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Hi all It's been a long time since I last brewed but recently ordered the ingredients for a home brew. Just spent the last couple of hours cleaning up the old gear and preparing. But I've now opened my box of ingredients to find the wrong hops have been delivered. Making the munich dunkel...

Hi I was wondering if it is common to adjust the hop quantums if the alpha assumed in the recipe differs from the alpha of the hops you purchase? For example, in the recipe im about to follow the Hop schedule is as follows; Magnum 11% - 23g @ start of boil Hallertaurer Mittelfruh 5% -...

Hi all I'm planning to brew the Greg Hughes Munich Dunkel recipe tomorrow. The recipe suggests Safelager W34/70 which I did purchase however it says on the pack that it should be pitched in 10-15L of wort. I'm planning a 19l batch. I'm not able to get hold of another packet of the w34 before...

Hi all Would appreciate any suggestions or recipes for my next AG brew. I've been promised fathers day free to brew and plan to use it to make something for my dad's 60th at the start of August. He's not really a fan of big hop flavours or 'fancy crafty' ipas etc. He likes a traditional...

Hi Is there anywhere in the center of Birmingham where i can get homebrew supplies? Just need some DME for tonight but wont be able to get to Wilko or my LHBS before close. Would be handy to have one close to work which is in the center of Birmingham. Any ideas?

Morning all So last night I attempted my second AG brew on my grainfather. Didn't go to plan from the off as I dropped the grain basket pole thingy into the bubbling wort and had to do an emergency rescue. Anyway got past that issue but the big problem is I stupidly brewed to a far higher...

Hi So today will be my first bottling day. I've cleaned the bottles and bottling bucket etc and will sanitise just prior to bottling. I have a few questions that I could do with a little advice on. 1) I have chilled the beer down to 6 degrees for the last day and started chilling down to...

What would you say is the quickest, most cost effective and convenient way to store your final product. Bottling seems like quite a faff and also relatively expensive if Im using glass bottles. Mini kegging is also looking like a big outlay. Any other more convent and cheaper options...

My first ever brew day was yesterday. It was very long and very eventful. Certainly didn't go to plan. I cant face going into the details at the moment, its all too raw, but i have a 'hypothetical' situation which i'd appreciate your views on... Youve mashed and sparged and have 25L in the...

Hi all Please excuse the daft question but if a recipe says add hops at the end of the boil (flame out?) what exactly does this mean? If the boild is 60mins and you add at 0mins. Do you just cool immediately and add cooled wort to the FV? Or do you switch the boil off but leave it say...

After weeks of planning, reading and buying equipment I'm eventually about to embark on my first AG brew (first homebrew altogether actually). As the big day draws closer I'm sure the frequency of my questions wil ramp up even more but tonight's queries are about the timescales and temps...

Have any if you guys got one of these? Off question but I'm looking for the dimensions, in particular the width of the bottom of it and whether it's tapered at all. The Web site suggests that it's 12.5" wide but if anyone owns one and could provide me with conformation that this is or isn't...

Hi I plan to build a brew fridge soon and would appreciate any advice on the following please: - I have a old undercounter fridge, approx 85cm tall x 50cm wide (external measurements). Should I be looking at 40w tube heaters or would the 60w better. Would a 60w in the small confined space...

Hi all I’ve been reading up and have started buying equipment to start AG brewing. But there are a few questions I can’t seem to find answers to. Hopefully some of you guys can provide a few tips? Most of the questions seem to be about fermenting but also a couple of other...