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{"id":5372,"date":"2021-02-07T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T10:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2021-02-13T17:47:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T17:47:49","slug":"homebrewing-in-the-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/07\/homebrewing-in-the-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrewing in the lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The travelling restrictions, or lockdown, needed to reduce contagion of CV-19 is having a detrimental effect on my homebrewing as I need to travel over to Fratton to collect ingredients, travel which is hard to justify as &#8220;essential&#8221;. Thankfully, before the current lockdown I was able to get to <a href=\"http:\/\/getbrewing.uk\">GetBrewing.UK <\/a>, in Fratton, and buy sufficient ingredients for 4 brews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember the delicious taste of Gales HSB from the Horse and Jockey, Curbridge, where I remember spending  many a lunchtime while working for Digital at the Solent Business Park, so I thought I&#8217;d give the recipe for Gale&#8217;s HSB a go and try to recreate that taste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fruits of my labour are now ready to drink, well, at least the first batch is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fullers bought Gales brewery a few years back and since then HSB never really tasted as good as I remember, but it&#8217;s still good. There are a number of recipes available on line, I used the one from Graham Wheelers book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fermentation was with Empire yeast at 19C for a full three weeks then kegged and left to condition. I left it 5 weeks to condition before sampling it. It was really tasty, but more than 2 glasses leave me with a bit of a dull head. After 3 glasses I have found that my tongue stops working properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_20210131_172646515.jpeg\" alt=\"Homebrew HSB\" class=\"wp-image-5371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_20210131_172646515.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_20210131_172646515-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Although a little cloudy at first it soon cleared up and is really tasty. I&#8217;ve made three 2 gallon batches and will definitely brew more once the current lockdown is relaxed and I can get over to <a href=\"http:\/\/getbrewing.uk\">GetBrewing.UK<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I will be leaving the remaining two kegs longer to condition in order to help the initial clarity. I might experiment with the next brew by adding in just a little more hops to give it more of a fruity bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Update 9th Feb<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Disaster. It&#8217;s all gone. Well, the first keg full is. I can&#8217;t find any sign of a leak; Fiona has not been helping herself to it. Damn! I guess I should be brewing 5 gallon batches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The travelling restrictions, or lockdown, needed to reduce contagion of CV-19 is having a detrimental effect on my homebrewing as I need to travel over to Fratton to collect ingredients, travel which is hard to justify as &#8220;essential&#8221;. Thankfully, before the current lockdown I was able to get to GetBrewing.UK , in Fratton, and buy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/07\/homebrewing-in-the-lockdown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrewing in the lockdown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}