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Hey, I've been researching the same, and this is covered in depth in the book "Radical Brewing". My advice, is to buy frozen fruit. Then, sanitize outside of packaging, and spill frozen fruit into sanitized sealable food container, to let it thaw to room temp. This process should: 1) Kill the...

Hey guys. Recently made a Cascadian Dark recipe, was supposed to end up with 19 litres in FV (I assume, as it was 5 gallon recipe) @ 1.066, but ended up with 23 litres @ 1.050. This, of course, made me very sad, and I realized I haven't really done any efficiency measures on my equipment or...

Is there any malt in there? That almost sounds like a pseudo-mead/melomel, with hops added, rather than "beer". I'm not sure how well yeast performs on just sugars/honey, my understanding, from a mead perspective, is that you need do staggered yeast nutrient additions to keep the fermentation...

Fellow brewers, I'm looking for some advice. For my hopstopper, I used 2 pieces of stainless mesh. I have hole in middle of top mesh that drainage piping goes through, so inside mesh "sandwich" I have upside-down copper "T" with 2 small 15mm copper tubes attached to "T". I was having lots...

Baz, Do you keep the lid on for the whole boil, or is it open air mostly? I'm surprised from the heat and steam that the duct tape doesn't fail. Here's a question...I used a permanent marker to mark every 2 litres in my buffalo...then after my first AG, I assume due to the acidity of the...

gurtpint, I've got the same problem, I have to crank mine to max (110) to get roiling boil (I should call it splashing boil...it splashes up and out, even at the 16 litre mark), and then immediately stops boiling if I go below 100. That's with water or wort, generally I've kept the lid off. My...

Hey, I did my first AG on Saturday, took a whopping 9ish hours to complete. Here is how it went: First, some pics Cleanliness is next to Godliness... Shiny...ignore the fingerprints... Trying to be organized... The mash... Things started off on a frustrating note, as somehow my...

Hey, decided to dish out £20 on what I thought would be decent ETI probe thermometer, with stainless braided lead, which I thought would be useful for leaving in the boil...I thought I was getting a decent one, seeing as at a local cooking shop known for its inflated prices, thermometers are...

Hey, I'm new to the whole homebrew biz, but decided to move to AG after a couple of kits. I've read "How to Brew" by John Palmer, and recall reading about avoiding aeration of hot wort. When draining wort from my boiler (horizontal ball-valve tap) on counter top, into small segment of...

hey, got one of those electrim 75 immersion heaters. factory default is 22c. So, do i leave in FV for full 8 days of fermentation, or just first 48 hrs? Also, is factory setting too hot? I recall reading something about heavy ethanols or something at high fermentation temps?

Got mine, works a treat..

They are 1/2 15mm hose connectors, looks like a hosetail

Hi, I bought 10M of 10mm, and a 1/2" garden hose, and a bunch of fittings and reducers. After struggling for days to get the copper inside the hose, I realized that most designs use 10mm with 5/8", no wonder it was so difficult to feed. It is all coiled now, but I'm thinking it may not be...

Hey, Just about to install hopstopper in my buffalo boiler...I'm using a drilled out tank connector with wide backnut to attach it to copper pipe that leads to drain. However, the tank connector has a black (plastic?) washer between the fixed and moveable backnuts. Will this be a problem...

Hey, making a counterflow chiller, because I'm new to brewing and apparently like over-engineering and spending buttloads at B&Q and online :) So, my question is, I am using John Guest Speedfit hose connectors to connect garden hose to chiller, outlet for water, and outlet for chilled wort...

Just ordered myself a Buffalo 40L. Need some advice on installing ball-valve and hop strainer, as I have no idea how that kind of thing works. I've seen these threads: http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/view ... =6&t=35116 http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/view ... =6&t=30868 But as I don't...

yippee, just bought buffalo 40L from Nisbets. They are on sale for £125 inc VAT...was £131 to ship to IoM which is like, a miracle (I bought a 13L pot *stupidly* off fleabay and shipping was £11, the pot was only worth £30) :) still need to sort hop strainer, tap, and mashtun etc etc, but...

Hey, Just doing kits at the moment, but trying to be forward thinking... Basically, I'm not sure about boilers...for kits and extract I suppose I could just buy a big SS stockpot, but they are like £100. I'm wondering, can I use the same boiler for kit/extract/AG? If so, I'm confused as to...

Hey, Just started brewing on the isle of man, got the basic kit, plus some bits and bobs like the bottle washer, drainer, capper. Also got a second FV, my first doesn't have tap, didn't like the idea of tap in primary FV. So, siphon to secondary with tap, then use "little bottler" to transfer...