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When I mini-kegged & bottled some half-batches last week, they had been sitting on the yeast in primary for a little while - probably the best part of three weeks since fermentation stopped. This was partially deliberate as I was worried about diacetyls from slightly too-warm temperatures during...

I'd like to give a MASSIVE shout-out to London Beer Lab (http://www.londonbeerlab.com) for finally bringing homebrew supplies to London! They're located in Brixton (zone 2), making actually convenient for us city folk to get our ingredients in person, without paying loads of shipping and most...

Just read something about using "Malta" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_(soft_drink)) instead of DME for a yeast starter. This an American thing, but I remembered we have Supermalt over here - you often see it in corner shops and the imported foods section of supermarkets. Seems to be brewed...

Has anyone got a mini keg (5L) + CO2 dispensing tap system on the go? If so, would you mind measuring the height of the whole thing with the tap fitted? I'm looking into mini-kegs & tap-a-draft systems as they'd save me a lot of space and tedium of bottling every last pint, but my fridge is a...

So I had a go at making vanilla fudge a while back. The result was pretty tasty, but definitely not fudge - more of an incredibly thick, vanilla-y sugar syrup. It's been sitting in my kitchen for months, and I've absolutely no idea what to do with it :wha: So I thought: why not ferment the...

Lately I've been thinking about how I can better control my fermentation temps. Actually, who am I kidding, I don't control them at all! :oops: (My flat is very well-insulated, so ambient temp is pretty stable and largely OK for ale fermentation, but it's a little on the warm side) I'm not...

I've googled this and others have reported similar, but I thought I'd check anyway: A batch of "Big Kenny" (recipeview.php?recipe_id=35) seems to have finished fermentation very quickly - under 48 hours. The yeast has flocculated and formed a nice cake at the bottom, the krausen has dissipated...

A typical brewday for someone not blessed with a garage/shed/garden! 17L tea urn as mash tun and boiler. This weekend I brewed three half-size (10L) batches: a "Big Kenny" bitter, an American-style pumpkin ale and a hefeweizen. The 10L / 2.5 gal size does seem like a lot of effort for the # of...

Hey all, I've got an impending brewing binge this weekend, and thought I might as well go the whole hog and do some quick turbo cider as well. I'm not a massive cider person, but what I do like is Henney's (or similar) - pretty dry, a bit acidic/tannin-y, but not crazy lip-puckering rotgut...

Went for a walk in the foreign land of West London yesterday; along with plenty of fruit I was chuffed to find a decent collection of hops growing wild! They're currently drying very gently in my oven. After some cursory googling, it is evident that one can't really identify hops by physical...

A beer I really like is the Camden Town Brewery's Pale Ale. It's pretty damn hoppy with distinct fruit flavours, but nice and crisp. Anybody know it? Naturally, then, I'd like to have a go at brewing something similar. It seems there was was a thread about this last year but it never got...

Hi all, I'm new to brewing (shockingly), and having successfully bottled my first kit brew last week I'm moving straight on to BIAB - hopefully enthusiasm and Google will make up for lack of experience! As I'm brewing in a 1-bed flat my primary constraint is space, which is why I'm opting for...