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I want to make a raspberry chocolate Russian imperial stout, the Russian imperial part based on greg hughes recipe. I have been looking at recipes online and the amount of cocoa powder and raspberries varies a lot especially the raspberries. I am doing a 20l batch and was going to add in 200g...

Strawberry beer brew day today, almost my target OG of 1.042, got 1.041 so I'm happy with that. Strawberries are going into secondary.

I hope this is the right place to post this but I am trying to set up a home brew club around the Newcastle area. I have set up a twitter page so far to get the ball rolling and would like to make the meet ups once a month. Hopefully I can drum up some interest. NE Home Brew Club...

I was wondering what else is suitable to store in corny kegs, I am going to be making some cider so would corny kegs be OK for cider? Also could you store wine in them too?

So I've just finished fermenting a milk stout, I was expecting an ABV of about 6.5% but it's come out at 4.7%. The OG was 1062 and FG is 1026, I used crossmyloof real ale yeast and it seemed to be a perfect fermentation, didn't look like it got stuck anywhere. My maris otter malt is about 6 or 7...

I'm going to very making a strawberry beer, something similar to Timmermans, and will be adding defrosted frozen strawberries into secondary. I'm going to be leaving it in secondary for a week, will the strawberries be OK for a week or should I add them in closer to the end of secondary?

Finally got my hands on a second hand fridge freezer to turn into a kegerator. Next step is to order my taps and CO2 splitter and to make sure there's so inner workings in the side of the fridge so I don't hit anything when I drill through.

At what stage would you recommend adding lactose into the boil for a milk stout?

The rest of my ingredients arrived today for the next 5 brews. First time using Cross my loof yeast but I've heard good things from other people.

Just wondered if anyone knows the best way to attach 3/8 gas line to one of these? Ideally I'd like to change the barbs for John guest fittings, does anyone know what size the screw threads on the input and outputs?

I am going to be brewing a Kolsch soon but was wondering how long I should leave it in the corny keg before its at its best to drink?

So I'm going to be building a kegerator soon from a second hand fridge and wondered what type of drill bit to use to drill the holes in the door. I have some of the below drill bits in different sizes but I think these are designed to be used on wood. Will these work on a metal fridge door or do...

Has anyone got a good strawberry beer recipe, lager based rather than ale. I'm looking for something along the lines of Fruli or Timmermans, my Google searching didn't really find anything that really did it for me.

I'm sure this has probably been answered on here before but do people generally dry hop in secondary? If you only primary ferment for around 4 days before putting into secondary then it would make more sense to dry hop in secondary to ensure all the aroma and flavours are extracted from the hops...

I am looking get a kegerator set up at some point and obviously need some taps. There seems to be 3 main types to choose from, the difference mainly being the shape and size of the spout. Which type do people use themselves and think is the best type for me to go for?

I was wondering how people generally keep their corny kegs cold if they don't use a fridge. I have a fridge to keep my kegs in in the garage but want to move the keg(s) into the house from time to time for parties etc. It would be ideal if there was something similar to a heat belt that did the...

Has anyone tried the crossmyloof yeast yeast you can buy on eBay? It's pretty reasonably priced but always wary of yeasts I haven't tried or heard of. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262989910125

I want to buy a spanner to help get my corny keg posts off and have been looking around on Google for what size to get. There seems to be 2 thoughts, 22mm and 7/8 which are pretty similar anyway. 22mm are far easier to get hold of, does it make much difference which size you get?

This might be a stupid question but at what stage exactly does wort become beer? As soon as it starts fermenting? When it's finished fermenting etc?

I've seen a few posts on the Internet about what people use to clean their beer lines from official line cleaner to bleach. What is the best thing to use that is reasonably cheap, is there anything you can use that you might already have lying around the house?