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Sorry, this might be a long one, but I want some of your input to try and rationalise my thought process! I've always bottled my beer, and never really taken the time to understand what's involved in serving from a keg. To be honest, I thought that, for my situation, it might be a PITA. But...

Here is a perfect example of how not to topcrop yeast. As you can see, this idiot (me) has chosen to put too much top-cropped yeast slurry and half fermented beer in a conical flask that is far too small. It was in the fridge too! :doh: I give up!

I'm after a graduated, tall form, seal-able container for harvesting yeast. I found this on eBay, which looks absolutely ideal. My question is, as it's borosilicate, can it be used directly on a gas ring, for boiling and cooling water as well as sterilization? If so, it looks absolutely ideal...

Brewing this Southern English Brown today, which is a Jamil Zainasheff Recipe with the addition of toasted oats for that luscious mouthfeel and creaminess. Recipe on brewers friend here: Brew Method: All Grain Style Name: Southern English Brown Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 23 liters (ending...

I'm brewing a brown ale with 10% toasted oats on Sunday. I thought I'd need to do a 40C Beta Glucan rest, but on reading around a bit, it sounds like I only need to do this if the oats make up >10% of the grist, and only to aid lautering. I'd rather not faff about if I don't need to, but...

Brewing this on Sunday and hoping it'll be ready in time for Christmas. It's a Southern English Brown, with the addition of toasted oats to give that creamy, velvety character that I love about oatmeal stouts. This is just about as different to the beer I normally brew as is possible, but I've...

I was born in Portsmouth and grew up in Hampshire. One of the beers that always stood out was the infamous Gales HSB. Back in the day (before fullers got their dirty mitts on it), it was one of the strongest and most flavourful Special Bitters you could get in a pub and I bloody loved it...

This is kind of a spur from another thread. I've had an APA in the FV for about 4 and a half days at 18C so quite cool for an ale. It's gone past the first "dirty" krausen and is at the tail end of the second krausen so I decided to see if I can do my first successful top crop. Gravity is just...

This topic has been split from the head retention topic to avoid hijacking the original post. This is a discussion as per title really, note I've omitted AIPA :lol: Vossy1 This is an interesting point. The BJCP guidelines clearly differentiate between American IPA and English IPA. I know...

I'm at a point where I'm fairly happy with my brewing. The beer is good and I've got a decent grasp of the processes. It's just all a bit "manual" and feels a bit amateurish. Does that make sense? I'm brewing AG in a plastic 2 vessel system - coolbox MLT with a copper manifold and a 30L plastic...

I brewed this yesterday, and it's the first beer I've brewed for about 4 months! It's a really simple APA with Australian & NZ Hops. I wanted this to finish dry (1.008), with plenty of tropical-fruit hop character. Our local water has very little in the way of minerals, so I added 10g of gypsum...

Hi all, I hope this is OK, but please let me know if I'm breaking any forum rules here. I'm hoping to start a camping business in Devon (nothing to do with brewing BTW), and I could really do with some people to take a really quick survey. It's only 10 questions, 8 of which are multiple...

I'm pouring a 1/3 of a pint of beer I brewed between 2 half pint glasses in order to try and degas it, so I can do a gravity test on it (to see if it's possible I have a wild yeast infection). Is this the easiest way, and how degassed does it need to be before I'll get an accurate gravity...

I tried a bottle of my 8B Normal Beer today and I tasted distinct clove phenolics, very similar to a half decent hefeweizen. It is actually delicious, and I'd brew it like this again but clearly not planned! Question is, why is it there? Things I think could have contributed: It's only 5 days...

So, another pancake day is upon us. Do you "do" pancake day? What are your favourite recipes and what beers do you like with your crepes? My girlfriend and I absolutely love crepes, and I like to add a little melted butter to the batter, and some vanilla to sweet pancakes. Can't beat the...

Brewing this AIPA sometime in the next week, since I've harvested a decent pitch of WLP 090 San Diego Super Yeast from my APA. Rob The Malt Miller has Citra in stock again, so I jumped at the chance to order some, and wanted to use a hop I'd never used before, with some piney, resinous...

One evening without anything pressing to do, and I've built myself a temperature controller box, based on the ATC 800+. It's a relatively easy project which should really kick my brewing up to the next level, and not expensive. I bought an under counter fridge locally, on Gumtree for £20; it's...

I'm thinking of producing a few months worth of beers, purely using the Whitelabs Saison 2 strain. The saisons I've had have been some of the nicest beers I've tried and I thought at points that it might be an idea to use a Saison yeast as a kind of "house" strain to produce all kinds of beers...

Brewday tomorrow, 1500ml starter of WLP090 San Diego Super Yeast has been prepped and I'm swirling it every time I walk near it. I think I'm in love with Centennial hops. This APA pairs Centennial with Amarillo in a medium/dry golden beer with huge hop aroma and flavour and a bread/biscuits...

Putting a recipe together for a brewday Friday. I like my APA with bags of hop flavour and aroma, citrussy and bitter but with enough interesting malt to make it more 3 dimensional. Here goes: 23L OG: 1050 FG: 1010 to 1013 Eff: 69% IBU: 42 Colour: 7.5 SRM 4.2 kg Maris Otter 340g Biscuit Malt...