Search results

Hi all, does anyone on here use a microscope to count yeast cells? i've just started doing this and have some questions for the experts. johnluc.

Hi all, am just getting all my gear together to start on yeast slants, everythings on its way so will be able to start soon, what i'm not clear on is do i need petri dishes to start off or do i innoculate slants from say a known decent source of yeast? if i should get petri dishes what are best...

Hi all, have been all grain brewing for about 4 years and never had much of a problem. now my last 7 or 8 brews have all stuck at 1020-1016, always use S-04 or S-05 never hydrated until first couple of stuck brews, never made a difference, dry pitched or re hydrated all stuck, tried all the...

Hi all, was asked to make 2 ag brews for my friends 70th birthday, a london pride & a ruddles, have done about 50 ag brews so far with great results, anyhow first one, the london pride went well, 2 weeks in fermenter, checked fg stuck @ 1.020, gave it a stir checked 3 days later still 1.020...

Hi all, just doing a Youngs special from GW book, it says to dry hop with Target hops, yet earlier in the book it says to only use a good aroma hop for dry hoping, as Target are a bittering hop i'm a little confused any thoughts? :wha: johnluc

Hi all,just doing a TT landlord have noticed my styrian golding are not quite as fresh as i would like,can i use bobek instead and if i do will it affect it in any way. johnluc.

Hi all, been thinking of trying those e cigarettes but there are so many different out there, can anyone recomend a good one, are all cartridges refillable with e juice or do you buy special ones that are, and if you buy one make are the cartridges universal,ie do you have to buy the same make...

Hi all, just been thinking after reading a piece on water treatment, and think i may have been doing it wrong for some time, when using the water treatment calculator i have put in the amount of water i start with, (ie i always fill my hlt to full 49 litres) and put that figure in the calculator...

Hi all, after having my last 3 ag brews stuck at 1020 i now have one thats reached expected gravity after two weeks and is still bubling away like a goodun, question is do i now bottle or wait longer and if so how much longer,i dont want it to end up dry. :wha: johnluc.

Hi all, halfway through and my brew has stuck @ 1020, this is the 3rd in a row that has stuck at this reading, have tried stirring,no change, the only difference between my last 3 brews and the 20+ previosly is that i'm doing 27ltrs instead of 23-25ltrs,using s04 or s05, is one satchet enough ...

Hi all, did a youngs special last week from GW book which states to dry hop with a few cones of target hops, 2 questions: 1: as Target are a bittering hop i thought the idea of dry hopping was to add aroma, any ideas. 2: how much is "a few cones" johnluc.

Hi all, doing an AG brew tomorrow and have high colour crystal malt (200) that i should use, what affect will this have on colour of finished beer,and or any affect on taste,as iv'e only got brewmate on my pc it does not show crystal of this colour. johnluc

Hi all, have now done about 20 ag brews and always used so4 or so5 all been great and no problems, have used wlp002 twice and both times they have stuck @ 1017-1020, i split 1 phial into six. 1st brew i used 1 of the splits and it stuck at 1020 the second brew i used 2 and that has stuck at 1017...

Hi all, i know its on here somewhere, but can't find it, put 5 galls of london pride in a plastic budget keg, 20c for 10 days and it's been in the cool for just over a week checked it out today and the keg has swollen quite a lot,the 4 little feet are about 3/4 inch off the worktop, the cap is...

Hi all, don't want to sound like an old fart, but does anyone else get p****d off when someone asks for help you bend over backwards for them and they don't have the decency to post a "cheers for that mate". spent about 40 mins looking something up, writing it up, answered their question and got...

Hi all, decided to batch sparge my next brew tommorrow and been looking at the calculator and am a little confused about the top up water, when it says 12.5 litres for mash and 5.2 top up water does this mean mash with 12.5 ltr for 90 mins then add the top up before the first runnings, and at...

Hi all,made a starter (wl002) sunday for a brew on tuesday,now things have come up and i can't brew untill thursday will it be ok to use then or will it be fermented out an useless after 96 hours. johnluc.

Hi all,i'm on about my 16th ag brew and iv'e always bottled, now a friend asked me to do a brew in a keg, do i fill keg straight from the primary fv or tranfer to a bottling bucket then into keg.

Hi all, just started a london pride for a friends birthday got everything ready and find i haven't any northdown hops left, hop substitution chart says challenger as an alternative,as the recipe (GW) allready has challenger, do i just use the same weight of extra challenger as the northdown. or...

Hi all, please don't anyone get offended but as anyone else noticed that recently over the last couple of weeks the majority of posts on here seem to be all about kit brewing very few on AG, or is it just me. johnluc