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Hi All, I've currently got a Saison on the go with Omega OYL-042 Belgian Saison II, currently gone from 1061 to 1010 in around 5 days and now it's literally trickling with activity but still going... First brew with a Belgian yeast so is the 'last leg' of fermentation always this slow ? How...

I have a SS Brewtech 7 Gal Chronical and I'm considering purchasing the glycol chiller plus the whole FTS2 system with heat pad. Some yeast now preferring higher fermentation temperatures (Kviek, Belgians) my question is around how high can you get the fermentation vessel wort using just the...

Howdy folks... Had a Brewdog Mallow Mafia on the weekend, it was so good, I mean really good ! It's being brewed... No questions Found the recipe on DIY dog which calls for 30g Cascade at the beginning, and 30g Cascade towards the end. This will impart, at best, 25 IBU into the beer however...

I made a Kolsch recently with Imperials G03 Dieter yeast which had temperature range of 16-20c. The beer though had a huge amount amount of banana flavor & aroma too it. Whilst my ferm fridge was set at 18c the extra heat generated through fermentation clearly put it higher and pumped out...

Howdy Folks, Just been planning the next brew and something has just occurred to me... I create my water profile but never take into consideration the campden tablet I always add to my water to remove Chlorine. Does the chemical make up of a tablet change the water profiles ? How do we adjust...

So brewed a nice Citra based IPA on Monday and had some bottles cold conditioning in my Fermentation Fridge... Can you see where this is going ? I set the temperature stat back to 19c for fermentation but forget to 'set' it so next morning I'd cold crashed my lovely wort and newly pitched...

So my corny keg is set up as follows... Pressured my beer at 30psi for 2/3 days, drop to 2/3 psi to pour and my beers come out like this... You can tell the beer is crab'd but the amount of head i get is stupid. I don't get this in bottles... How do I reduce the head or get a...

Using water straight from the tap without any treatment leave the generally accepted PH ranged for mash, wort etc WAY out ! I'm not sure what the generally home brewer though can do to reduce the PH values. AMS is cut with Sulphuric Acid but its a carbon reducing solution, so surely adding in...

So I'm going to an experiment soon that involves using 4 different types of yeast. Splitting an initial brew means I only need a 1/4 of the yeast within my packets so... I can create yeast starters for the remaining yeast so I can use them at a different time but my question is how best to...

Everything that I've brewed to date has been completely different in terms of recipe however there is an underlying taste that is the same throughout all beers that I'm trying to pinpoint... The only consistencies throughout all my brewing has been Maris Otter as a base malt and I've always...

Howdy All I bought some tea strainers from eBay a while back and used them for the first time this week. They are something like this... eBay Strainer My actual one... free image upload no sign up I used them for dry hopping. I used 100g off hops in a single strainer (300g of...

I bought a refractometer a while back but never really used it, guess I just trusted the hydrometer more. During todays brew however I took a whole load of readings and to me these are all wrong which is not helping my trust... Can anyone make sense of these ? Do they need some adjusting ...

Ok so I've searched for this but so many threads out there almost impossible to find relevant ones... I have a simple ACE boiler bag for brewing, boil sparge water on my hob, copper chiller for my wort and a fermentation fridge with an Inkbird... I can make beer with that all day long to a...

So I posted something around dry hopping the other day and how to extract more from the hops, lose less taste and aroma and it got me thinking... There must be a set list of top level items that improve your beer and its consistency from brew to brew. I'm not talking about different methods to...

Made a few brews now and one thing I've noticed is that the dry hopping doesn't impart as much flavour as I think it should have done into my brews now... Made a hoppy Zombie dust and Punk IPA clone and whist both enjoyable they should have a much heavier hop smell and taste than what they...

Hi All, Completed my first BIAB a few weeks back and finally had a taste of it today. Overall I'm damn happy with the results ! I've brewed many a kit and this is by far the best... What I'm after though is some ideas on making it feel less thin in the mouth ? Started with around 4.5kg...