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So things went a little sideways. I'd had the fermentation bin on cold crash for a couple of days and was about to bottle it when we had a sudden family tragedy. The upshot was that the beer stayed in the cold crash fridge for 5 weeks before I could get round to bottling it, which I did today...

I've had both, the plastic ones tend to crack after a year or two, so I went to galvanised. The first rusted after a year so I exchanged it for another, thinking I'd got a bad one, and the next one did the same thing, then I tried a different design, one of the buckets on it's side type and that...

After 4 days at 18C I increased the temperature of the fermenting fridge by 1 degree per day for 4 days, as Greg Hughes suggests. It's now been two weeks and I've just taken a sample, it's sitting at 1010, which is lower than expected by a fair way, GH suggests 1017 as the final gravity. It's...

I've done 12 hour smokes in a webber kettle in the past using the snake method. The first run round gets you about 6 hours then put a second load of brickettes in just before the last ones go out and it'll go back round again. These days I have a Kamado Joe and wifi controlled fan, which is a...

just put an order in too. Not used Apple Pay online like this, just in shops. Sure speeds things up.

Another recommendation for First Tunnels, I've just finished building mine and can't fault the product or service.

Sure, it was this one bought through eBay. All the import duties are built into the price. I also bought a spare sealing ring and the variable weight for it. This is the only one I could find that worked with an induction hob. I had wanted one of the All American canners as they don't need a...

Greg Hughes English IPA. Did half quantity of the recipe and no real changes. Just followed the recipe for this first go. Planning on his Bitter next and then a porter.

Well a few weeks back I finally managed to get the tunnel finished. Hardest single-handed job I've ever done. Very pleased with how it came out though and so far we have a load of tomatoes, peppers, chillies and melons in there with plenty more still coming on in the greenhouse that'll need...

Thank you to everyone that's contributed to this thread, yesterday I did my first all grain brew which is now fermenting. This is how I got on. First go at an all-grain brew.

Originally a teenage brewer of ropey Boots beer kits because it was cheap, I didn't brew again until the past couple of years. The kits had improved but, now in my 50's, so have my tastes. A bit of research on here led me to the 'have a go at simple all grain' thread so a few evening's reading...

On the grandpa's feeder there's a couple of holes in the side to put a bolt through. One hole holds the opening fully open so they get used to eating from it, the second hole holds it part open so they see the food but also get used to about half the movement from the opener. A few days set at...

That’s flour, not mould. It’s dusted heavily in flour then covered in a tea towel for proving. It’s baked with the dusting of flour still on it.

Last year I spent a few months working on my sourdough baking but was expecting to be away with work for a couple of months at the moment and so the starter lapsed. Instead, this week I've been trying Jim Lahey's no-knead bread and been very impressed with the results. It's different from the...

My first all grain brews, all from Greg Hughes book. 10l batches as my largest pot is only 12l, though I have a pressure canner on the way that's 23l so I'll move to doing 11.5l brews which makes the maths easy as it's just half the standard 23l brew. I'm going to start with the English IPA...