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Had a pint of duchy golden ale last night, I thought it was quite nice. The label said mainly barley, witha bit of wheat and goldings and fuggles hops. I'll use EKG. THis is what I came up with. Aiming to do this on saturday, what do you think?

First one is based on bath gem, 5l brew length 90% motter 987g 6% crystal 65g 3% choc 32g 1% wheat 10g total grain bill 1094g hops 60 min 9g challenger 6.5 aa 10 min 4g EKG 5.7% aa dry hop 2g for 1 week EKG 5.7 Ibu 33, OG 1.049, nottingham yeast,should come out 4.8% Second one based on...

It's a 5 liter batch of ipa smash, here's the recipe: 1kg maris otter. Hops: 60 min 5g ekg 30 min 5g ekg 15 min 3g ekg 5 min 3g ekg Dry hop with 5g of ekg Mash will be 90 minutes at 66 with 2.5l of water, strike temp of 76, after 90 minutes top up with 1.8l of water at 85, stir, then leave...

CAn you use this as a steriliser? I joust found some "Waitrose essential antibacterial spray" and I was wondering if it would be ok to spray on the inside of my fv then wipe clean and use. VWP is really expensive and a pain to mmix up 5 gallons and rinse.

Is it worth treating my tap water for my first AG brew? I'm going to do a 1 gallon batch of motter and goldings smash and the more i read the more worried I am about the hard tap water ruining it....

Just finished this today, made from a couple of 5l buckets and, a collection of plumbing parts and loads of insulation. I've never brewed beer before, even from a kit so i'm really jumping in at the deep end. I'll order some grain and hops soon. Hopefully get a brew on before the end of the...

I'm sorting out stuff for a 1 brewery set up, for the mashtun Iwas going to use 5 litre buckets, but I was wondering if two plastic demijohns or big 1 gallon water bottles inside each other then wrapped in insulation would do a good job too, just cheaper. Will the tall and thinner profile be ok...

Just wondering if anyone here has any experience on doing mall 1-2 gallon AG brews or just extract brews, I haven't got the money to get a AG set up for 5 gallon brews, or a boiler to do hopping of that much, but I thought it would be fun to do small 1 or 2 demijohn loads of beer, once I've done...

Hi, I'm planning on putting taps on my FVs to make bottling and racking off easier, but I'm just wondering, should I fit it as low as possible, or say an inch off the bottom? And also does the tap being so close to the layer of sediment at the problem cause sediment to be stirred up when the...

In recipes when it says "sugar" do you read that as brewing sugar or just caster sugar? I've made some ginger beer and raspberry wine with normal table sugar and I'm wondering if it'll be ok, but brewing sugar is so expensive. I know brewing sugar is just pure glucose, and table sugar has all...