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As I'm sure many of us partake in odd DIY activities over the weekend (or even in the week) thought it might be amusing to have a thread of what went well for you, what you've achieved, what went bad and so on 😁

Out in the garage doing something or other yesterday and happened to look up at my brew fridge controller, heat light on, 13°C, feck. Not sure how long it had been like that, put a MJ Chocolate Brown ale on at the weekend, looks like it got going but the kruasen had subsided due to the...

Just spotted this, no idea if it's any good but hey it's free (without needing Kindle Unlimited)! Add it to your Kindle library now as these offers never seem to last for long: Homebrew Beer: Learn How to Brew Beer At Home ~ Includes a List of Homebrew Supplies and Homebrew Recipes eBook ...

I've come to the conclusion I must have a small leak somewhere in my system. The first cylinder of CO2 I had (6.35kg) lasted well over a year, I had to change suppliers and now have 5kg cylinders but my usage hasn't really changed so would expect maybe a year out of a refill but I get maybe 5...

https://www.aldi.co.uk/stainless-steel-mulled-wine-warmer/p/810226570999500 https://www.aldi.co.uk/black-mulled-wine-warmer/p/810227570999700 Looks kind of interesting. Certainly could be used as a sparge water heater. Might hold a boil if hacked around (i.e. bypass the thermostat). .

Alerted to this from the Brew2Bottle newsletter. Seems like Muntons have brought out a brand new extract range hopped and unhopped along with a web app to design your own beer or choose from some ready made recipes https://homebrew.muntons.com/BuildYourBrew Looks quite interesting as the...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-down-instagram-whatsapp-today-b1932059.html Might have to do some work 😮 Forgot to pay the electricity bill?

A friend of ours asked if I was interested in buying any of his home brew stuff as he's giving up. I knew he did a bit of all grain brewing but had no idea as to his setup, kind of assumed he'd be doing BIAB or something like that. Thought if he had a boiler I might be interested in that as I...

If you didn't see it last night then it may be worth a watch. Main focus of last night's Countryfile was on the hop growing farms of Bromyard, Herefordshire and in particular Brook House Farm who are trying to champion British grown hops to craft breweries both here and abroad. A mate of mine...

In case anyone wants some craft ale that they haven't made themselves Brew York are currently clearing stock ready for new beers (apparently) so it's 15% off everything on the web store and free delivery over £50. All automatically applied. I've had their beers before and they've all been...

And for once it looks like the weather is going to play ball. Off to the Gower Peninsula tomorrow with the caravan for the week, can't wait to hit the beach and do some body boarding with the kids, then beers & BBQ. Hope you all have a great weekend and/or half term if you have kids. Feel...

My CO2 cylinder ran out, no big deal you would think aside from having a load of beer trapped in my Cornys... 😥 So first port of call, the place the cylinder came from, an Adams Gas stockist that happens to be a motor factors. No cylinders available, not sure when they can get one, but looking...

Thinking about dabbling in some extract brewing this year, never know might lead to me doing some BIAB stuff, but either way I'd quite like to be able to boil at full volume. Now having seen a few guides I was going to make my own boiler as I don't want to spend too much however it seems that...

In my early days of brewing I used to just pitch dried yeast on top of the wort as per most kit instructions and generally everything went okay. Then I had a few failed brews intermittently where either the yeast didn't start or got stuck and I've never had much luck restarting stuck brews. My...

Potentially stupid question but here goes, I don't currently own a pressure thingy... I usually dry hop my brews when fermentation is all but over, normally lob the hops in, leave 2-3 days, cold crash 1-2 days, keg. Now with a pressure fermenter at the point when I would do this I'm assuming...

So on Saturday night I kegged my latest beer, a Beerworks Captain Cook's Amber Ale. Nothing particularly special about that but since since increasing my Cornelius keg population from 2 to 6 at the start of lock down I've been brewing pretty much non stop and now all 6 of them have beer or...

Cheap temperature controlled mash tun? https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/kitchen-essentials/silvercrest-electric-fruit-preserver-jam-maker/p31314?ar=14 Saw it an immediately thought home brew...

The realisation that the home brew kit you buy will probably never fully pay for itself 😅 I've been meaning to switch to Cornelius kegs for some time and had already bought a second hand tall fridge quite a while back in readiness. Late last year I got the premium keg kit from BrewKegTap and...

Still consider myself very much on the learning curve with Cornys, gas etc. Made a bit of a school boy error last night that I hopefully won't repeat. Decided to burst carbonate my latest brew so after getting it in the keg set the regulator for 40 psi and left it for a day. Went to drop it...

Luckily I glanced at the Inkbird whilst out in the garage getting something or other, my current brew had dropped to 16°C but the heat LED was solidly on. The alarm was set for 15°C but I'm not sure I'd hear it out there anyway. Swapped the fermenter to my second brew fridge which was...