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The idea of this thread is that we pick a commercial beer each month and you have a month to source it, try it and review it here. We can then compare notes and maybe even come up with some recipe ideas. For February we have a suggestion from @-Bezza- which was seconded by @Zephyr259 February...

The idea of this thread is that we pick a commercial beer each month and you have a month to source it, try it and review it here. We can then compare notes and maybe even come up with some recipe ideas. For January, it was decided that beer of the month should be the winner from the recent...

20 brews in and I've just had my first disappointment. I was attempting to brew an all grain APA for friends and family at Christmas and used the Gammaray recipe from the Brewdog book 'Craft Beer for the People' as a starting point. The beer has been conditioning in the keg for 13 days and I...

While recently voting for Hoddy's Beer World Cup, it struck me that I haven't tried a large number of the beers that you good folks chose as your absolute favourites. After some discussion over on that thread the seed for Beer of the Month was planted. The idea of this thread is that we pick a...

Is it just me, or is this not a very nice beer? It reminds me of drinking Skol when I was 16. Wondering if maybe I bought some old cans that are badly packaged or something?!

This is a gorgeous beer. I head to Belgium fairly often in my campervan and Tourpes is now on my itinerary for my next visit.

Just noticed this was reduced from £20 to £7 on Amazon and bagged a copy. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784722952/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 Had a look in Waterstones and seems a real nice book. Has a few recipes in including Beavertown Gammaray. Thought others might fancy a copy at that...

I recently bought some 75% phosphoric acid for reducing the alkalinity of my tap water after reading of others on here using similar. Now I have the bottle and I'm reading the warnings all over it, my question is this: Can I use a plastic syringe to measure and dose it? I have both 1ml and 5ml...

Looking for some confirmation from the collective mind that what I am planning is good practice or if not then any suggestions. I have 1 gallon of a cider in a demijohn that has fermented out completely. I'd like to stabilise it then bulk age it before transferring to a keg at a later date for...

Took a chance on one of these 6.6L Chinese cannonball kegs and it arrived today. I'm pleasantly surprised at the quality! Stainless steel, removable ball lock posts, stainless dip tube and gas tube, prv similar to my cornies. Anybody else using these? I fancy using it to set up a draught...

Our latest Homebrew Club challenge here in York is to brew a fruit beer and I'm thinking of attempting a Banana Saison. I'm wondering who has brewed with bananas before please and at what point/how you added them to the process? My initial thoughts were that for a 12L batch I would chop and...

At Homebrew club this week, the guys were trying to talk me into be building a coolbox mash tun and ditching the bag. That ended up with me starting my endless research (like I do) and I came across this. Exbeeriment here Does having an all singing all dancing stainless mash tun make for...

Anybody else tried out the new Brulosophy podcast which was published last week? Some interesting discussion about trub from the boil kettle into the fermenter. I've tried other podcasts and found there is just too much boring small talk not brewing related. I really enjoyed this new one...

Well thanks to the very generous @inkbird and their recent giveaway my STC1000 arrived today! Now scouring gumtree/eBay/freecycle for a fridge! I've cleared a space in the workshop ready. Plenty of people have told me this will be a big step in improving consistency of brewing. Will document...

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Hi, Last night I brewed an AG DIPA and brew day went really well with one exception... I overshot my OG by a long way. Target was 9L in the fermenter @ 1.059 I ended up with 9.25L @ 1.067 This was my first time using Beersmith2 on my mobile and it is calculating that my mash efficiency was...

I grabbed a Cooper's Stout kit in the recent Tesco gold rush and I'm wondering what to do with it. I usually brew in a 15L fermenter with around 8-12L volume of wort. If I wanted to brew the Cooper's kit really short, say 12L, is there a way I can calculate how much brew enhancer to add...

I'm wanting to have a go at adding a hop tea to one of my brews. Looking for a little advice. Is it usual to add the tea to the bottling bucket? If so, is it possible to steep the hops in the priming solution? Do the hops need to be steeped in a wort or just water? What sort of...

AG #2 Based on Greg Hughes Raspberry Wheat So after the success of my EKG SMaSH in December, it's AG #2 for me today and I want to attempt to get a better hold on water volumes. I've picked a simple recipe and it's another small batch BIAB with a 10min dunk sparge. I'm aiming for 8L in the FV...

I have a Wherry to put on soon and I'm wondering whether to boost it our not. It mainly has great reviews other than the odd stuck ferment, so part of me thinks I should brew by the instructions. However, my last kit (Wilko Cerveza) also gets pretty good reviews generally and I was...