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Lucky Freedom APA please🤞

Now that you mention it, that is correct. There's probably not much time saving between the two, in fact, bringing sparge to temp during the mash will save you more time. I redact my above statement about saving time as being a complete flight of fancy on my part. Thanks Horners for correcting me

I recently got a Brew Monk and in the process sold my mashtun and boiler I had before. So I researched cold sparge and people are getting equally good results with a room temp sparge compared to a heated sparge (75C). Going to try this for my next brew and report back. So not having to heat the...

My favourite so far was my Milk Stout. Number two goes to a Hefeweizen I brewed last year. And third place to an elderflower saison All all grain brews.

Welcome to AG brewing and congrats on getting the grainfather. As above, plenty of advice to look around, but for me, the biggest unexpected thing was the time it takes. 1 hour mash + 1 hour boil = 8 hour brew day I wasn't prepared for this on my first all grain brew day, so figured it'd be...

A 30l Brew monk. Sold my cooler mashtun and Peco boiler, so now I have more room, and hopefully a simpler brewday - have yet to use it

That's new info to me. I guess it makes sense. Brew on the weekend and give yourself a few days to edit and publish the video. Not a bad idea, will remember that if I get a channel going

I use Brewersfriend and they have a good printable brewday sheet that I use. https://www.brewersfriend.com/brewday-allgrain/ I fill those in before a brew, and then add the rest of the information during the brew. Afterwards I write tasking and fermentation notes on it too. They all get stored...

Planning to brew next month, I'll be sure to report back. Pitching two packets of dried yeast (11.5g). On non-lagers I usually pitch one packet, and cold condition, and get good carbonation. So I shall see what happens

Thanks for all the replies. I'll go without yeast then.

Did you just add another pack of dried yeast to the bottling bucket? Or a lesser amount?

Thanks MrL73 - I'm imagining that by transporting the FV I'll kick up some yeast. I'll give it a go without extra yeast then.

I'm planning to brew my first lager (Pilsner) in the next few weeks and as with anything new, I've come up with some questions. I've looked and searched on the forums and elsewhere and there's a common suggestion to add some yeast before batch priming a lager. I've never had any issues before...

Crystal clear? That is unusual even for a regular home brew. Did you cold condition, or fine it? Did you use Whirfloc in the boil? What percentage wheat did you use? What was the batch size? Could it be that the priming sugar wasn't mixed in properly, resulting in some beers being flat? What...

A little while back I posted this in /r/homebrewing and thought I would also share here. I made a little command line tool in Python 3 for homebrewers who want quick access to some common calculators via the commandline. Understandably not for the majority of people, but there are a few out...