Recent content by JulesSeddo

Thanks folks - I'll bottle asap!

Hi Folks, this is my first post for some time so go gentle on me…! My query is whether or not I should be concerned about still having positive airlock pressure after nearly 3 weeks of fermentation? Background is I’m brewing my first all grain beer in 10 years and am a bit rusty. I have...

Greg, how did you get your hands on some malting barley seed? I note you're in the Bathust area - are there seed suppliers nearby or did you have direct farming contact?

That's what I had in mind as the area I have a the moment isn't big enough to supply each years pale malt requirements (not that I make that much but even 2 or 3 brews is 10-15kg). I was thinking of a small area in the garden to supply enough for making some medium and dark malts as additions to...

True. My approach will be to plant more than I need also to set my cat loose - He'll be happy to spend hours chasing off seed theives! By the way - what sort of area did you try to grow?

I was involved in some ecological research in this approach to crop pests - we looked at decoy rice crops in SE Asia to attract rats. The idea is to plant the decoy crop so it ripens earlier than the main crop. You then trap intensively around the decoy crop to reduce pest numbers. Birds my not...

Loved the old posts thanks - I haven't read the main article referred to yet but I will. Good to see some others have been thinking along the same lines as myself. I'm surprised by the nay sayers though. If too hard, too much time, not enough consistency in results were to put us off we...

Anyone out there tried to grow and malt their own barley in a backyard or a small property? Looks like commercial barley growers get something like 1000kg per hectare so I figure I'd need about 100 sqr m to get about 10kg (enough for say 2 x 20L brews). The malting sounds a bit more difficult...

I've got hop envy! Mine are first year 'Precoce de Bourgogne' - freebees from Colin at BrewYourOwnAtHome Grow Baby, GROW!