General Update: Timmy’s Original and plans

No new brewday reports must signal that it’s time to start planning the next brew. We also need to plan keg and bottle capacity with the Christmas break in mind. It’s been a hectic year away from the Boxshed, and we’re looking forward to a nice chunk of downtime over the Christmas holiday. We’re plotting [...]

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General Brew Update: Boxshed Autumn Ale and Boxshed Dark Garden ’09

Just a quick update of various movements of beers between different buckets, kegs and bottles. It may not look much but then you didn’t have to clean the stone out of the bottles and kegs with a pipe brush and a hosepipe… The Boxshed Top Secret Autumn Ale finished secondary fermentation, dropping nice and clear. [...]

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Update #2: Boxshed Premium APA (and Boxshed Seasonal Stout)

Sorry for the lack of photos this time round - I must have mislaid my camera somewhere between the shed and the house – normal service resumed one day soon I’m sure. On 1st December we moved the Premium APA into secondary for a further week of fermentation and to drop clear before kegging. I tested the gravity [...]

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Update #2: Boxshed Seasonal Stout

After a week or so in primary, this impressive smelling stout was ready to be moved into secondary. I also wanted to take this opportunity to harvest that valuable liquid yeast, which by now had grown and taken over the bottom of the FV bucket, and which threatened to turn into The Magic Porridge Pot. [...]

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Update #3: Boxshed Best Bitter

This Best is now in cold conditioning in the Boxshed and looking in fine shape for some festive drinking. Here is a gallery explaining how things developed following the dry hops going in to the secondary. I’m hoping this will prove good enough to become a regular stock brew, and I’m definitely looking forward to drinking [...]

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