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I am in the UK and wonder if anyone can recommend an portable Electric Induction? I have a 20 litre pan and the most i do is 2 gallon brews so anything that can boil 2 gallons will work.

I am still quite new i have got about 5 small brews under my belt , I started using crushed grain malts with a mash and boil but never used LME or DME , I am not to fussy when it comes to beer i don't mind experimenting a bit and will drink how ever it turns out, I was thinking of doing a...

I have a can of Coopers 1.5kg Light Liquid Malt Extract and i have never done a brew with LME so can anyone help me with the process in using to make a beer ? I have know recipe to follow but i would like to make a 2 gallon brew so i am not sure how much to use out of the can for that ?

Just a question about the hop filter, do i still need to put the malt in a bag or will the bazooka filter the malt ?

Can anyone recommend me a Brewing kettle around 30L ? I want to use it on my gas cooker and i would like it to include a tap and hop filter .

I didn't follow all the rules of how to brew lager but its been in the fridge at 10c for about 14days i then set the temp to 17c for another 5 days , today i left it out to room temperature before bottling up , There in the bottles at about 20c i will leave them for another three weeks wasn't...

I Just finished my first bottling day of 3 gallons of my lager and so far it has gone great, i got to tastes the lager and its really nice so its all bottled and i will leave it out for about week and then put them in the fridge , I just want to ask is it ok to drink the lager that is...

my lager brew has been fermenting for 26 days the bubbling airlock is slow , It spent 10 days at 10c then up it to 16c , do i need to wait for all the bubbling to stop . i would like to get them bottled as soon as possible .

yesterday i just prime with sugar into the mini keg and today found the pressure bung must have blown off , will i need to prime again ?

I know its not a perfect science i will stick with the refractometer readings for now, I am going to give it a few more days and do another reading , but doesn't 1.005 means its about done ?

I wanted to avoid the hydrometer i don't do large brews mostly 1 gallon sometimes 2 gallon and i would hate to waste that much beer , I was told you can use an online calculator that will work it out for you, i must admit tried two different sites with slightly different results .

I used Lallemand nottingham ale yeast , It has been bubble for the last 4 days non stop but all to day know bubbles and all the foam on top has gone .

I brewed my first stout and the wort refractometer reading was brix 8 and after 5 days in all bubbling has stopped, i decided to take another reading and it came back brix 4 , the online calculator reads 3.596 ABV Original Gravity 1.032 , the recipe says pre boil 1.038 / OG 1.045 ABV...

thanks i would really appreciate that always worth having a good Guinness recipe at hand , As for the sourness taste i don't think its in all Guinness but depending on where it was made , and really i think it probably would be just as fine without it .

That is mostly the recipe i have , it dose not say acidulated malts just says lactic acid , I don't have acidulated malt but i do have some lactic acid, i was thinking would it be ok to add some to the wort to get a little sourness taste i do want it to be very sour in taste .