Homebrew - King George Pilsner Ingredients 1lb German Pilsen Malt 8oz Carapils (Dextrine Malt) 3lb Light Dry Malt Extract 3lb Amber Liquid Malt Extract 0.5oz Northern Brewer Pellet Hops 0.75oz Kent Golding Pellet Hops 0.25oz Fuggle Pellet Hops 2 x Fermentis Saflager S-23 Dry Lager Yeast Method Ingredients: Brew: 11 Dec 2011, OG 1.052 Rack+Lager: 27 Dec 2011 [...]

Homebrew - Newcastle Brown Ale Clone In honor of my little brother coming to stay for Christmas I decided to clone his favorite beer. Everything went pretty smoothly on brew day but I tried to be as quick as I could because I wanted to also brew the Graff. I made a big starter for it [...]

Homebrew - Graff Graff is a kind of hybrid mix of beer and cider, I had been dying to make some of this ever since I heard about it. The description I have been going with is "slightly malty cider". The basic idea is to make a small amount of very lightly hopped [...]

Homebrew - Double IPA V2 In April we brewed a Double IPA that turned out very well. However at the time I made some notes about how to improve it. Fast forward 6 months of brewing and the it was time to take the challenge. Can I do it better? I sure as hell will [...]

Homebrew - Irish Red Ale Decided do brew on my birthday as a present to myself. Earlier in the month I used the Midwest Hombrewing Groupon to get some more equipment, it came with an Irish Red extract kit which I thought would be a relaxing brew to do. I also got a bunch of [...]

Homebrew - Simply Apple Cider As soon as I bottled the last hard cider I sanitized the carboy and started the next batch. Since making cider from juice is so easy I don't see why you wouldn't do them back to back like this. This time I bought 6 1.75 liter bottles of "Simply [...]

Homebrew - Fuller's ESB Clone Hot on the heels of the London Pride clone I decided to do our other favorite Fuller's beer, their ESB. I brewed while watching Virginia Tech play away and this turned out to be pretty easy to handle. I did let the water get hotter than the steeping temperature of [...]

Homebrew - Home Made Hard Cider The two ciders made from concentrate turned out pretty well but I had read on the internet that people had success using store-bought apple juice. Our local organic food shop sells apple juice in nice one gallon glass jugs. I thought we could just ferment a couple of those in [...]

Homebrew - Fuller's London Pride Clone After getting back from England I had a serious hankering for some English beer. I found out that Austin Homebrew Supply has a massive database of clone recipes you can buy. Hilariously all of the 12 ounce bottles we use are imported London Pride from England so I thought we [...]

Homebrew - Hoppy to be Gluten-Free Pale Ale When Kevin recently joined the ranks of friends who are gluten intolerant we decided to try and brew something for him. This was a total experiment so we only did a 3 gallon brew in our glass carboy. I found a recipe online and scaled the ingredients. We brewed this [...]

Homebrew - American Pale Ale This was the last kit we had not done from our local organic food shop, the only place in town for homebrew supplies. Looking at the ingredients we were expecting something similar to their English PA kit. Ingredients: American Pale Ale, Extract kit from Brewer's Best Brew: [...]

Homebrew - Whiteley Series Double IPA This was a $70 kit which raised a few eyebrows but after doing a few semi hoppy beers I really wanted to kick it up a notch. Googling led me to people raving about the hops in this kit so I had to give it a try. Our friends Andy [...]

Homebrew - Archer's Orchard Traditional Hard Cider We got double the apple juice concentrate from the online store so we re-sterilized the carboy as soon as we bottle the first batch and went again. We could have pitched on to the old yeast cake but we did not know how well that would work so we just [...]

Uncompression error with KVM Linux machines When installing Linux as a VM on KVM I kept getting this error for some installs: uncompression error -- System halted The reason was the kernel being installed on an LVM partition. Setting the system up with /boot and / as real partitions fixed this problem. [...]

Homebrew - Archer's Orchard Traditional Hard Cider This cider was made from apple juice concentrate. You add water to the juice and heat it up a bit to combine them. You never actually boil it, just get it hot enough to mix. We bought a glass carboy to experiment in so we scaled the recipe to 2.5 [...]

Enabling ATI TV Out in Linux My brother asked me for help enabling TV out on an Ubuntu Maverick laptop. Googling finds lots of people having trouble with this so I have written about my solution. The big gotcha was you can't use S-Video without first disabling the VGA output. jon@Ubuntu:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current [...]

Homebrew - English Pale Ale This was our third brew and we were feeling pretty confident now. Ingredients: English Pale Ale, Extract kit from Brewer's Best Brew: 12 Mar 2011 Bottle: 27 Mar 2011 (15) Ready: 10 Apr 2011 (14) Summary: [...]

Homebrew - Continental Pilsner Gemma bought this kit and didn't know that lager would need lower temperatures than the ale we did. With Virginia warming up rapidly we were worried about getting this to work out. I thought I had killed the yeast by pitching them before the wort had cooled enough but following [...]

Gig List 12/02/11 : Amos' Southend (Charlotte, NC) Whitechapel The Acacia Strain Veil Of Maya Chelsea Grin I Declare War [...]

10 year revamp of matthewgrove.co.uk Website redesign After 10 years of matthewgrove.co.uk looking the same I decided to redo it. Here are some old screen grabs for prosperity. You can click the image to get a full size version in all it's glory. 2001 2004 2007 [...]