Black Rock East India Pale Ale by mud @ 03, May 2010
recipe 1.1l Blonde Black Rock Malt extract 1.5l Black rock East India Pale Ale 250g Crystal Grain 1kg Coopers Dextrose 15g Goldings 6.5% Finishing Hops 50g Mt Hood 5.3% Hop Pellets 1pkt Muntons Premium Gold active Yeast 1 pkt Black rock Yeast Starter og 1060 fg 1018 abv 5.6% The frementation gave me a hard time taking 12 days in total 22-25C being maintained. Bottles have now had 2 weeks secondary fermentation the early results look very promissing, a very pronounced alcohol front taste which developes into an easy pale ale no real bitterness that was expected but will make a great winters ale, definitly not a summer session beer.

TCB Wetpak - Old Porter by Mud @ 07, Apr 2010
No deviation from the instructions, very little clean up...the "paint can " wort has made an excellent lime catcher...but the taste and aroma is great.... it has all of the choc caramel expected and does make for excellent drinking...now I need an excuse for an open fire and dark choc.

Coopers India Pale Ale (IPA) by Mud @ 16, Mar 2010
Using the recipe in issue 9 OF bEER & bREWER WINTER 2009 i CHOOSE COOPERS IPA WITH BREWCRAFT PRODUCTS TO PROVIDE THE BLACKROCK LIQUID MALT EXTRACT(AMBER i CHOOSE WOULD WORK WITH BLONDE) 500G DEXTROSE 30GM CASCADE HOPS AND SAFALE SO4 HOPS(YEAST STARTER 2 DAYS PRIOR. yEAST PITCHED AT 21C . tHE RECIPE SUGGESTS 2 MONTHS IN BOTTLE...AFTER I MONTH I HAVE CONVERTED NON IPA DRINKERS WITH THIS BREW.. WILL GO FOR DOUBLE IPA NEXT...STILL HAVE HOPZILLA IN MY SIGHTS.

Muntons Wheat Beer by mud @ 24, Feb 2010
Muttons wheat brew with 500g brewamster wheat sray malt corriander seeds crushed and orange rind wirh safale so4 yeast piched at 26c( did yeast starter with 500g malt extract 3 days prior) needed to be left for 10 days in brew vessel brew 23 litres bottled 20 litres . Tasted fantastic after 3 days...very surprising ...brewed DEc 2009 now Feb 2010 VG will recommend to others and have changed many friends view of wheat and home brews

Muntons IPA Bitter by Mud @ 24, Feb 2010
Nov 2009, Mixed Muttons IPA with Brewmaster English ale pack, very easy drinking with med hop bitterness. used directions on brewmaster pack yeast pitched at 26c, took 4 weeks before showing full character.