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Been meaning to post this for a while, I'm glad you guys have found my tutorial useful, but I'm hoping someone can help me now! The silicon i used to glue the covers over the electrical connections has come away, what adhesive would be best to stand up the heat and slight flexing that happens...

Hi, I have just bought an ebay Co2 regulator got my first corny keg set up, but I think I might have bought the wrong thing. The first gauge reads pressure on a scale I doubt I will ever need in my keg, 0-400bar. The second measures flow rate in CFH. If I have bought the wrong thing...

If I remember rightly it's had about 14days primary fermenting, then I had 10days dry hopping. This was done in the fermentation fridge. I think I bottled then. Left in the cellar for about 3 weeks, te cellar isn't really good for lagering as it was summer and probably about 12-14 degrees down...

Yes, this one turned out very well thanks. All long gone now though.

So I couldn't get hold of a Tesco Value Kettle, and I live almost next door to Morrisons, so I thought I'd give it a try using one of their value kettles a go. They are available now (Aug 14) for a mere £5! Here is my first guide, but hopefully someone will find it useful. PLEASE NOTE...

I've had not so great experiences using that kind of amount of chocolate malt, and similarly high mash temps. You may find you end up with a lot of unfermentable sugars

So I bottled two weeks ago and it's actually come out alright. I also I had some left as ran out of bottles (the cat had knocked three on the kitchen floor earlier and broken them!), rather than waste it, I thought I would try out some freeze distillation (partial freezing). I filled a...

Feel like I'm talking to myself, but may be useful for someone to read and learn from! I think the high mash temp has resulted in too many unfermentable sugars, and the fermentation has stopped at about 1.020. I also missed my OG by a couple of points, so it's coming about at about 3.9%. A...

Could your cheap thermometer be giving too high a mash temp, resulting in unfermentable sugars?

Well I brewed this one up at the weekend. Hopefully the recipe will be fairly balanced. I ran out of Saaz, so chucked in some Williamette I found in the fridge to make up the difference. I pitched the dry yeast straight onto the wort at about 28C. Aerated and stuck in the fermenting fridge...

Finally bottled this at the weekend, after dry hopping for 10 days. I'm a bit worried that I may have used too much priming sugar though! I calculated the sugar quantity for a beer temp of 12C as that is the temp of my cellar where it will be stored to prime. However the beer itself was still...

I thinking of making a porter and have been putting together a recipe using up some bits I have in. Please could someone cast their eyes over this recipe to see if you think it would be ok? Grain Marris Otter 4.5Kg Munich Malt 0.6Kg Crystal 120 0.7kg Chocolate Malt 0.2Kg Mashed at 69C...

So I finally got round to brewing this last weekend. I made a 2l starter the day before and pitched at around 26C. This immediately went in the fridge to cool down to 10C where it has been fermenting for the past week. I measured the Gravity today it's dropped down from OG of 1.042 to 1.018...

I bought a wilko pressure barrel as I had lost a few bottles recently and has a batch that was done. I racked my beer into the barrel with 80g of priming sugar, fit the gas bulb lid, without a bulb, and left it in the cupboard for a week. I drawed off a half pint and was worried when the flow...

Excellent. I love Brooklyn lager, and now I have a fermentation chamber I have been wanting to try the cooling side on things with a lager. I did a bit of googling and found that although Brooklyn use their own yeast strain the brewer recommended a WLP 800 Pilsner yeast. I have all the...

I suppose I could do something like that, and just keep sparging and topping up throughout the boil. It would probably only be a couple of extra litres though right? I'm not sure how much boils off in an hour. Also, this would make it pretty tricky to calculate my efficiency. Although I'm sure...

I am getting into all-grain brewing after cutting my teeth on extract and then partial mashing. I have been given a 30 litre cool box type mash tun but I can only boil up about 15 litres due to the size of my kitchen and my pan. I haven't found a suitable guide for this process, and I am...

Well I bottled this last weekend and have had my first bottle tasting today, just a 250ml to see how it's going. It's truly delicious by far and away the best beer I have made. The beer has a head that stays around for more than a few seconds, not sure if this is due to the introduction of a...

I have been wanting to try brewing with fennel for some time now. I often use the seeds when I bake bread, and think that if it goes well with bread it should go well with beer! I'm going to use a modified version of a Clown Juice clone Wit style beer I currently have fermenting, with some hops...

Great stuff, well I guess I will get down the Leeds recycle centre this weekend and see if they are willing to let a fridge go for a couple of beers!