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Will I get away with it? I put my latest brew (hopefully some kind of spring bitter, whatever that is) in the inkbird fridge I made, but the bloody temp probe had fallen off unbeknown to me, so I thought it was 20 degrees. That was Sunday night. I looked in there tonight and yeast sludge had...

Hi, My brew books always say to prime with 50g of sugar for a 6 gallon batch ready for bottling. However, I seem to remember I did this, and most of the bottles from a batch blew up with foam when I opened them. So I've backed off to 20-30 of sugar, and my beer is usually a little more flat...

I bottled my new beer last weekend just before going away, and the heating **** itself and was off all week. Only just got the house warmed back up. I believe I need to have kept the temp up at around 20 degrees for a week or two to let the priming sugar condition it. Does anyone think it has...

https://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/little-bottler.html Anyone tried one of those? Had a right job siphoning off my brew last night, had one of those tubes you connect on and nothing comes out until you press it into the bottom of the bottle but it went wrong and the stuff was coming through...

Hi Forum, I did my brew and I think I got it into my new fermenting fridge with inkbird and heater about the 17th. It was about 1055 I think. Its down to about 1020 now, so seemingly should have some way to go. However, the foam on the top has crashed down, there's just a few bubbles, and I'd...

Does anyone else have one of these instead of gas? Are they any good for boiling a big pan of wort? Not even sure my pan will work on it. My kitchen is a dump so a new one is in order, and these are getting hype, however, it must work for ale brewing :)

Hi forum, Just wondering if anyone's seen any packets of vac pack hops smaller than 100g? I always end up with loads left over. Just used 25/100g of Target hops for a stout. This seems to happen a lot for 5 gallon brews. I clip the packet shut and put them in the freezer, but always think it'd...

Got things cleaned and ready, and this lot is going in tomorrow .... 3kg Simpsons maris otter 1kg simpsons best pale malt 500g spelt malt 200g cara what 200g acid malt 200g oat malt 50g chocolate malt Aiming for a nice middle of the road bitter ... but got carried away with the malt list :)...

Hi forum ... is there such a thing as the home brew bends? My mates and I had a video chat. I had six pints of home brew. Others had more, of stuff from the shop. I had a skull crushing puke fest of a hang over that went on to 7pm. My mate said the following day "you've given yourself the home...

Morning all, Started my brew today, got the mash started then realised I had forgotten to order the crystal malt :( I've got 6kg of pale in there. I added 200-300g of amber malt that I had, and about 100g of smoked malt. I'm not really sure if these will stand in at all for the crystal. From...

It might be a bad idea to have one of these in my house ... but I wondered. If I barrel instead of bottling my beer, then use one of these pumps, can you somehow have it create a vacuum in there to save messing about with one of those inert gas things?

Hi forum, Don't think I've had this before, but I think my brew might be stuck. It was about 1045, and has been sat about 22 degrees in this weather, since the Sunday before last. It seems to have been at 1030 for a few days now. I bought more expensive yeast than usual as well, one of those...

Hi forum, Do you think homebrew is worse for hangovers? And what can be done about it? I have read to keep temperature down for fermenting. Will it ferment outside? Even if it takes 4 weeks instead of 2, that's better than headache beer? Anything else but temperature?

Hi forum, Long time no brew. I might do a stout or porter next. I've got a back of chocolate malt, and another of dark chocolate malt to use. As well as a bag of black malt. What are the pitfalls of doing a brew that involves wanging a shed load of this in to use it up? They are 500g/1 lb...

Hi forum, Made a bitter the other weekend, following a River Cottage brew book recipe. Sounded very nice, bitter with some dry hopping. I racked it to secondary after a week, it had dropped to 1012 or so, and I've put the hops that were called for into a giant tea leaf bucket I'd bought just...

Hi forum, I've got a stout sitting in the bucket fermenting, it's down to about 1.019 maybe, but it started out at 1.060 after a long over night mash. I made it on the 18th, the yeast went in the day after. I read that stronger beers may not ferment down as low? Usually I'd bottle around 1.011...

Wanted to run this past people. Mostly because I couldn't get old English Brown Malt, which was what the recipe called for, so I've ended up with ... 4kg pale malt 1kg crystal malt 300g black malt 100g chocolate malt 50g munich malt 250g racuhmalt 500g special B The original called for 500g...

I don't remember seeing this much **** on top of a brew before. I don't really want to put a hydrometer in that. It's had a week and a half ish I think, so it'll be getting on for done. But I think I'd have to spoon **** off the top to test it. Never had this before! It doesn't stink or...

Does anyone else do this? I just chuck boiling salt water in everything to clean it. It seems to work, and I've always got salt in, plus has to be less nasty than chlorine stuff? I believe salt causes the bacteria cells to explode?

Hi forum, I followed a recipe from a book I bought at the weekend, for a ruby mild it said. Target strength was 5.5%, using 5kg of grain. I ordered my pale malt, 3kg, and saw they had mild malt, so meant to order the other two of that and forgot. I did the brew anyway, and ended up...