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Turned out nice! Slightly ginger aroma. Subtle herbal flavour. Recommended recipe. Will likely brew this again.

Cheers Andy!

well so far so good. bottled on NYE & still untouched! beginning to clear nicely after a cloudy start. Fingers remain crossed :)

Will do. Just bottled it up this eve & will give it a few weeks to condition. Fingers crossed!

For my first ever homebrew attempt (well, aside from a failed apple juice cider many years ago) I'm trying the bay & rosemary ale from Andy H's book. Scaled back ingredients to give me approx 7l liquid in my fermenter. Been going for 11d now. Not far off bottle time once gravity readings flatten...

missy wrote:some good ideas on this site; http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-i ... gardening/

you've just subjected my girlfriend to months of me bringing junk home to tinker with!

boboff wrote:Growing in Small Spaces 1 – Garden Shelves. By Dave Hamilton

haha! I did see that too, thanks!

thanks to everyone for the responses.

I'd be very interested to hear more about the Japanese 'active bacteria' method (if anyone can provide a link/name!)

Cheers again!

haha! i like the idea of an apple-producing stick.

i was thinking of growing some peas up a wall trellis

thanks for that pumpy!

Alas, it's concrete-coated, so unfortunately it's one big slab!

some really interesting and useful tips there, too.

i was thinking maybe trying to grow beetroot as they're a fairly shallow veg (with edible leaves). any experience growing these?

thanks again!

Hi all, My and my partner will be moving from our city centre flat to a house in the suburbs. this comes with a very small south east facing backyard and we're excited about being able to venture outside for a change! does anyone have any tips or suggestions for crop-growing in small, concrete-paved...

off to glastonbury next month and being an idiot, last year i decided we should all take a bottle of homebrew. having largely forgotten i am relying on a cheeky turbo cider here's my credit cruch tramp recipe: into 1 demijohn add some cheap apple juice throw in some wine yeast and an undetermined am...

i was rather generous with my additions...
gut- and tooth-rot!

@thefriarandme - thanks for the tip from a fellow Liverpudlian!

will give that a bash...

i wonder if the inevitable acid of my scrumpy will suffice...?!

i didn't see it on CH4 though did go to a screening with the director last year (I was based in University of Liverpool's Marine Biology unit). I thought it was a very good film and highlighted a lot of the issues very well. In the post-film chat though he did seem to disregard a lot of important is...

currently making scrumpy to Andy's recipie (to the letter) so hopefully it'll be ready for festival season. hopefully it will be an improvement on last year's batch which tasted not unlike acidic hell... i also tried out the wine from the 'taking the fear out of winemaking' posts. certainly an acqui...