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As a follow up to my innocent thread regarding finings in beer,which spawned some very emotive posts and good discussions I would like to ask advice as to which water is preferable for me to use as an agnostic. Would I be better off using Holy water or Halal water? Or is plain old council pop...

OK for starters I might have spelt it wrong but it's too early in the morning to be thumbing through a dictionary. Basically I eat fish and dairy products but not meat. I have done since 16 and I'm 51 now. I m not one of those tree hugging do gooders and I'm more than happy to do my bit on the...

Hi all I have been a member for quite some time but haven't posted for ages. I'm a member of a three strong brewing collective making mainly ales and wine but occasionally we make mead and elderflower champagne. Based in coventry would be great if anymore local brewers would like to join us for...

Hi one and all, moving job and house so very reluctantly having to dismantle home bar. I have a very large collection of bottles (some rare ones but mainly common) majority are capped..but empty! There is over 250 all crated up and ready to go..you'll need a van or trailer and it's an all or...

Tight me.......so when I saw the kitchen staff at my school chucking out the syrup from the fruit cocktails, pineapple slices etc etc I thought I'd try doing something with it. Now the collection of source liquid is infinately variable so each brew is different, some nectar some rank, but...

Hi, I have just acquired a beer engine (no pipes, no fittings, no check valve) and tried connecting a pipe to it (the larger "fir cone" connector), plugging off the remaining smaller straight connectors (which i am led to believe are for a chiller). cadged a check valve from a plumber and...

I have acquired a large water container from the top of our chilled water dispenser, enlarged the hole to accept an airlock, tested it for any leaks and cleaned/sterilized it. What do you suggest I make in it, I have a six bottle elderberry kit from wilko as a starter but was wondering if any...

Local Aldi doing a deal on spring water, will it really make a difference on my latest brew of Coopers stout brewed short to 20 pints using brewing sugar.

A friend of mine says that "Artic Brews" of 14% are made by fermenting a wort, freezing it, pouring off the pure alcohol, fermenting that and repeating the process until you get a high strength brew required. Any truth in this or do they use turbo yeasts

Hi, I have been brewing my own now for nearly 3 years (all from kits!!) with varying degrees of success (i like to tinker with the wort adding more sugar/yeast, decreasing water, adding various "additives" such as fruit teabags/fruit, spirits...basically anything that MAY or may NOT be a...