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Has anyone measured the difference between the edge and the centre of the FV? I have my plastic fv sat in a temp controlled water bath I currently have the stc-1000 temp probe taped to the side of the plastic fv with a layer of insulation between the probe and the cooler air. the temp control is...

Hi all This old pit is under the floor of my garage. I've never really considered it any use but I did occur to me the other day that it might be a good place to age beer or even store it at cellar temp over the summer. So I put a max/min thermometer in there over the last week and it's been...

Hi all I cant get through to my Gas people (Woodlands in thirsk) and i'm nearly out. So I might have to switch to Sodastream Cylinders for a while. Has anyone using one of these adapters? anything I should consider at all? looks straight-forward enough.

Hi Just wanted to reintroduce myself. I was quite active in Jim's and a bit here 10+ years ago. Then I married, moved house and spent ten years renovating houses and having a couple of kids. The house is pretty much finished and the kids are old enough to help now so we dug out the kit and got...

I've been thinking about the relative sweetness of Crystal malts (as you do); I have a brew which used MO, Munich, Light Crystal and dark crystal malt. The colour and body is great but the back-draft is a bit cloyingly sweet. I want to adjust the sweetness without effecting the rest of the...

I had a bottle conditioned Marble Brewery Dobber last night and it was pretty much fantastic in every way! Extreamly clean taste and feel but fruty at the same time and with a really unique hop character. Is anyone familiar? Do you know the hops? I think Nelson sauvin might be in there from...

Planning a 40 IBU Pale Ale with chinook and some Bobek, I'd like lots of late and dry hop flavour. Do you think Bobek and chinook would work together? I was thinking Chinook to bitter, Bobek to steep and more chinook in Dry? Any thoughts? Anyone tried this combo?

I've started a 1.5L starter of White labs Cal' Ale ready for a 23L brew At the weekend. But Works sending me down south for a week at short notice so brew's off. I was going to chill and decant the starter beer off anyway; I know it's not optimum but do you think it will be ok in a very cold...

I have properly cocked up my latest brew. I brewed on sunday; everything went very well apart form two new additions to my process. The first was the new Airstone and the second was the aquarium heater. I put the Airstone in too early and by the looks of it for too long while the Boiler was...

If you've read this before I've already asked on Jims but didnt get a single answer. I don't know if anyone here's got any experience of this. I had a demijon of Double IPA; the alcohol content would be up at between 9% and 10%. The yeast was US-05 and it worked very well finishing at 1.011. I...

I have 1-14 range test papers, but to accurately test the PH of the mash do we use a more exact type of test paper? I've noticed there are such things for cheese making! What do you use? and where do you get it?

I'm planning a pale ale: 95% MO 5% Crystal 1.5% Torrified Wheat I have Aurora Hops AA 8.1% (Super Styrian) and Bobek (Stryrian Goldings) AA 5.2% that I'd like to use. Is anyone familiar with these two? I've never used either before. I'm thinking Aurora to bitter (and dry hop) and Bobek to...

I've already asked this on Jim's if it sounds familiar to anyone; but I didn't get any replys. I might have more luck here. I've just took my first glass of my latest brew. It'a some sort of an India dark ale or perhaps an Amber ale. I'm really pleased with this one because there are no obvious...

As a tempory/backup solution to getting a regulated supply of Gas for my Corny I'd like to use a SodaStream adaptor onto my Pub regulator to charge the keg. I've seen these things on american and australian sites but they're expensive to get shipped to the UK and they often talk about left-hand...

I pitched US-05 yesterday; its the first time I've used anything other than a Nottingham or an SO4. 12g rehydrated in wort pitched into 23L, 1.060SG. I think the piching rate was fine I got bubbles in under 90 min so I fitted a blow off tube as is standard practice with nottingham and stood...

I'm brewing in the morning, I dont know if your anything like me but at this point I keep pacing back and forth to BeerSmith every two minuits tweaking. I want to make somthing akin to the big american IPA's that are a bit cloudy and arnt all that pale. I'm settled on a grain bill (for 23L)...

Hi I usually hand around Jims forum; but it's getting a bit flat there so I thought I might have a look at the TheHomeBrewerForum. I brew AG in 2gal or 5gal batches and I'm mainly interested im making american style ales but I'll try (fermenting) anything. Looking forward to taking part!