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On @dave_77 's recommendation I've subscribed to Hop Control, the online hop analysis tool (Not sure that's the right description). It's a bit of an eye opener and on initial testing I think it's going to be useful. In summary you enter your OG, volume and hop schedule and it tells you what the...

Smacked this at 3:30 this aft, still flat at quarter to nine. No point pitching it is there ?

The Biere de Guarde was finishing carbonation and I was wondering where I could put it to lager for a few months. My beer fridge/freezer is full and I didn't want to sacrifice the brewfridge for that long. So there was only one solution... A shiney new fridge :cool:. That should do it. Had...

Has anyone got one/can recommend one? I'd like to be able to check the SRM of beers and lagers. I had a look on Amazon and when I searched for "Beer colour chart" it wasn't really helpful and included this interesting article (I've done the censoring not Amazon). Dissolvable Swim Trunks Prank...

I've seen Greg Hughes mentioned a few times on here, checked out my brewing books and it turns out I have it :D. So I had a look through the recipes. Has anyone tried the Cornish Tin Miner's Ale or the Spring Beer (as its getting Springish) ?

I've been researching Biere de Guarde for the beer swap and there are three sub-styles - blonde, amber and brown (blonde, ambree, brune). So which one to brew ? I need to do a test. I thought about the at the factory Guinness thread where the discussion led me to the conclusion that Guinness is...

An interesting experience. I expected to learn a lot and I did. Overall the day went well, probably better than expected as there were no major events :D. I couldn't decide if I wanted the BZ on the desk or floor and then realised the best height for me would be inbetween so I put it on a...

Heads up for the January comp. I'll probably start the judging on Saturday the 10th Feb. PM me for address. Cheers,

Unusually not a question but information some might find useful. Conscious it might be old news for some. Assembled some new party dispensers for my corny kegs as I'm putting them back into service and when I tested them they leaked from between the spring loaded thing and the body... Most...

Did a quick stock check as I was thinking of doing a use-it-up brew and I've got some Munich and some Munich I. I did some inconclusive googling but I think :- Munich = Munich I = Munich Light and Munich II = Munich Dark Correct ?

I'd like to be accurate with boil-off so I know if the pre-boil SG is right or not. I've been fiddling with the brewday settings in the recipe app but its guesswork. I'm thinking of sticking 10 litres of water in the boiler and running it for an hour an measuring it, would that be accurate with...

Saw a few mentions of Italian lager on here which I hadn't thought of as a 'thing' (even though I drink it 🤔) so I've done some digging. It doesn't appear to be a recognised style (at least in the 2023 style guidelines) but doing some googling it seems that it is a dry hopped lager referred to...

I'm making a lager following the brulosohy lager method - initial fermentation at lager temp then raise temperature to complete fermentation. It spent 6 days at 10c and was fermenting nicely, had a bit of a mishap with the brewfridge which meant it spent a few hours at 16 when fermentation went...

My next brew I'm planning is an 80 bob. For no reason beyond I've heard of it I was thinking of modelling it on Belhaven 80 bob. On their website it says it uses pale and black malts, in a couple of books they reckon it also has crystal and one says chocolate. I like the simplicity of just the...

Used S-04 for the first time this week in a best bitter. Impressed so far. Pitched on Thursday, rolling fermentation with a 1 inch krausen 24 hours later and nearly finished today. I was worried it was going to volcano but it didn't. Well behaved yeast. I'm tempted to start cold crashing it...

No, not at the back of the freezer, actually growing in someone's garden. I was at someone's house who lives local and went through their back garden carrying stuff to the car when my nose picked up the what I thought was the smell of hops. I asked 'You don't have hops do you ?" and she said...

I use an old version of BrewMate as my recipe tool and do BIAB. I tend to overshoot the calculated OG and either live with it or dilute back. So I decided to see what efficiency I actually got with my last two brews. Turns out they were 92 and 93%, the program default is 70%. I don't think its...

Made myself a boiler controller thing. Its a Raspberry pi controlling a 30 amp relay with a temperature probe. The buttons are 3D printed with capacitance switches on the inside of the box. It has settings for strike, mash and chill temperatures and boil time. Tested it yesterday and it works as...

First one of these I've done I think. Made an Allendale Pennine Pale clone. Main ingredients were Golden Promise, Vienna and Munich malts, Cascade, Columbus and Citra hops. I can post details if anyone wants. I'm doing 30 minute mash and boils at the moment. Target OG was 1.047 but actual was...

I was stocking up at the local HBS on friday and spotted they had Pilgrim and Progress hops, obviously I bought them. So I'm going to make a Pilgrim and Progress brew and call it something to do with Chaucer. All I need now is a recipe :-)