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Isn't ph a measure of alkalinity/acidity?

Im in Chorlton myself so will try to get down to the next meeting, was all up for the last meeting and something came up. Unfortunately no meeting date on the FB page as yet. Font isn't bad for a scoop or two as well!

2 days after bottling? What about carbonation? Forgive me if I'm sounding ignorant but are certain beers served flat? As well as starting out home brewing I'm also starting out exploring the world of beers after spending most of my life drinking your typical British Bitter. Loads of fun with...

Hi Im a new brewer and I'm a bit confused by the conditioning process. Secondary fermentation I do understand but what I don't understand is which beers should be left to mature. From reading around I'm lead to believe that your typical British bitter should be pretty much fresh after its...

It's a considerable amount of money but it seems there are plenty of people selling up their equally pricey SS setups to buy one. I don't think they are bad value for money. Any hobby you look at will have cheap kit and expensive fancy stuff, have seen plenty of folk spending four times as much...

The stew that is

You could stick some red wine in too!

So the Landlord finest has been on the go for 9 days. Looks like its approaching its final gravity but as I took a sample today to check the gravity I noticed a couple of things. Firstly it appeared that a shiny oil like film has formed. Didn't notice it in the sample jar but the surface looked...

So got this underway on Sunday evening. Came back to it bubbling away on Monday evening. Now its in a very cold kitchen so I have had it on a warming mat and on Monday it showed 22 degrees. By last night it had slowed and dropped to 20. Now its at 18. Bit worried that my warmer has packed in or...

After some encouragement from Rockuronium I have got my first kit on the go Festival Ale's Landlords Finest. Seems to be going ok but have questions I will post on the proper thread.