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I bought about a meter square sheet of muslin for use in mashing. Anyone give me any tips on cleaning it? It looks a little fragile, so I'm concerned about a washing machine pulling it too pieces, but drying it out and then picking all the little bits of barley husk off it is a little bit of a...

I used Sainsbury's carbonated spring water bottles £1.40 for 6x500ml

I'm in. I love free things.

I've been doing small batches and I usually split the yeast packet too, put it in the fridge, and use the other half of it for another batch a week later.

Well, to be honest, though I've been using English Hops, I'm still going for big hop pales mostly. Choice of hops is down to wanting more locally sourced ingredients and the fact that a bunch of hops are available on special at my local brewshop for £1 for 100g. There's no subtlety in my made...

If you use beer enhancer, you use it to replace sugar, so 1Kg of beer enhancer in place of 1Kg of sugar.

It's got to the point where I'm only buying ingredients based on the fact that I can make a video game or pop culture reference based on their names.

Brew enhancer is a mix of brewing sugar (corn sugar/dextrose, chemically simpler than cane/table sugar) and Spray Malt (also called Dried malt extract or DME), which is a dried out powered form of more of what you got in the tin.

I was going to add that the yeast was S04. Slid: Thanks, yes, I'm suffering slightly from the noob brewer's lack of patience. The only thing that makes me feel better about it is that since I first posted to this forum about a week ago, I've seen three or four even newer members suffering...

1, I did suck start the first three batches I bottled. No problems, possibly due in part by a thorough rinse with Colgate Plax TM immediately before hand. It does annoy me that I didn't realize it can be done without suck starting or anything other than just the pipe though, and since noone has...

Yeah, I'm mostly making up the recipes as I go along, so I get to make up my own stupid names for the beers...

I've been making up beer recipes from scratch a bit in order to learn the ropes and one of my early attempts has come out over-strong (7-8%+) and is refusing to carbonate. When you get too strong for the yeast, does it stop working or just die out? If it's just stopped working, then could I...

This is slightly off topic, but I've set up a spreadsheet to help control my spending (and when I say control, I mean prevent). Basically, I log everything I spend on both equipment and ingredients. Then I divide that by the number of bottles drunk. Because I'm a noob still I've only drunk 14...

I've mostly been trying to brew heavily single hopped Pales so far, but I used Bramling Cross hops and the aroma came out very orange, so I thought that might make for a good low ABV hopped mead. Question is about the boil... The boil basically does three thing reasons, extract bitterness...

Yeah, I brew this way with a 6L stock pot, no problem. There's a few good ideas in this piece I'm going to apply though - in particular, putting the mash tun in the oven. I can't believe I didn't think of that before.

Thanks everyone. One thing I didn't mention that is on my side is that I was actually doing only a partial mash, about 50% of the sugar was added afterwards as light spray malt, so there should be plenty of fermentables in there regardless. The first ever batch I did was a Brooklyn...

Hello, I'm pretty new to this beer brewing lark and I'm looking for some advice/reassurance for a couple of batches I have on the way that I'm concerned about (I'm brewing single Gallon batches, so I can do weekly brew days and experiment a bit more with making up my own recipes). Firstly, I...

I'm super new to this but my favorite thing I've bought is a digital thermometer. But I guess I should put Star San on the shopping list straight away. Slid... Just out of interest, did you get that stock pot from a store or from the net? I've seen large stock pots on Wilco's website but not...