To begin with, let me say that if you are not interested in making a session ale, no need to read this post. A session ale, as served in English pubs, is a relatively low-alcohol beer intended to see you through the evening. Meaning you can have a few pints and still get on the tube (mind the gap). ...

If you go where the pros do it, it is the best smell in the world this time of year.

Drinking my #1323 Innkeeper, a Northern Brewer clone of Timothy Taylor's Landlord bitter (CAMRA beer of the year). At 16 days in bottle, it is a good example of an English bitter. Definitely a session ale at 4.3 ABV.

When I have had bottles covered with white film after cleaning with Oxiclean in hard water, I had to remove it with CLR solution. Others have said that they removed it with vinegar or Star-San solution.

Thank you Louie

Continuing a thread from Over Yonder, these photos show how Oxiclean behaves in hard water. In each of them, 1 teaspoon of Oxiclean is dissolved in half a wine bottle of water. One is in hard water (45 grains hardness) and one is in soft water. The precipitate that causes the white film on bottles f...

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Just over from the other side, I am a relatively newcomer to Mr. Beer brewing. But after my son gave me a MrB kit, I was off and running with 30 batches this year. Actually, I have been brewing off and on since 1969 when my brother and I made some pretty bad beers using Blue Ribbon malt extract and ...