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An Overlooked Cause For Infections

We highlight an overlooked source of infection when making beer and wine.  Read on to find out how these common kitchen cleaning items can cause an infection when brewing beer...

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Make Beer At Home

Making Beer At Home is a great way to keep the brain active. Learning how to brew beer at home, learning about the ingredients, learning different techniques to make beer,...

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Using Spent Grains to Make Bird Feeders

Use spent grains from all grain brewing to make lard bird feeders.

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Malteser CheeseCake Recipe

Malteser Cheese Cake Recipe This is one of my favourite deserts to make if I am expecting guests for dinner. With so much delicious flavours of maltesers, but not too...

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Converting a S30 King Keg Cap to CO2 Cartridges

A Hambleton Bard / Brewgas S30/L30 CO2 gas cylinder refill is very hard to buy, so convert your king keg cap to take CO2 cartridges with controllable gas injection.

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Adding Body To Beer with Maltodextrin

Use maltodextrin to add body, mouth feel and head retention to beers without adding flavour or sweetness.  How much maltodextrin to use for different beer styles.  When to add maltodextrin...

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How Much Priming Sugar To Use When Bottling Beer

Knowing how much sugar to add to a bottle of homebrew beer to get the right amount of fizz is a bit of an experiment at first, but here is...

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New Beaverdale Design & Special Offer

Beaverdale wine kits have a new look, so we have a special offer.  Order now and if we send you the old design, you'll get up to £10 in store...

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