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Ok so the last brew, Coopers Mexican, went horribly wrong (don't ask). So I went onto a tin of Wilko's Newkie Brown that I had spare. Brewed acording to instructions and brewed great. Really crazily strong fermentation. However, DOH!, made a mistake and used a 500g bag of extra dark spray malt...

The weather is finally starting to get better. Should I risk fermenting a Mexican Lager without a submerged heater?

I have a recipe for a brew but I have no way of doing it from grain and need to know how much extract I would need to make it work. The grain bill is: 2.2kg 2-row pale malt 2.2kg white wheat malt 570g flaked oats 113g munich malt I am thinking I might get away with simply steeping the oats and...

Yo! Got given a AG recipe book that has a belgian Champagne beer in it. But as I can't get to doing an AG brew as yet I was thinking of trying to knock something up using a Brewferm tarwebier, some Champagne yest and some dried orange zest. Would this work or would I end up making a hash of it...

Part of the reason I have been away was down to my old pc, and no not the amiga, going boom. It was an old core 2 extreme quad core. Actually the first gen on the core 2 quads. So I have spent a while upgrading the pc. My new specs are as follows. Amd fx-6100 6 core over clocked to 4ghz...

This might have happened from the start of my brewing experiences and only now noticed. But does sediment normally get on the side of bottles when maturing. I have a Woodford Wherry on the go and noticed it when I do my daily checks on my brews, I like to make sure my babies are fine after...

Been mega busy with work and also my wife gave birth to a baby boy 5 weeks ago. Which seems to have flown by. I am still around and I am still brewing, got a woodfords wherry on the go, and I plan to get back on the forums again.

Hi guys. A few weeks back I made a Batemans XXXB clone. I used use protafloc with mixed results. However the primary fermentation went smoothly, using wyeast london ale, and I got 15l if nice looking and tasting ale. Now I then racked into a secondary, leaving as much of the sedement behinde...

Ok I know this is a much discussed thing but I was wondering what peoples real world experiences were with these things. My wife bought me a pack from Wilko's because she thought it would be easier than trying to measure sugar on a spoon. But obviously these things are designed for the larger...

Been into my local wilko's today and noticed they are phasing out the youngs and muntons beer kits and replacing with their own branded stuff. At the moment it looks like there is a stout, newkie brown, pilsner, english lager and mexican beer. For the price of 1kg bag of wilko's brewing sugar...

Hi guys! Question for you all. I normally make fizzy beers but I decided to make a Batemans XXXB clone. Everything went fine and I used some finings at the end and I got a wonderfully clear beer. However I used half a teaspoon of dextrose, I had loads left from making a prohibition kit, and 4...

Today the beer angels do weep and the beer god thundered his mighty rage across the land. For today a terrible thing has happened. Bottle bombs have appeared. As I went to my beer hold I did notice something strange. A taint had appeared in my mighty brew. At first I thought it might be just...

hi guys! Been given some protafloc tabs, 10 of em, by a friend who ordered too many bags by mistake. Thye are unbranded appart from the the Brewuk logo on a stickie. Looking on Brewuk they say 1 tab will do 5 gallon of beer. But the beers I make don't come to 5 gallon. I tend to boil 6-10...

Hi guys. Just seen 100ml bottles of raspberry and cherry concentrate at brewuk. Thinking of adding one to my hefe. However do i add this to the primary fermentation or add to the bottle? Also how much should i add to 17l or per bottle. Cheers.

I am gonna be making hefe on a regular basis but I want to make atleast 1 mini keg if possible just for parties and such. I know some people have mentioned before that the hefe loses some of it's cloudy nature in corny kegs would this do the same?

Hey guys! Just been to my local wilco's and got a wine kit they were welling off, replacing it with their own brand, and was wondering how to make mulled wine from it. I got the herbs and spices from germany last christmas and they are dried and in a air tight bag. Would I be able to add these...

Just recently purchased this game. Wondered if anyone else in the community had it and to see how far they were.

So a friend told me to stop by stormthecastle.com as they had a simple mead to try. He has made 4 batches of mead using the recipe given on the site and basically nagged the hell out of me to try it. So I did :) (If the colour of the mead looks a little off it's because the bottle it's in...

Ok so it's not orange but basic principles. Got a WOW recipe off the net and used red grape juice plus pomegranate and blue berry fruit juice from asda. Seemed to go well and the taste of the mixed juices seemed nice enough. Only time will tell.

After procrastinating for a while about doing a wine I figured what the hell and gave it a shot. This is a Rhubarb and Cherry wine based of a recipe on this forum.http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=3364&start=0 I started this wine 3 days ago. I just never got round to doing a...