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Looking to brew a Wilko Pilsner using S-23 yeast and dry hop with Saaz - I've read the threads on using S-23 but unsure how dry hopping affects timing... This is my plan at the moment: Rehydrate the S-23 at 23degC, letting it cool to pitch into around 20 litres of wort at 18degC, letting it all...

Bottled a batch of short brewed & dry hopped Hoppy Copper (HC is in last chance saloon as a kit for me) and also got a Wherry on the go this am with assistance of junior brewer (8yr old daughter). Not a single empty beer bottle left in the house :thumb: and the Wherry will go in a barrel ready...

Decided to sneak a session lager in before the shutdown for going on holiday so picked up a wilko pilsner which has always given me good results, added 750g brew enhancer, 550g brewers sugar, rehydrated yeast, yeast nutrient and made up to 22 litres with half a campden tablet for water...

Busy homebrew day... Got up early this am to bottle a Wilko kit lager dry hopped with Saaz. Then this afternoon I was looking after the kids and so managed to get 2 new brews underway: #9 - Hoppy Copper with brew enhancer - will dry hop with Goldings #10 - Wilko Pilsner with Ginger (inspiration...

With a substantial haul from Wilkos weighing down the shelves it seemed a good idea to get some of it in FVs :D So setup both my FVs: FV1 - Wherry with 500g Beer Enhancer, tom puree, 1/2 campden tablet, rehydrated yeast, made to 23 litres, corrected SG 1048 FV2 - Wilko Pilsner with 1.25kg Beer...

Today's brewday was an after school job with the assistance of 6 and 7 year old children - if ever there was a recipe for disaster :shock: Firstly syphoned the Hoppy Copper into a 2nd FV, primed and bottled - the extra hands were quite useful at times during bottling! Then started a Wilko...

Decided to try the Wherry that has been conditioning for 2 weeks in a pressure barrel last night and wanted to check I'm doing things right... It glugged drawing air up from the tap on the first pint so I changed the barrel top to the one with a brass injector valve and discharged an 8g CO2...

Started this kit 6th April using tap water with half a campden tablet, 500g enhancer and 900g brewer's sugar, rehydrated yeast and short brewed to 21litres. Corrected SG of 1044, started fementing quickly at a constant 20-21degC, bubbling through the airlock slowed after 2 days. By 14th April SG...

Kicked off a Wilko Pilsner today - nothing spectacular or difficult about that... But hoping for a reasonable result on my 2nd kit brew with: - Half a campden tablet to dechlorinate the tap water - Rehydrating the yeast - Using beer enhancer as well as dextrose - Brewed slightly short (corrected...

Just a quick intro as I've kicked off my first home brew last week and already found this forum a mine of useful info! My children bought me a Youngs homebrew starter kit for my birthday (4 of them is enough to drive you to drink!) - no prior experience of home brewing although my mum did do...