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Cider Making – Strange gravity

I am making some cider at the moment. I have approximately 10 gallons (50 litres) brewing away. The juice was part of a bulk order from the nearby Millets farm which was split amongst members of our Oxford Brewing Group. There is no recipe to speak of… basically I made some dried wine yeast (10 [...]

October 7, 2007 В· The Abingdon Drinker В· No Comments
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Experimental Double Batch Brew

After reading an article in the Craft Brewing Association‘s magazine Brewer’s Contact which indicated that beer that is sparged too much may have some off tastes, I decided to try a bit of an experiment. The plan was to collect two seperate runnings from the sparge, dilute the first runnings to match the second, and [...]

June 1, 2007 В· The Abingdon Drinker В· One Comment
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Wild Hop Beer

In January 2007 I brewed a beer using the wild hops I had harvested in the autumn. it was intended to be a basic bitter/ESB so that I could evaluate the character of the wild hops. To complicate things, this was the first brew I did since we had our kitchen redone, and there were [...]

June 1, 2007 В· The Abingdon Drinker В· No Comments
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Wild Hops

Last autumn I harvested some wild hops that I found growing locally to use when brewing my beer. The hops were found growing along the path between South Abingdon and Sutton Courtney. Here is a link to a google map somewhere near where I found them. They were picked on 27th September 2006 and dried [...]

June 1, 2007 В· The Abingdon Drinker В· No Comments
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