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It's been about six months since my last brew so going to squeeze in 2 today! 1st mash is currently going, it's an imperial stout though it is a bit risky as I have no idea what the grain bill is, I bought the grain about 4 months ago from get we brewed custom kits, it was never used due to...

Just wondering if anyone in belfast would be interested in bottle swaps? Would be interesting to hear other people's opinions on what I'm brewing.

Random question, but as a background, I found 4 bottles of westmalle dubbel out in the shed last week. Out of date in 2014, had 2 tonight with a bottle of the same stuff that was in date. Honestly the difference was unreal, the out of date stuff was far better, far more complex flavours, in...

Evening all, quick question, I done a 3 kit imperial stout as an experiment, 2 coopers stout and 1 coopers lager with 500g muscovado and 500g brown sugar and a tin of treacle to 22l, got an og of 1094. It's been fermenting about a month, was gonna put it in a youngs pressure barrel I have...

Sorry I'm back with more problems, my first brew in my ace boiler was a beer from Brooklyn brew shop book called new year beer, a kinda Belgian ale. I thought everything went well, mash temps were fine. ingredients were Pilsner Wheat Caralight Caramunich Candi sugar Coriander seeds and...

Ok so I am relatively new to all grain, prob 4/5 months after doing kits for the past 3 years. Was doing small batch 1 gallon brews until my ace boiler came at Xmas! In my eagerness I bought loads of grain and hops, have used as I needed and made some nice stuff,some not so nice. My last 2...

Just about to put a coffee and donut porter into a easy keg, has been sitting at 20c last 3 weeks, however it looks like the pics below. Does this look infected?? I brewed a chocolate maple porter back in august, drank it last weekend, bland and a sour aftertaste so think I may have a...

Hi everyone, Looking some guidance on 2 problems, firstly, bottled up a batch of peanut butter porter I made. It was a small batch biab, only got about 3 and a half litres. Spent two weeks in demijohn the bottled today. Stupidly never took a fg until I'd bottled 6 500ml bottles, og was 1074...

Just wondering if anyone could help, done my first biab last week after a few years doing kits. It was only a 1 gallon batch of stout and all seemed to go well, it's still in Demi John but seems ok. Yesterday however I tried my second biab, again 1 gallon. About 30 mins into my mash my...

Hi all Got myself a coppers starter kit and started last week with the lager. Mixed everything as instructed in packaging, brewed it short to 21L, used coopers brew enhancer 1. Had an OG of 1043, it's been 6 days today and Gravity was 1015. Planning on leaving it 2 weeks before bottling...