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Hi from Bedford

Post by blacktip » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:24 pm

Hi all,

I've been making some lazy (read Festa) homebrew and have made a few extract kits over the last couple of years. While I love beer, my body only lets me drink it in limited quantities these days. Due to this, I strive to get the most flavour out of each brew.

All of my brews have centred around being a hophead. A black IPA, a Festa kit with a boil of extra hops and grapefruit peel, and an extract kit with some citra hops and lemon peel for a "bright" finish. In my opinion, it's fine to add citrus to a beer when you're making, but not once it's done ;)

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Re: Hi from Bedford

Post by mr x » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:29 pm

:welcome:

How did you find the forum?
At Alexander Keith's we follow the recipes first developed by the great brewmaster to the absolute letter. :wtf:

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Post by blacktip » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:35 pm

I think it was via an article in The Coast, in relation to the annual brewing contest. Maybe. I spend entirely too much time on the internet, so it's hard to say. :)

Oh, I should have mentioned that I do a bit of electronics work too, so I have plans for a lagering chamber of some sort, either with an Arduino or a RaspberryPi running the temperature control and graphing.
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Re: Hi from Bedford

Post by LiverDance » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:40 pm

:welcome:
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.

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Re: Hi from Bedford

Post by mr x » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:48 pm

The lagering chamber will be of interest here. :thumbup:
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Re: Hi from Bedford

Post by LeafMan66_67 » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:58 pm

:welcome:
"He was a wise man who invented beer." - Plato

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Post by akr71 » Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:53 pm

:welcome:
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Re: Hi from Bedford

Post by chalmers » Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:41 pm

Welcome aboard! Plenty of hopheads on here (myself included).

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Re: Hi from Bedford

Post by Araxi » Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:58 pm

:welcome:

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Post by jeffsmith » Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:33 pm

:welcome:

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Post by HappyHopper » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:00 pm

Lager chamber..... Your in!
In bottle:Up the Kriek without a mash paddle, (insert Witty name)pumpkin lambic

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Beer Laid To Rest (brewed it, drank it, loved it)Malt-n-lava AIPA, Single hop Citra pale ale, Belgian Blond, deforestation Ale Spruce Rye IPA,

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Re: Hi from Bedford

Post by 2Hands-1Mouth » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:53 pm

hey welcome to the forum. I'm in bedford too. and I like hops too. small world. lol

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Re: Hi from Bedford

Post by adams81 » Mon Apr 15, 2013 4:03 pm

Welcome!

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Re: Hi from Bedford

Post by Tony L » Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:07 pm

:welcome:

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