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With the forum server change, have attachments been enabled? I've seen a couple of threads now that have that paper clip thing on them

I have a 40 litre Buffalo boiler and when I boil 30 litres of wort, the boil is a little too vigorous. Much more than a rolling boil, more of a boiling wort splashing out of the boiler kind of boil. If I turn the thermostat down, the element switches off and I have no boil at all. Is there any...

The packet claims 14% in 48 hours but in my experience it takes longer, even if the temperature is exactly I the range it says on the pack. And for the 20% version, it can take a couple of weeks rather than the week suggested. What's everyone else's experience with this yeast? How long does...

I was bottling up today and had my bottling bucket full of vwp. Did my usual rinse of the bucket after sanitising all the bottles and went on to fill the bucket with my beer and bottle up. When I was cleaning up afterwards, I noticed this jelly like stuff stuck in the tap which I suspect was...

Before I started brewing my own, I used to be a lager drinker, my first couple of kits were lager kits. Since then, I've discovered how good ales can be and, now i have gone over to ag, that's all I brew. I haven't had a lager for a good few years, until tonight. While I was in Sainsbury's, in a...

Can anyone identify these 2 berries, and can I do anything with them? I've found loads of trees with these on them. and

I've been given the go ahead from SWMBO to grow hops in the garden. :party: Where is the best place to buy them from? I'd really like one of the American varieties like Citra, but if they are not available in the UK, what's best to go for?

I've no idea how this is going to turn out, but I've got quite a taste for passion fruit juice recently so I naturally thought of making it into a wine. 2 cartons of passion fruit juice 1 small bottle of wilko white wine enhancer 1/2 tsp tannin 2 tsp pectolase (the juice has added pectin so...

What with one thing and another going on in my life, I managed to forget about a wherry that I hot during the wilkinsons sale. I gotround to bottling it last week after it had been in the primary fv for 5 weeks all during this heat wave. It didn't look too promising when I transferred it to...

As it is a lovely evening and I had 23 litres of beer to bottle up, and as I brewed outside I thought I'd bottle up outside. Now I either have 40 bottles of very nice tasting beer or, because of the swarm of fruit flies, 40 bottles of vinegar :doh:

The father-in-law opened a bottle of a brew I made for him for fathers day, it was the 10th bottle he's opened, and it spurted out everywhere, a real bottle volcano. None of the other bottles have done this. I've just opened a bottle of the same brew and it tastes of cloves. There's only 4...

My new 40 litre buffalo boiler arrived today :party: so it's going to be brew day tomorrow. I got some Progress hops cheap so I thought i'd give them a go and keep it simple. Recipe for tomorrow 25 litre brew is Maris Otter 5kg Crystal .250kg 40g progress 90 minutes 30g Progress 30 minutes...

Got the first Wherry kit on as I've no time for an AG brew at the moment and they were half price in Wilkinsons. Brewed it short to 20 liters, OG 1043. I had some help sterilizing my FV

http://www.firebox.com/product/5831/Brooklyn-Brew-Shop-Beer-Making-Kits If you really wanted to make beer in such a small quantity, I think you could buy everything in the kit for less than £10. I suppose it's an introduction to ag for new homebrewers though

Ok, so I mix this with vodka to make a raspberry liqueur, but it's also a very nice summer drink when mixed with water instead. 300g frozen raspberrys (from Tesco, or 350g from Sainsburys) 150g sugar a little water while frozen, put the raspberrys in a jug and cover with the sugar when the...

I read somewhere (can't remember where) recently that fermenting fruit produces more methanol than fermenting grains. I seem to recall they mentioned 3% methanol by volume! I read that it was due to the pectin and the use of pectolase. At the time I thought that this was a load of BS, but is...

I found some hops growing wild along the river last September, so i picked them and made a SMaSH from them with the plan of picking a lot more next year of they were any good. I've just cracked open the first bottle and if i didn't know better if swear out was a cider (except for the head...

I thought I'd try an experimental 1 gallon batch of a gruit along the lines of Back to Basics, just to see how it goes. I've come up with this recipe and I'll be brewing it next week sometime. This will be a first for me, so any tips (other that don't do it) would be appreciated. 1.000Kg Pale...

I made 25 litres of 20% "alcohol" using the Alcotec 48 turbo yeast and 8kg of sugar, after about 10 days the hydrometer was down to about 0.980 and was very dry tasting. I then added the activated charcoal to attempt to remove the off flavours (didn't work) and added it to bottles along with the...

I need some help, I have ordered a 19 litre pot (the most my cooker can handle boiling is 15 litres) and I want to put a tap and hop strainer on it. I think I can get the tap and hop strainer easily enough from Screwfix Tap - http://www.screwfix.com/p/15mm-lever-ball-valve/67744 Hop Filter...