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a few of the home brewers here in Canada do this but they add a percentage of fresh grain to it to up the alcohol content and change its flavour, e.g. they make a 8% IPA then add a little more base malt, dark grains and crystal malt to turn the second batch into a porter style beer etc. Some...

This often happens if you have a leak on the tap side... alternatively if you change your tap configuration so that you have a 5-6ft beverage line between the keg and the tap you will find that it will pour a lot better and with less head.

Brewed up a 10gal batch of harvest ale using Marris otter, plisner malt and crystal 150, 1oz of Columbus at 60 min for bittering , 3oz of cascade at 10min, 1lb fresh wet hops at 5min, and fermenting half with a wild yeast I captured off apples in my brother in laws garden and the other half with...

Here in Toronto we do a club bulk buy, we teamed up with one of the home brew supply stores and we do 2 bulk buys a year. We pay the same per sack as the home brew store + $5 which we receive back in a gift card, we do full sacks but also a partial page where people can split a sack between 4 or...

I always want to know my SG so that I know what alcohol percentage I have at the end and also how efficient my brew day was. while filling my carboy I just lift the hose out of the carboy and allow some to flow into a cup without the hose touching anything... I have done this with every batch...

In the mash right now, brewing up a 10 gal batch of best bitter using Marris otter, Canadian 2 row, crystal 60, crystal 120, chocolate malt and roasted barley then hopping with 2oz Fuggles for 60 min, 2oz EKG for 30 min then 2oz of EKG for 5 min and fermenting with Nottingham ale yeast...

I have used tap water for all my brewing in several different locations here in Canada and the only problem I have ever had was a medicinal flavour which was resolved by using campden tablets in my brewing water every time I brew. One of the other things that people often do which can cause off...

Just wanted to say a quick hello and introduce myself. I moved to Canada 10 years ago and started brewing 8 years ago, I brew all grain on propane and originally started as I missed a lot of the English ales I used to get back home. Fortunately over the last 10 years Canada has really been...