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Please does anyone have an all grain recipe for the festival golden stag kit or nearest idea. Reason being my mate who also went halves with me on our all grain brewing set up says he has not got the time to do a brew and has bought the festival kit to brew I want to try and do an all grain...

I never thought it would stir about as much as that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGsYz3y ... e=youtu.be

I have got some smoked wheat and Gotland smoked malt on its way from TMM I did a Smoked Saison ( bottled at the weekend ) using 1 KG of the Gotland Birch smoked malt and early indications are it is quite subtle and tasty says the wife . Wanting to do some sort of smokey wheat beer but not...

Saturday started with a Brew of Shropshire Lad bitter to fill up my friends FV as a thank you for looking after our dog when we go on hols . forgot to take any pics then a marathon bottling session 46 bottles of Cottage House Saison and 42 Bottles of Smoked Saison using 1 kg of Gotland...

I am after suggestions for a recipe to use some left over malts here is what I have got want a nice strongish drink to bottle ready for september 5 gallons or could go to six and cornie half and bottle half lots of Crisp Maris otter lots of Bohemian Pilnser half kilo Munich half kilo...

Thinking of doing a Speckled Hen clone but using the yeast cake from a soon to be secondaried Saison OK I know it wont be true to style but will it be drinkable so we are talking Old Saisoned Hen here

A week ago I bought the Belle Saison yeast from MM and laid down a beer with it started at 1070 OG and 18 c kept raising the temp as instructions we are now 7 days later and at 27c and its still going well with lots of bubbles tested it 2 days ago and it was at 1015 I was wondering when...

Is this a stupid idea to make a yeast washer from a tap and used water bottle currently testing it with yeast I am not bothered about so no top on

Inspired by the Thread about steam heating the mash tun and after a few experiments ( thanks Bobsbeer also for starting it off ) My stuff ordered from The Malt Miller arrived today ( what a swift service Ace :thumb: ) Been wanting to do something Belgian for a while and had a pack of the...

Is the alcohol we as home brewers stronger than the commercial stuff I am no stranger to strong beers but my home brew seems to effect me more than a similar quantity of similar abv bought beer . This effect has also been noticed bynthe missus whos fav drink is a 7.5% cider she had a glass...

is there a way to judge the amount of water to underlet a mash with like say when it just seeps to the grain top I have no way of telling how much water has come from the HLT and as its too near the shed roof cant use a dip stick

I was wanting to do the Orkney Scullsplitter brew got all the Grain but no hops so wanting a bit of help here to make an interesting brew the grain bill is Maris Otter = 7710 g chocolate = 90 g crystal 265 g torrified wheat 265 g hops...

Mashing a brew tonight and now have some questions from reading on here it seems like 10 degree heat loss is about right so what temp to sparge at in the morning . its going to be wrapped up as well as poss but what if it loses say 30 degrees what temp to sparge at for that possibility...

Well as they say what can go wrong will go wrong Started out great with plans to do an Old Peculiar recipe off here mash went well and some very black wort collected and in the boiler still going good so far then came to drain it in to the FV only to find the filter blocked up and no...

Just wondering here my first Brew was a Old peculiar Clone and is OK a bit dandelion and burdock Its now half drunk and I have a small brew that is a bit too bitter are there any issues in mixing them in the barrel and would it achieve the bittering up of the OP wnd mellow the Bittering...

After struggling to pour my grain in to the mash tun from bags and a bucket this idea came along using one of those flexy builders buckets

My small shed at the back of my garage is sort of half underground level and half above the garage wall forms one side a breeze block wall the back the other side is bottom half concrete retaining wall with wood on top and a wooden roof . The raw plan is to build some sort of beer storage...

I started by reading the article on Mr Malty site about late hopping so decided to give it a try with the recipe on there the Evil Twin beer . I had to substitute some of the malts and change the hops so here is what I came up with. had to use grains thet my local brew shop had in stock evil...

Yep I cocked up a little on the sparge and as a result I now have 3 litres of 1062-SG wort left over the yorkshireman in me wont let me chuck it away . it would fit in the fermenter but then there would be no room for the initial foamy start so could I keep it and add it when the ferment has...

Just got the mash done for the start of the Grand Prix hense the name mash time however long the race takes hit 66.5c in the minus 2c shed woolly blanket round the tun Recipe Specs ---------------- Batch Size (L): 23.0 Total Grain (kg): 7.748 Total Hops (g): 105.00 Original Gravity...