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Hi all, I'm a total novice wine maker, but I've been brewing beer since the mid 80s, kits, all grain. The lot. I have emigrated to Portugal, and fancy a dabble at real wine making, as we have friends with a vineyard. I want to use my beer equipment, so hopefully won't have to buy much else. Any...

Here's a good one for yawl. I've emigrated to Portugal 2 months ago, my brewing equipment mash tuns, boiler, barrels, fermentation fridge is all still in the UK with the rest of our personal belongings. We are shipping everything next month. While here I've been looking for grain suppliers...

Hi all. Anyone mash overnight ? Done it a few times year's ago, and it seemed to work fine. It's a big time saver on a brew day. Anyone a fan of it ?

Growing up in Manchester in the 70s/80s Boddies was the most beautiful beer that i can remember, creamy, easy drinking, wonderful stuff, i've tried it maybe twice since the old strangeways brewery closed in 95, and its total *****. Has anyone managed to emulate the old Boddies ? I was told the...

Dont know if anybody has tried this but here we go. I have a touring caravan, and want to take some of my beer with me, i have tried the mini keg thing, and didnt have much success tasted tinny. What i was going to try was transfering some beer thats conditioned into another pb, then CO2 flush...

Just picked up a lovely 55g drum. Keep thee old grain safe.

Just done my first A/G in a while, a nice Cascade smash. Trying the new wort cooler, hope it works 🍺🍺

Just got hold of a mint 30L cygnet. Replaced the tap for a 15mm gate valve total cost £7.78. Done two test boils today, superb. Can't wait to use it.

Hi everyone, been experimenting over the last 6 months with different hop pellets for dry hopping kits, and have noticed something quite interesting. I have been brewing the make your own IPA kits, and adding dry hops in pellet form after 7, or 8 days in the primary normally 100 grams. I have...

Is it me , or has anybody else noticed that medium DME dissolves a lot better in water than light DME ? With the light you tend to get the big clumps that take a while to stir out, no such problem with medium. Only thing i can think of is that its coarser. Any other suggestions ?

Was recently given an almost new 20l tea urn. My plan is to use it as a mash tun for my partial mash brewing, i no longer do full A/G brew's, because i dont want to boil large volume's, and to be honest i have done some great pimped kit's, just by adding mashed grain. I have tested the urn, and...

Hi Folk's. Art of brewing have the Mangrove Jack International Munich Lager kit's on offer at the moment for 3 for £32, with 3 x 2k of dextrose. It's a 1.7kg kit, and what little information i can find about them on the web it's a very hoppy IPA like beer. Anybody throw any light on these kit's ?