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Hi, I brewed a rice lager from the Greg Hughes book but it's got that chlorine related taste of burning elastoplast after fermentation. I have extremely soft tap water, practically pure, but I forgot to put in a 1/4 Campden tablet to dechlorinate as usual, although I made a kit once which asked...

I don't get it,. I've ordered a big book on hops, perhaps it will explain. Hops contain acids for bittering and oils for aroma. There is no such thing as hop 'flavour', we just perceived aroma in the mouth that way. The oils boil away, the acids don't. Why do we muck about with additions...

I'm thinking about pure oxygen for starters, perhaps for beer also, but as I'm just starting out and live in a remote area, I don't have an oxygen tank and all the bitz. I'm considering using food grade dilute hydrogen peroxide 6% (20vols), which is cheaply available on ebay, to generate oxygen...

I've only done a starter once in a 2L Pepsi Max bottle with lots of shaking periodically. I thought I could leave the loud only half on a as a kind of airlock, but I must of forgotten to loosen it after shaking. Blew gunge everywhere when I released the lid, like half my fungus. Felt like I...

Hi, I'm trying my first AG lager, a Vienna as it happens. I'm concerned that, because I'm using a bottom fermenting yeast, if I rack to secondary too soon I'll leave too much yeast behind and if I don't, crud at the bottom might flavour my lager. Please read on for more details. I...

Hi, I recently bought a used S30 king keg on ebay. Turns out S30 needs to be refilled at the local shop. That's a bummer. I live in a remote area with no homebrew store within 100 miles. Couriers charge a bomb for delivering up here and Royal mail don't handle canisters. Should I change...

Do I have to boil bottled water before I use it to prime, or if I overshoot my gravity can I just pour straight from the bottle to the fv? I know it is safe to drink, but any bugs wouldn't have the food to grow until dumped into wort. Cheers

So made some Fall Down Brown American Brown ale. 2 things... Its in bottles, I tried one and it tasted pretty good, but was quite, though not entirely flat, if the rest are like that can I save em by opening, adding a bit of DME in water and recapping? When it was brewing there was an...

Hi, Please could folks describe the difference in flavour between these two styles? My books and the web describe them both as a rich malty character, but what is the difference? Gonna make one in a couple of weeks to be my summer time drink this year so the runner up will have to wait...

Using BIAB Sorry if this is a dumb question because I've not seen anyone say they do it, by I was wondering if it's a good/bad idea to pass wort through a filter funnel with a bunched up muslin shoved in it. I soaked the muslin in no-rinse steriliser first then gave it a good wring out. I...

Hi, Is it a bad idea to put a 50w aquarium heater inside my white plastic bucket fv? I know putting it in a builders tub of water is the preferred method, but that's a bit messier. I would suspend it in the middle of the brew so it's not sitting in the sediment. Thanks

Hi, I split a Wyeast 1056 starter, half into the brew, and the other half I put into a bottle in the fridge. Will it come back to life if it warns up and I add more DME, or did I kill it? Thanks

Hi, I'm using my new big white plastic bucket fv and the fermentation is foamy, but there are no bubbles from my airlock and there is a faint, delicious smelll from around the lid. It's that OK? Its just sitting in my upstairs landing at ambient temp and so it might suck air in when it cooks...

Hi, I'm in Ross-Shire in the Highlands, anyone interested in starting a homebrew club? I know a couple of guys who would be interested. Pm me.

Hi, Boiling wort - I hear it is too remove off-flavours, particularly a cooked veg flavour, but it's it necessary to do it with the lid off? I am doing BIAB with an ACE tun/boiler so I can control the vigour of the boil very precisely as lid on could = boil over. Doing very small...

Hi, With my inexperience and equipment, sparging is not a priority. I raise my grain bag out of the Wort above the tun, let it drain into the tun, then plonk it into a colander over a large bowl. I then pour water at a very rough approximation of the sparging temp over it and dump what drains...

Hi, so I boiled the wort in my ACE tun/boiler using BIAB method and chilled it with a water chiller. When I tried to run off the wart, the bazooka filter got clogged solid with hop pellet crud. In the end I had to just stick my hand in to pull out the false bottom and continually and rapidly...

Hi, My first smack pack arrived a week ago and I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but I noticed that it iwas quite inflated when it arrived. It isn't fit to burst, but it's a lot more inflated than the ones in YouTube videos. It's it OK? Cheers

Hi, I have a working fridge set up with a heater and an STC-1000 temperature controller, but it doesn't seem to be working. I can set the temp, wait for the delay to end, hear the relay 'click' but I get 0V output from both the cooling and heating sides when the led shows that as 'on'. I've...

Hi, Has anyone made an equipment profile for it on Beersmith they could share for the ACE tun/boiler? The how-to video is just says "enter your system efficiency" How am I supposed to know? I'm not talking about the ACE Microbrewery system here, but the cheaper little brother system...