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Hello, I am getting married and SWMBO would like more room in the house. I have also been unable to brew in our new house as the kitchen is a bit small and, to be honest, I have a love of brewing but will be back to it when I have the funds for a proper man-cave. I bought all this kit new and...

Hello, I just wanted to see if I've made a huge error with my casking of my beer. With the cask almost entirely full, I went to hammer in the shive and it just wouldn't go in fully. Bubbles kept fizzing near the sides of the hole and I felt like it just wasn't secure. I siphoned out about a...

Well, it's been a long while since I posted properly on here so here goes. I am levelling up my game to cask conditioning having already used a corny and co2 with some confidence. An acquaintance has loaned me a plastic firkin from his brewery in order to practise my brewing for my best...

All grain brew using the base malt for TT Landlord with some extra hops. Pale malt: 4.2kg Black malt: 30g Hops: First Gold & Willamette combined 25g for bittering Styrian Goldings and Summit: 30g at flameout Not going to be a tremendously hoppy one but I wanted a bit of a lift from the...

I spent Sunday brewing a 'true' lager. The recipe is as follows: 4.5kg pale malt 200g Munich 200g Vienna 30g Northern Brewer 30g Hallertau Hersbrucker both @ the start of boil 30g Hallertau Hersbrucker @flameout 1 Protofloc tablet After making lots of best bitters...

Hi all, I procured some yeast from the guys at Ringwood and decided to make a clone of Best. I love 49er and Thumper but I wanted an easy drinking beer for the keg. Recipe from GW book. Pale malt: 3.8kg Crystal: 210g Chocolate: 38g The original recipe calls for 170g of Torrefied...

Hello, I am looking to brew a celebration beer for two weddings happening next summer. I have a home dispensing system (kegerator) and am fairly proficient at force-carbonating. Now, I can't transport my kegerator easily and I would like to invest in a hand-pull so that I can dispense cask...

This is a slightly cheeky title (it's a re-imagining of TT's Boltmaker with a different hop-profile) but it was my first brewing session since March/April and I wanted to follow a recipe. The recipe was: Pale Malt: 4kg Crystal: 200g Black malt: 30g I must admit: I was really happy to...

I was at this amazing beer festival in Brick lane on Saturday (sore head this morning) and charmed the girl behind one of the bars to let me have a free growler (stop s******ing at the back, there.) Now: what do I do with it? If I were to fill it from the kegerator wouldn't the beer just go...

Hey guys, half-term is here and I'm planning on brewing a hoppy as hell pale ale. I have some pilsner malt and was planning on using this (4.5kgs) plus a little bit of crystal and cara red to get a nice rouge colour. How much should I use? Hops are Slovenian and from the competition run by...

Hello, I've cultivated up this amount of yeast from starters and I would like to check if this would be the right amount for a 23 litre batch? I'm brewing on Monday so have time to make another starter if need be.

So this crazy lady commented on a video of my kegerator (first picture) and the ensuing message when I replied is causing me some amusement.

Chaps, I have awoken on my birthday to find that the gas cylinder I thought would last me forever (purchased in November) has run out. I've not long put a brew in the kegerator and have force carbonated it, though I've released the air pressure valve. Big question: will my beer spoil if I have...

Hi guys, I have learned from last week and spent this week building up my yeast from the Hog's Back brewery. The starter is at high Krausen but I just wanted to check: do I pour away all the liquid and just drop in what's at the bottom?

I'm going to use the Aurora and Styrian Goldings hops with some pale malt to create a decent golden ale that I'll keep in the bottle until the weather improves. Got a yeast starter from the Hog's Back brewery...roll on Saturday!

Hi folks, I'm thinking of making this Saturday's brewday a lager (though I've never brewed one from scratch before) and I'd like to use the hops from the Geterbrewed competition. 1) Which hops would suit this and in what quantity? 2) As I have no temp control I would probably put the FV...

Just getting this on the boil. Pale: 4.6kg Crystal: 450g Cara red: 100g TW: 100g Hops Willamette: 30g @ 60 mins Goldings: 30g @ 60 mins Styrian Goldings 25g @flameout

Morning chaps, I have started my yeast starter quite late (last night) and I used leftover yeast from the bottom of the bottles of my porter (Hook Norton yeast). Made up the dme solution and added it to the DJ with the yeast but I'm not sure if it'll be enough (though I'm brewing a fairly...

5kg of Pale Malt Hops are 10g Northern Brewer @ 60 mins 15g Columbus @ 30 mins 10g Goldings @ 10 mins 10g Simcoe @flameout Safale s04

Hi chaps, my HBC stuff has arrived and so I'm going to do the following brew: Sraid Dashain Stout Porter (Apologies for the lbs and oz, I will obviously convert them into old money when I write it in my brew book.) OG 1.060 5 gallons, all grain Grist: 9 lbs Maris Otter 1 lbs Amber...