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HI All, Has anyone brewed the golden summer beer recipe from the home-brew handbook (Dave law and Beshlie Grimes)? Im thinking of brewing it this weekend but the original gravity and final % seems off to me? The original gravity is 1073 and final is 1010 giving a %of only 4.5%. Surely an...

HI All, i seem to have lost my original book by Graham Wheeler for "british real ale " and in it there is a recipe for Adnams best using caramel and sugar additions. Is it possible, if anyone has it, to pm me the recipe? Its always been the best recipe for this fantastic beer and i've lost it...

Hi All, I'm still in the early days of using my Hop Rocket and wondered whether anyone knows whether using a hop rocket after the boil when transferring into the FV is better (for nice hoppy aroma) than dry hopping? I've always found it difficult to fully submerge my hops in muslin bags...

I'm keen to use my hop rocket between boiler and chiller for my next brew. My issue Is that I normally do a 75l brew length. Does a hop rocket with 100g of hops (nice and hoppy!) need to be refilled after 25l? Would I notice a significant drop in hoppiness in a brew length of this length?

Hi All, haven't posted for a while (busy brewing:party:) Just got onto the recipe section to look up my favourite brew -Big Kenny- and its nowhere to be found? Seems to be a lot less recipes than there used to. Am i not looking in the right place? have they been archived:hmm: tim

Hi all! I'm about to convert a larder fridge to be a dispensing fridge for a corny or two. Any recommendations for a good tap to use/buy to fix to the outside of the fridge door? Tim

Hi All, i'm attempting a Kolsch this weekend and not sure re the lagering stage. As i gather, the beer ferments as normal (although at a slightly lower temp of 16 c). The recipe then states to lager for at least 4 weeks. So my question is do i lower the temp after fermentation has stopped which...

Hi All, i've been trawling the forum and web for help but have now got myself totally confused!! I have some 30litre polykegs to serve at a party. They are sitting in my cellar at 15c and there will be no chilling available at the party. I have carbonated the beer at about 13psi for a week...

I've had 6 x 30 litre poly kegs knocking around for a while and I've never got round to getting a regulator and co2 to move on from king kegs. A mate has asked if I'll supply beer for his 50th .... He was around 300 pints!!:cheers: So I've gone and got a regulator and gas canister but have a...

Hi all, I have a bit of a plain tasting London pride clone in a king keg. I've recently tasted a fantastic new ale from Adnams called mosaic after the mosaic hop. So, I got some mosaic hop pellets today and, as I'm impatient, I thought I could jazz up my London pride clone to go all citrus...

Yesterday (Sunday) I started one of my white labs starters that I had split from a white labs vial a few weeks ago (been in the fridge since). It is gently (not madly) bubbling away. I had planned on a brew day tomorrow (Tuesday) but I may have to postpone to Thursday . Seeing as my starter is...

I've recently tried a white labs vial of liquid yeast over a packet of SO4 dried yeast. The beer is still fermenting so as far as taste is concerned that is not a concern, the thing is the liquid yeast was far more expensive than the dried. I have read that some people are stating 6 or 7 uses...

HI all, i'm going to do Alemans Effin Oatmeal stout tomorrow but realised i only bought 1kg of Flaked Barley and the recipe calls for 1250g :doh: . Should i substitute with more Oats, carry on regardless or make a 50 mile round trip to local HBS first thing in the morning!!! :wha:

Hi all, Just got a tall fridge ready to convert to a fermenting fridge. Also I have a brew packs 60litre fermenter. Anyone put one of these in a brew fridge or is the total weight too heavy? Is it better to split to two separate 23litre fermenters :wha:

Well the time has come to move on from my white plastic buckets,dodging rain showers on the patio and generally messing up the kitchen and realise my dream of a Brew Shed!! My mother recently came into a bit of money therefore she shared it out amongst me and my brother and sister. "i want you...

Hi all, I'm currently half way through brew she'd build (must post about this!) and I'm trying to keep all electrics away from the HLT,mash tun and boiler. My element leads are 2metres long and rather than use extension leads I would prefer just to have 3meter leads instead. I can't seem to find...

Has anyone put a ball valve onto a brupacks fermenter (screw on lid type). I got mine today from hop and grape but not sure if I can replace the tap for a ball valve? :wha:

Hi All, Been brewing for over 20 years and all grain for the last 8 and never had any issues with my brews but something strange has happened to my last 3 brews. Everything fine with brews as they go into the fermenters (smell and taste great). After fermentation the brews have all tasted horrid...

I've always used dry yeast for my all grain brews but decided recently to buy some Whitelab vials of liquid yeast to see if it makes a difference. On Sunday i brewed a 10gallon brew and split this into two 5 gallon fermenters. (OG 1045) I then pitched a Vial into each of the fermentors without...

Anyone know how heavy 100litres of liquid is? I'm looking at getting a stainless steel table off ebay for my new brew shed and its saying 300kgs max weight. I have three stainless vessels of the 100 litre capacity but have no idea how much these would weigh when there is 100litres filling one...