Recent content by joelwaddingham

Thanks for all your ideas everyone. I’m going to ponder further 🤔

The reason is, I don’t even have a mash tun or boiler. I mash in a fermenter using a false bottom from a saucepan veg steamer insert with a blanket around it; I get all my hot water from a 40L pan on a giant propane burner. Then I boil in the giant pan, chill with a spiral of 10mm copper pipe...

Hi all. After 8 years home-brewing I’m looking to get my first automated mash/sparge/boil kit. I’ve built up a nice collection of gear and bits over the years and it all works nicely but the time has come to invest in something fancy so I can get the precision to make the same beer every time...

So I made a lager with S-23 back in March, pitched two packs and harvested off the top once it was going. I made a starter from that, poured off the beer and topped up with boiled water. It's been in the fridge ever since. Six days ago I got it out, poured off the water and added some wort...

Hi there! Have just moved to the countryside from London, and with the oldest brewery in the UK being my nearest, I couldn't really not pick up the brewing again. I can smell the malt some mornings, it's that near :-) Had reasonable success with extract and the odd partial mash, but now I'd...