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After another night of frustrating bottling I need to invest in a bench capper. My two-lever capper is about 25 years old and it takes about 6 attempts to cap each bottle. I have some Amazon vouchers to use so going to treat myself. There are a few bench capper but with either mixed reviews...

Tomorrow I plan on christening my newly built mash tun. For the last year I've BIAB'd and had some excellent beers. I'm a bit unsure on the volumes of water to sparge with. I'll be aiming for 20l in the FV and will be using 4.65kg of grain. Aiming for a mash temperature of about 68 degrees...

Having sourced grain at very a reasonable price from a local brewery and the fact that the wife likes my beer so much it was time to brew again. This was my first recipe that wasn't copied from a book or forum and really just using up some left over small quantities of grain and hops I had in...

Earlier this year I was given a copy of Euan Ferguson's Craft Brew book. I'd already made the Hidden Agenda and Dale's Pale Ale both of which were really nice so tried the Brewfirst Caterpillar ale yesterday. Note that I haven't tried any of these beers off the shelf before - I just liked the...

Using my trusty BIAB setup I started AG#8 on Saturday morning. Didn't know what hops I was going to use when I started so this was made up on the go. Brought 26 litres of water to 70 degrees in the boiler and then added 5kg of Maris Otter. Mashed for 60 minutes at 66 degrees. Squeezed bag and...

Has anyone tried making the Brewdog Hop Fiction (recipe in DIY Dog). Had a bottle the other night and it was lovely. I have all the hops in for this one so might give it a go this weekend. The recipe has only 12.5g of Chinook adding at the start of the boil. The rest of the hops are added...

So whilst making a batch today all was going well. Using the Home Brew Company BIAB starter kit. All was going well, the mash had finished, boiler topped up to around 30 litres and turned back on to boil but after a while I realised the wort wasn't coming up to the boil and was stuck...

Currently just do BIAB at the moment but going to build a mash tun out of a cool box following the excellent instructions from the post by HisDudeness. Would a 32 litre coolbox be better than a 28 litre coolbox for a 23 litre batch? I'm just wondering if the extra headroom on the larger box...

Sunday was AG#6 (I think). Still using the trusty HBC BIAB start kit. I'd called by a Home Brew shop earlier in the week and stocked up on hops - Nelson Sauvin, Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo and Cascade. I knew I wanted to do something using Nelson Sauvin and was intending on doing a single hopped...

I bottled a batch of IPA on Sunday and have noticed lumps of something suspended in the bottles (see picture). They look like small clumps of something - they look a bit like sesame seeds. The batch was only a 10 litre batch and was fermented in a 25 litre FV. Not sure if that will have any...

OK folks after some inspiration here. Planning a brew day for either Sunday or Monday but indecisive as to what to brew so interested in your suggestions. I have the following hops/grain/yeast: Challenger (leaf) 30g Goldings (leaf) 25g Cascade (leaf) 65g Northern Brewer (leaf) 200g...

On Sunday night I tried to make a 10 litre brew using my HBC BIAB starter kit to see how quickly this could be done. I was hoping to do this in around 3 - 3.5 hours so I can use the evenings to do some brews. A 23 litre brew using this kit takes me about 5.5 hours and eats into the family...

Last week I was passing a not that local homebrew shop and amongst other things bought a sachet of dried yeast. When I got home I noticed it expired in November 2015. Do you think that this would be OK to use?

So Sunday was the brewday for my second BIAB batch. This time I was making an American Pale Ale using the Homebrew Company mash kit. This came with Maris Otter and Crystal Malt and Nugget, Chinook and Cascade Hops. I didn't really deviate from my first attempt (read about it here) because I'd...

Hi all, For Christmas the wife bought me a BIAB starter kit from the Home Brew Company. As this came with a mash kit I opted for the Exceedingly Good IPA: Citra. Sunday was my first AG brew. I've done a few kits with some success over the last 18 months so was looking forward to making my...

Hi folks, New to the forum. I've recently been given a Wilko starter kit and a can of Wilko Golden Lager. The lager has been in the bucket for almost two weeks and fermentation has finished. To try to get as clear a drink as possible I'm planning on adding finings and after reading...