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The following are looking for a new home. 8kw gas ring - £10 (IMG9839) 60l stainless steel boiler - £30 (good condition) (IMG9839) S20 wort chiller - £30 (IMG9844) Mash tun with rotating arm and filter bottom - £20 (IMG9839) Barrel cleaner rotating head - £20 (IMG9845) 5 x barrels - £50 (in...

Thanks fellas for your replies. mclaughlinJ hit the nail on the head... patience!!! As you can see from the attached photo the beer in the FV is already remarkably brighter compared to how the wort looked when I kicked off fermentation! I use the wheat malt to encourage a decent foamy, creamy...

Decided to try a heavy hopped pale ale last weekend. Used Chinook s as the bittering Hop, with Citra as the aroma Hop. Mash roll 5.2kg Maris Otter, with 200g Wheat Malt. Chinook in at 90 mins with Citra at 15 mins and a further dose of Chinook at 10 mins remaining with 3g Irish Moss. Gravity...

I've added Citra and Centennial hops to the FV to try and achieve a 'hoppy blast' a la an American IPA/Pale Ale. Only trouble is the bag I've put them in is floating on top of the wort! I've rotated it a couple of times, but am I going to get the full effect of the hops I've added if they...

Thanks Terrym. I always rehydrate the yeast first. Read about 'sprinkling and hoping' and never seemed the best idea! Used a couple of well known smack packs for sponge of my early brews and was never convinced they took off that well - compared to the satisfying hubbling and bubbling you...

Nothing happening.... I'm slightly against time as I go away with work for a fortnight shortly. Lots of advice out there about making up cultures with DME (which I don't have) and stirring in. As I've only got dried yeast (Fermentis Safale SO4) should I make up another sachet, and stir...

Slid - thanks. Yes I have a spare FV which I'll sterilise tomorrow. You're suggesting no additional yeast - just the 50-100g sugar? I take it therefore that there will be sufficient yeast left in suspension - they just need a touch of additional sugar to get them spurred back into life?

I am brewing a chocolate stout with an OG of 1054 and a tgt FG of 1013. Fermentation after almost a week is at 1020 - and giving me an ABV of 4.6%ish versus the 5.5%ish i was expecting/hoping for. it's been warm in Cheshire this last week. Will that have had an adverse effect on the...

SuperCooper - one question: I've used Adjunct Finings (AF) for the first time this evening. Racked my beer from primary FV into 2 sterilised 25L buckets with in the bottom of each to ensure it gets well mixed in. I then moved the buckets out to the garage (temp outside around 3°C at present)...

Seems 18g of Fuggles per 25 litre cask is the way forward. Thanks to everyone for their comments.

DFG, I am brewing Theakston's Old Peculiar (recipe in Graham Wheeler's 3rd edition). Struggling to get my wort chilled fast enough. Boiling in a 60L pot on an 8kw gas burner, and the immersion chiller I have is taking hours (and lots of H2O). I typically mash and boil in the evening, allowing...

I am about to brew my first beer that requires dry hopping. All the recipes I've read through state 'a few cones of <insert hop> into the cask'. I have a couple of questions: 1. What weight of hops does 'a few cones' equate to for a 5 gallon cask? 2. The recipe states Styrian Golding (SG)...

On my last brew I was concerned that one of my casks was leaking gas from the top seals. Admittedly it was over the warmest part of the summer, and I had to keep tightening the tap as I had a couple of significant leaks of beer as well. Do the seals 'stop sealing' on the cask caps? If so...

My summer lightning is now crystal clear. If I'd only had the patience (aka another cask to drink!) to wait an extra 10 days or so...

Safale SO-4. Same I've used for my previous brews and it's always worked before. Tastes great and is nice and hoppy. Just looks like a German weissbeir!

I've had two 25l casks of HopBack Summer Lightning conditioning since 3 May. I added gelatine last weekend, and whereas it has normally started to take effect by now there's practically no difference. It's a pale brew and at the moment it's soooo cloudy I cannot see through it. First time...

Thanks for all the advice. I added 75g of the sugar used during the brew in solution on Sunday. Kept cask at about 16 degrees since and there's now good pressure behind the tap. Thanks for all your advice. I try adding gelatin in a couple of weeks. Cheers!

I bought my wife a mincer attachment for her Kenwood chef for her birthday a few years ago. She loves cooking and is always looking for gadgets for the kitchen.... but the mincer wasn't well received ;-( If this grinder works well for you I might be tempted top try mincer on malt! Pretty us...

I've had a Christmas ale conditioning for 3 weeks. Thus far little to zero pressure has built up in the cask. For the first week after racking to cask I had left it in the garage which was obviously too cold. I am tempted to add some sugar to try and restart some conditioning activity, but I...

All - Thanks for responses. Point ref hop utilisation most useful. Cheers.