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I think I've made a big boo boo. I didn't realise that my fermenter jacket wasn't set right and is heating to 26c. I'm making a DIPA using safale us05 which suggests 21-25c. I'm annoyingly 17 days in before realising my mistake. Thoughts? Have I killed it? Even if the yeast survives, is it...

Hi All, Have been off here a while due to domestic issues meant I didn't have anywhere safe to brew. Now have my own place and setting back up. A few years ago, I did a porter kit which I'm pretty sure I bought from the Goodlife place in Norwich. Basically, it worked like a teabag. Almost...

I did a search through the forum after getting fleeced for DME / LME when I bought a brupack at the weekend. I came across this thread from about a year ago which was interesting. So one of our sponsors (The Homebrew company) sell 3kg for £14 but they are also selling 25kg of light LME for...

The full story is here But basically, an Italian cafe place which prides itself on the fact that it sells not only 1, but 2 Tennent's brews. How posh eh? I bet they think they are really cosmopolitan by selling a "Scottish" beer.

Today, my cheep-cheep sodastream turned up. And my lager is flatter than a witches t*t (something I'm determined to find out. The only witch I know is a fella). So I decided to try force-carbonating my lager. Things I learned. 1. Put the lager in a proper sodastream bottle. A grolsch bottle...

Is it me, or does this house look like it goes a little beyond "family bar"? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for ... 40712.html It has a "Shed" Inside, it has an ickle bar And some additional seating

Stu takes apart and CLEANS a Hi-Gene beer engine. OK. Feel free to nick pictures, tidy it up or indeed anything else anyone fancies doing with it. CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO SEE A BIGGER ONE So.... To start with, lay the beer engine on its side. Be very careful if (like me) you do it on the...

I won an eBay auction last weekend and finally picked up the bottles last night. Crates of awesomeness as they are the 500ml ones. However, I really need to bottle up my lager and these bottles are donkey's years old. So without spending hundreds of pounds on professional bottle washers (and I...

Forewarned is forearmed and all that..... I came down this morning to find a considerable puddle on the floor and a few litres of water missing from my water bath (I'm praying it was all sat on the floor and hasn't dripped downstairs). It appears that the flexi tub has got a very, very small...

So my Pear cider appears to have gone the way of the pear :wha: I would like to be with it at home, keeping it company. It appears to have not only stopped fermenting after 3 days (it never really started properly), but the head has almost entirely disappeared. No Krausen, no nuffink. It looks...

I've got far too much brewing and still little to drink (I think this appears to be common) More updates - Ribena wine, WOW coming on, Stout in Secondary and Zider bottled Latest update here viewtopic.php?f=21&t=36529&p=369660#p369660 Nothing much, just a few updates and some gravities to...

Firstly, patience required please, I'm new here :oops: I've been reading the forum for quite a while and I finally got all my gear together and started brewing a Canadian Blonde the wife bought. It's been sitting around a few months, but we moved house about a month ago so it's been too...

I've been following the forum for some time. I'm finally getting to the stage where I need to ask some questions, so it's probably a good idea to sign up and start the stupidity! So about me? Well, I have about a dozen hobbies and I work in IT. I live in Bedfordshire and have 2 kids from a...