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I like to occasionally barrel my beer and have a cask conditioned ale. I've got plastic 5 gallon barrels and 2 gallon ones. The other day I made a ten litre batch so we could have friends round, sit in the garden and have safe, non-gassy beer. However, for the second time (it happneed a couple...

How have people found the QC on Grainfathers? I finally took the plunge and bought one on Monday, it arrived Wednesday and today I unwrapped it, put it together and poured water into it to do a clean before first use. Got about ten litres in and noticed that water was leaking from somewhere...

Folks, Am toying with the idea of a Robobrew type system, but all the videos of how they work seem to gloss over or saying nothing about the sparge process. When I sparge in my coolbox I use a system I knocked up that puts the hot water through s system of pipes and evenly distributes the...

This may be an impossible one to answer, but for the first time I have an issue with a brew not coming out perfect. When I opened the fermenter I thought at first it had gone off, from the smell, but it wasn't vinegary at all. It didn't taste right and it looked hazy, but it didn't taste off...

I used to love Black Sheep Bitter - the 3.8% session beer I mean. It used to be this fabulous malty, delicate flavoursome beer. It's been decreasing in quality for a while now to the point that tonight I had a pint and it had that really unpleasant Greene King aftertaste. It's a much darker beer...

I've recently bought a new, bigger kettle so I could boil more beer at a time. Seemed like very little effort for twice as much beer. Gone from the Peco 23litre to a 56 litre stainless steel kettle. I still used the Peco for HLT as it's nice that you can set a temperature and it will keep it...

Folks, My latest brew used 3kg of Maris Otter and 300g of crystal malt, with 120g in total of hops. After boiling, I ended up with 21 or so litres of beer that is currently fermenting. When I've used similar quantities I've ended up with an OG (after boil) that gave me an ABV of about 3.8%...

Has anyone done cask conditioned beer at home? I ask because I have a hand pump and occasionally get a [commercial] barrel in for birthdays, barbie etc. I'd really like to have a go at doing a cask, but am not sure whether any of the barrels you could get would be suitable. I am guessing it...

For my first brew (which turned out amazingly well!) I completely forgot to take any OG readings, so I have no idea about its strength! With my second brew I took the reading and have noted it. This time I sealed my [Wilko's] carboy properly with Vaseline and its been glooping away merrily...

Hi all, I've done one all grain batch of just over forty bottles and am amazed how well it's turned out. I really expected it to taste home made, but a few of us had a taster after it had sat in the bottles for a good couple of weeks and we all thought it tasted like bought beer! It's a very...