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Electric MacButters:
My reccomendation on pumpkin ale: go easy on the allspice. Don't be afraid to taste the pumpkin. I don't know if my tastebuds are wierd, but it seems like every pumpkin beer I have ever tasted, be it macro or micro brewed, tastes like someone poured an entire bottle of that dang spice into the batch and called it good.
The beer I'm pining for is my last batch of Nut Brown Ale. We made it on a whim in June and it was quite enjoyable until it went skunky. Although a this date an Oatmeal Stout would finish fermenting just in time for the tail end of Fall...
DominicJ:
I'm awaiting Amazons painfully slow Super Saver delivery to deliver my first two home brewing books, starting wine, and 130 wine receipes both by CJJ Berry.
Birthday is 14th of Novemeber, so will be buying kit then, and will, with a bit of luck, be getting smashed on christmas day on my own produce. Unless we go to my girlfriends families house, in which case I'll probably have to get really drunk.
Maybe I'll upgrade to all grain for next year, but its a bit expensive for me at the moment really, bills keep getting in the way.
Paynesgrey:
Wine usually takes quite a bit longer than beer to ferment, and it also requires at least a few months to settle and age a little. So you might want to make some ale for christmas. Wheras beer is beer in a week, and needs a few days after bottling to get a decent head. A few weeks aging is nice, but none of mine's ever lasted that long I'm afraid...
DominicJ:
Sorry it was just me being opaque as usual.
Wine books are on order, equipment for beer and wine will be bought 6 weeks before christmas, which is a reasonable amount of time for a couple of brews, one matured 5 weeks in the bottle, another 4 weeks, ect.
Paynesgrey:
--- Quote from: DominicJ on September 20, 2011, 11:35:54 AM ---Sorry it was just me being opaque as usual.
Wine books are on order, equipment for beer and wine will be bought 6 weeks before christmas, which is a reasonable amount of time for a couple of brews, one matured 5 weeks in the bottle, another 4 weeks, ect.
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Ah, I thought you were going to hope to have some wine ready for Christmas. But ales? 4 or 5 weeks is plenty of time for them to hit their prime.
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