Recent content by samwise

I have 3 brews sitting in secondary at the moment. I opened them up 24 hours ago to add isinglass finings before I rack off into cornies and carbonate. Beers looked great yesterday when adding the finings, but two of them look like they could be infected now. One in particular has a noticeable...

Having bought myself a few corny kegs I'm now getting together everything else I need to dispense beer from them. Their first use will be at a party this summer so I want to make sure I get my setup right. I have everything sorted now apart from the line between the keg and my dalex flow...

Will be buying from either the Malt MIller of the Homebrew Company. Depends which one has everything I want at the best price. I do like dark ales, but as I'm new to AG I want to brew a few different beers using basic malts and experimenting a bit with the hops and yeasts so I can see how they...

I've finished building my AG set up (Will put up some pics the the equipment section later). Now though I need to plan some brews so I can get a big order of supplies in. I'm wanting to do a big-ish order so I only pay the postage once. I've got about £60 to spend. So far I'm leaning towards...

Mine was waiting for me when I got home from work this evening. Thanks Vossy. :cheers:

Splitting the wort to aid pouring sounds like a good plan. I think I will be doing that. I'm looking at sources for all my plumbing bits and pieces. Trying to find where I can get everything the cheapest. I think I might just end up picking everything up locally though, because what I might...

Thanks for the comments. I will be adding a hole to the stock pot for a hop strainer, through a tank connector with another ball valve on the outside. For insulating the mash tun we've somehow acquired an abundance of duvets which we can wrap it up in. I could even put it in the small...

I'm planning on moving to AG brewing and want to check a few things before I start getting things together to build my kit. I'm going to be doing 23 litre brew lengths. So far I've decided on a 50 litre stainless stock pot for my HLT/Boiler. I just don't like the idea of a plastic bucket full...

The temperature rating for those tipes of sprinklers is indeed the external temperature required to activate them. The activation is a one time affair though. Theres a small glass vial that keeps the valve in the closed position. Inside the vial is a liquid which boils at a certain temperature...

Excellent. I have all my answers now. Lets see how it goes. Thanks very much for all your help.

Ok I'll leave it a few days before I bottle it. I'm going away from Friday till Sunday so I think it will have to wait till after work on Monday. Is it worth adding a little yeast to the cider before I leave so it has something to carbonate with once bottled? I'm talking a very small amount.

No I didn't taste it before I added the campden. Just had a little sip of it now though, and while it didn't taste great it definitely wasn't vinegar like. Seeing as I've already killed any of the bacteria off I'm just going to prime and bottle. I think I'll have another go at a cider from...

Well I've racked it off into a thoroughly cleaned and sterilised FV, leaving the last two inches. All the white film stuck to the sides on the way down and I don't think any was transfered. I bunged a load of campden into it. Going to make up a small batch of a yeast starter, then prime and...

Good day all. I need some advise on my cider homebrew. It's made from 12 liters of home juiced apples and 10 liters of shop bought juice. I put in 3 teaspoons of campden powder to kill off the nasties, then left it a day. I added a pack of champagne yeast and let it ferment for 2 weeks. During...

It's coming round to bottling time for a Coopers pilsner kit I've done. In fact I'd like to bottle tomorrow or friday. I'm wondering if I should re-pitch a small quantity of a yeast starter to get it to carbonate. The pilsner spent 2 weeks in the primary FV in a fridge at 12C. Then it had a 2...