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Quick query, anyone here attempt the Pliney the Elder clone from the aforementioned book? Just ordered the recipe pick 'n mix style from geterbrewed and it came to £30. This will be the most expensive beer I've brewed in my 3 years of brewing. :whistle: If you have, how did it turn out...

Folks, so I dropped my regulator and the non-return screw-in bit snapped off. Lesson learned, I've got the canister on a chain now. However, I need a new reg. See quite a few on the bay but I don't want to wait for them to come from China. Anyone got a good recommendation for a cheap-ish...

Seen this done a few times and rather liked it. Instead of multiple brew threads I'm just going to keep my logs here. Today's brew was the American Stout by Greg Hughes from the bible. It called for Amarillo hops which unfortunately I was out of so subbed Centennial instead. Target was...

Got a corny with around 15L of beer left that I want to swap to bottles. How is best to do this? I force carbed the beer at around 20 PSI for a week. Considering purging the co2 from the keg and letting the beer warm, bringing the co2 out of the beer. Then I guess purge again then bottle the...

Wife wanted to learn about making All Grain with me so I decided to do a Clibit SMASH. http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=51779 So, recipe was as follows; 1kg MO 5g Mosiac @ 60 10g Mosiac @ 15 10g Mosiac @ FO Bottled after 10 days or so and left in bottle for...

Looking for a replacement for my electrim boiler. For some reason tonight mid boil it cuts out and refuses to turn back on. Power is going to the controller and the orange and green lights come on but it doesn't turn on the element for some reaosn. Anywho, I'm bored of it now anyway as was only...

Didn't have enough bottles for a wit a month ago or so and ended up racking 4 remaining litres into a DJ. Fastforward to now and I've found the forgotton DJ but it's covered in some rather pretty mold. The DJ did have a bubbler on it so surprised it's happened but may just taste it and go from...

Ok, not sure why I'm posting this but you guys are much more experienced than I am so might see a solution. I'm having an issue 'bottling' my beer. I manage to scrounge 50ish 500ml bottles a month but I'm brewing way more than that. Think half my issue lies in that I'm making 2 or 3 times the...

So I binned my little thermometer with probe. Basically I had a mini-brewday recently and this was the recipe; Wort amount preboil 13L Wort amount post boil 9L 3kg - Marris Otter .250g Crystal 30g Citra 60m 10g Citra 15m 5g Citra 5m 65g Citra Flameout All seemed good till I took a OG and got...

Ok, so will try to condense my story/situation as best I can. I live in a small apartment on the third floor so my access to outside is very limited. Currently I close off the kitchen and put my boiler next to the window with a fan pointed at it when I make beer. I've got a 20L pico boiler...

Was lucky enough to win this on the latest giveaway. (Thanks MM!) Arrived well packed, all void spaces in the box were filled with cardboard so +1 for shipping. In all the hobbies I've had over the years I've received plenty of packages that were exceedingly poor, but not this one...

Just bought 2 bottles of this for £3 at Sainsbury's...

Reading a book I picked up for a couple quid the other week (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1852491175/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20) and it says about being able to harvest specialty yeasts from commercial beers. Essentially make a yeast starter but dump the last 10% of a beer bottle into it...

AG #2 Grain bill: 1750g pale malt 200g crystal rye (all I had) Hops: Galaxy: 10g in mash 30g boil start 10g 15m 40g flameout Citra: 10g @ 15m Simcoe: 10g @ 15m Mosiac: 10g @ 15m Went with the hop weights based off of a Greg...

So after a couple lengthy chats with a few homebrew shops over the phone it seems we're doomed. US, French, and German hop harvests were exceedingly poor for the second year running (So I'm being told) hence why both shops are out of the hops I'm after. Has anyone got any info on this? Should I...

What bottles do you guys use and where do you get them from? Would be helpful noting which bottles are easy to de-label, clean and reuse. I tend to save lots of Doom Bar bottles. They're the foil labels and they come off super easy and the bottle itself has no real markings! Saving this how do...

Getting frustrated with beer kits. This is the second one I've tried now (both Geordie's Yorkshire Bitter since that is the cheapest kit in my LHBS) and they both seemed to fail. On the first one I started with the can and added 1kg of malt spray. The OG was 1.046. After three weeks in the FV it...

I just filled a bucket with 20L of Second2none's punch recipe. (peach!) Hit Lidl on the way home and picked up 20L of AJ for just over £9 and now looking for some inspiration! Could just chuck in some sugar, hit the 1.050 mark and ferment out but not sure I want 40 bottles of just plain...

So I've just finished fermenting a DJ of turbo cider. Recipe was, 3 litres AJ + 600 grams of sugar, 1 liter boiled water with 10 teabags and some yeast. Hit 1.000 final gravity this morning and racked to secondary. After taste test I decided to back sweeten with strawberry ribena to make a...

Ok, so I wanted to experiment with a few different yeasts and see for myself the taste difference in the final product. I bought myself a relatively cheap Geordie's Bitter kit and divided by 4 and placed into 4 DJs. In the first I used half the yeast packet that came with the kit so by my poor...