I am enjoying an Irish Coffee following a tasting session.

Some of my first ever brew using dry grains (combined with LME): Irish Stout. You aren't missing much by way of appearance as there is low carbonation with barely any head. Happy with the mouthfeel and taste though. The bottles were better at 3-4 weeks and encouraging. This mini-keg is only 6...

Some of my Italian Rose wine. Happy New Year!

I still haven't decided between Stout or Porter. But it will be my first batch using dry grains. Nothing too ambitious this is going to be a transitional phase combining with some tins of Cooper's Dark LME then take it from there. Favourite is stout and I have two recipes in the books I picked...

I used my refractometer just ONCE

I haven't had time to read all the posts after the first page but you stuck at it and you are still here. Keep tasting (it was an important job in medieval times) and taking notes (written as well as mental). Even if you do not like the beer at all you will still learn some more. But I do hope...

I got my Christmas Ruby Ale started.

'After that gravity does it's thing.' I notice that every time I look down.

Haha of course - I wasn't thinking. Glen Marnoch (produced for Aldi). I haven't rated all those in that range highly but this one is pretty good. Just had a dental op in hospital earlier today so abstaining tonight.

Islay Single Malt Scotch - very peaty and smoky :)

Bottling some Medium Dry Italian Rose wine. @Craigerrr But beyond a flat tyre, I probably wouldn't have a clue what might be wrong with anybody's car.

Congratz, nice to have some good news.

Ruby Port

Afraid I cannot put off bottling my English Barley Wine even though I am definitely not in the mood. Got some mould off okay and doesn't appear to be anything else wrong. Thankfully most of it was on the muslin hop bag but it had started 72-48 hours ago whilst hydrometer readings were showing...

Guinness (draught) and Boddington's (creamflow) both introduced widgets in cans. I am not sure who did it first though.