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I went to transfer a new beer this morning and saw that my gauge was on 0. I thought there was a gas leak from somewhere and was quite upset, especially as I'm having a party tomorrow night. However, I don't think it's empty, I think the gauge is broken. It's a kegland regulator. I started the...

I'm making a cali common with MJ54, here's the recipe: It's 25 litres, OG is 1.056, it's stuck at 1.020. It's been there a few days and had a peek inside, no krausen and no airlock activity. I've increased the temperature in my fermentation fridge from 10-22C and rocked the FV several times...

Hi everyone, as well as beer I have another love in life, music, specifically heavy metal. I've started a podcast A History of Heavy Metal in 100 Songs. I've spent months doing research and now am recording and releasing episodes, I've got the intro and ep.1 published, which you can find here...

Has anyone used lavender in beer? If so how did you add it and how much? I was thinking of throwing some in 10 mins before the end of the boil and/or making a tincture and adding that to the beer.

Hello, I have a Boel iTap and was trying to fill with it a couple of days ago. I was purging a Tynt Meadow bottle and it exploded, sending a shard of glass flying out narrowly missing my face. As you can imagine it was a bit of a shock. Is this some freak accident or is it possible to put the...

I have a recipe calling for corn syrup, I've not looked online yet but can't find it in the shops. Would golden syrup be suitable replacement? I'd rather not buy online as it's probably one of those things which is cheap enough, but with P&P becomes expensive for just 500g. In 7 years I've...

I finally set up my keezer and it includes a boel iTap counterpressure bottle filler. I tried it out and filled a few bottles and it worked fine. I just cracked one open and it's almost flat, way flatter than from the keg. Definitely got a seal on the bottle. When I took it out the itap it made...

I received this in Brew UK's yeast lucky dip. It sounds really interesting and was wondering if anyone has used it before, and if so do you have a recipe to share? Thanks.

Has anyone entered or will anyone be going down? I've just volunteered to judge

I started kegging about 2-3 months ago and I'm loving it so far. Still need to properly build a keezer but that's another story. Anyway, I do find myself wanting to fill bottles on quite a regular basis but don't have a good way of doing this. I've been researching ways to do this and it seems...

Hi everyone, we're almost a month complete into 2022 which means February's dark beer competition is upon us. It's looking like I'll be judging the weekend of 12/13th March, so plenty of time to submit your beers. I do really like all dark styles and am looking forward to tasting them! I'll see...

I used to brew exclusively with kveik and made a range of really good beers with it, sours, goses, pales, pseudo lagers mostly. Then I started to get this really weird flavour in beers, and for almost a year all my batches were coming out bad. I thought I had an unmovable infection and wrote a...

Hi everyone, I've started taking pH measurements of my mash and was wondering how important this actually was? I've done it for one brew and it was 5.6pH, which is a little high, so I added small amounts of this winemaking acid blend I have to reduce it to 5.4pH. How important is it to control...

I'm very excited, in the Brew UK yeast lucky dip I got 3 yeast blends: American farmhouse, Belgian sour mix and Berlinner Weisse blend. However as you may know they are out of date and the cell count is low. If I culture these up on a stir plate will it throw off the balance of bugs? Thanks.

My press is broken but I still have a lot of apples to juice. Is there an easy home made press which doesn't require mastery of woodwork to make? Thanks.

I have a hand crank scratter and basket press for cider making but am looking to make plum wine and damson wine this year. Could I use that equipment to chop up and press the fruits? I've watched quite a few videos of plum wine being made but no one seems to do it that way. Thanks.

Hello, I made some cider last autumn out of a dessert variety and crab apples. It's been going through a long malo-lactic fermentation for a few months (still a lot of bubbles being produced). I tried some a couple of days ago and it has a sweet wine flavour. I don't think I've had sherry...

I have a pressure barrel, I also have a basic CO2 setup. I was wondering if there was a way to connect the CO2 from the cylinder to the valve on the top? Thanks in advance!

Hello, I kegged my first beer last week. I had 25L in the fermenter, put 18L in the keg and bottled the rest, so I thought it would be a good idea to mix in priming sugar into the FV so the entire batch is equally primed in bottled and keg. One week later I cracked open a bottle, it was...

Hi everyone, I've been recommended using Iodophor as apparently it kills a lot more than Starsan. I've never used it before. With homebrew and have some questions: is there a specific concentration I need to buy? How many ml of solution per L is recommended? Is there a recommended contact...