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Welcome aboard!

I use a pc fan attached at 90° to the heat source to move the heat around and avoid a hot spot. Not sure if it helps but in my mind it does!

http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=37417&highlight=homark+seal A really good description on how to service a Homark beer engine.

I made a square frame out of timber, and I just rest a shelf on top of it. Inside the square frame I screwed a board and mounted my heater light socket to that, so the light sits within the frame, under the shelf (which has holes drilled in it to let the heat circulate).

Welcome aboard! There are plenty of suppliers who sell extract kits with the correct amount of all the ingredients - might be a good place to start, then build up your own recipes once you have got used to the kits?

Distilling and deionisation are two separate processes, with the same aim. In fact deionised is purer than distilled. So two roads to the same destination perhaps?

I prefer to brew off my box......

A big chunk of what you earn will end up in HMRC's pocket too - whatever you do don't leave them out of the equation! Have a look at SIBA's website for some ideas too, and ONBP's blog on here.

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Or it could be your hydrometers are calibrated at a different temperature? What do they read at 15°c?

Certainly is.

Halfords sell de-ionised water for topping up car batteries. Supermarkets sell it too.

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http://beersmith.com/blog/2012/08/12/sour-off-flavors-in-home-brewed-beer/ Have a read of this mate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NebEtpoVA2k You most certainly can. I use starsan all the time. The above is about kegs, but it will give you an idea of how it is used, well, quite freely! 'Don't fear the foam....' If you get a bottling tree with the rinse adapter it is a doddle.

To get 4.6% like the kit says, it would have needed to have got to 1.015. 1.037 gives 1.7%. I would duck and run for cover.....

http://www.brewersfriend.com/hydrometer-temp/ You will find this and other useful calculators at the top of the page mate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AgcTvoWjZJU

And welcome aboard to you too!

My water is really soft, and I have never done a brew without adding gypsum, epsom salts etc. Maybe I should try one without.....