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I might be over thinking this but looking for a bit of advice. I have a 70 litre brew Kettle that I want to heat with electric (it's working volume will be more like 50 litres). I had it on a double hotplate but the base is domed so this didn't really work (it starts rocking!) I could add an...

Well it's been an interesting day so far! I thought my boiler had gone bang when heating up the liquor for the mash, turned out to be my extension.. i saw sparks, and it tripped the fuse.. Lagers going nicely though, just lautering it now, seems to be flowing well (I had a stuck bed on my last...

Hello All, I came across a cooler full of old grain that i'd forgotten about. I was going to chuck it but it seems fine, smells ok and looks ok. I figure it's getting boiled for at least 60 minutes so no harm in trying to make beer with it. At worst all i'm losing is time, some hops and yeast...

Hi all, I'm planning a stout.. I really want a go at sour mashing! I've been reading various different articles and just wanted to get some thoughts, on what you guys have tried and what worked well. My thinking is to do about 1/5 of the mash 3 days ahead of brew day, stick it in a tub...

I'm contemplating a lager, I've done a couple of lagers before but never been completely happy with them. I want a really clean tasting lager that isn't overly hopped, I'm the opposite of a hop head. Hippy beers are alright for a couple, but I like lager. I actually find it a bit frustrating...

Hi All, I've just bottled my last stout, which tasted lovely.. Real full bodied flavour from the taster I sampled, looking forward to drinking it after conditioning. Anyway, an experiment I did a while back has been bugging me, it was a lager, fermented at normal temps with Harris beer yeast...

Nice bit of pub trivia here, this last St Georges day was the 500th Anniversary of the mass adoption of the Reinheitsgebot. (German beer purity law) It was adopted across Bavaria on 23rd April 1516. Although it was first passed in 1487 for Munich.

I don't know how well this sill last, but I've upgraded my infusion mashing setup to HERMS for very little cash.. I already had: Burco Electric Boiler Wort Chiller Infusion Mash tun (Bucket in a bucket style) I've added: 5M 3/8 ID poly pipe (About £6) 6 Quick connect hose fittings (£1...

I've seen people recommend a couple of online places in previous threads but cant for the life of me remember where they were... I need some 10mm compression to 1/2" pipe thread fittings for my DIY on the mega cheap HERMS setup.

I have bottling / bottle conditioning pretty well sorted, and don't get much sediment, but still a good bit more than commercial bottle conditioned beers, which have barely noticeable amounts of sediment. Any thoughts on reducing sediment? I usually leave the beer in the primary for 2-3 weeks...

An update from me on Mash efficiency, I'm getting good results now after a poor start, and I think I've pretty much nailed single step infusion mashes now, so thought I'd share my experience. I've always been a bit wooly on sparging, some places say you need to sparge with 78C water, other...

I was at a bit of a loose end this aft so decided to out a brew in. It's almost a SMASH, it's a bluebird bitter clone, 4.2kg Maris otter 250g Crystal And Challenger hops, 23g fwh 23g start of boil 15g last 5 mins 15g dry hop, half a day before bottling I just checked the mash temp and...

I thought I would share this, so yesterday I decided to put another batch of Hobgoblin in (Last one went down oh so well). One of the issue's I've been having is that my mash efficiency isn't what I expect, in fact my overall efficiency is around 60% generally, where 75% seems to be an...

I feel like I've graduated. I don't feel like a noob anymore, so I though I would share what I've learned so far, for anyone who might be interested. 1 - If you want to brew all grain, its about having / making the equipment. Relax, its not as hard as you think it is. 2 - Recipe's often...

I was just sat thinking about this, I have a lager in at the moment and currently have a 30L boiler, which just isn't quite big enough for full 23 l batches. My last batch needed a few litres of water to make up the full volume which lowered the FG a bit (Still ok, just means it'll be around...

OK, so I have my lager in the fridge fermenting away nicely and a batch of hobgoblin in the bottle conditioning stage, planning a stout this weekend.. My intention is basically to brew a few different styles and see how they turn out! Back to the grass roots of home brew, I can't help but...

Just a quick one, I was planning to brew my first proper lager this weekend, fridge is sorted, temp controller will be done by then and I'm ready to go.. But, just realised the recipe that I have is for a US 5 gallon batch, not the UK 5 gallon that I thought.. I've brewed this before and...

I thought it was about time I signed up to this forum after a few weeks lurking in the shadows leeching from the wisdom of others. I have a new hobby - All grain brewing. I am a man of many hobbies, I can't help it, hobbies are addictive. Anyway the piano playing and toylander construction (for...