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Thought I'd just add my recent delivery escapade with GEB! Subsequently my LAST order for GEB. I'm out. Yesterday I had a bit of a meltdown kind of day and ordered some grain and yeast on GEB. Then I realised that I forgot to add something, so I emailed asking if I could order it with...

That's my last order with GEB. I responded to their email asking for additional payment for next day delivery, and explained that I'd made 3 separate orders in the same day totalling £17.85 of delivery alone. And I said "Could we both agree that on this occasion I have paid enough delivery to...

Handy to know, thanks. I'll bear that in mind. Still would be good to keep yeast going if it's the kind I use all the time. GEB don't seem to care TBH. I missed a couple of things off my order yesterday and wanted to order 2 more items (individually as I forgot twice), I emailed asking if I...

I see.. I think this looks a bit too much like guess work for me. I think I'll just go with a starter which is larger than needed and save just enough to make another starter and just keep going like that, at least I'll have a better idea of what I'm doing. My main idea here (aside from just...

I think I'm struggling to get my actual question across, that or I'm struggling to understand the answers. Let's say for example, I have a nice big jar of yeast labelled up in the fridge dormant, which I've multiplied and multiplied over time. Let's say for arguments sake, it's 2L of yeast...

So I don't actually intend on harvesting any yeast actually (well not right now anyway), but I have a WYeast starter in the fridge which I didn't use. So I was thinking about growing it, by adding fresh DME mix to the yeast from time to time. Then when I have enough clean yeast to separate to a...

If I were to harvest yeast and keep it going, how do I know how much to use in a brew? I've never gone beyond the smak packs or dry yeast packets. Is there a way to work it out? Or is it for example a couple of spoons?

Yeah, not too fussed about the 02 in this beer. I've taken it right down to 4psi, and leaving it to fizz out. As above, a master brewer told me that you get more flavour out of priming as opposed to for carbing.

This is something I am going to address, as I don't think it's long enough. I'm using the regular stiff beer line, and I think it's about 3 meters. But I think I may move to PVC pipe, and calculate the length leaving some looped at the top of the fridge. I'm not overly concerned about the...

Does anyone prime in a cornie keg? I've only force carbonated in the keg, but wondering whether priming in the keg and thus conditioning would enhance the flavour somewhat? I've been struggling with carbonation. My recent west coast IPA (the best beer I've made I must add), is simply...

Since I won't have time to brew this week, I've been this week I've been tinkering with the recipe. https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/588511/jongaarden What are your thoughts about adding 1kg of Pilsner Malt to this? Because, my efficiency is lately a little poorer than my...

Yep, it's almost time to brew. Not going to find time to do it this week unfortunately..but next week I'll be brewing for sure.

Probably not wort the risk of it turning out rubbish. So I'll look into which yeast to use.

I've just been researching this and it seems there is much confusion. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/hoegaarden-yeast-chimay-strain.182390/ Some posts on here discussing the issue but it seems the general consensus is that it's re-yeasted with the same yeast.

While the grain bill seems to be a bit of a nightmare, there have been multiple queries as to the best yeast. Just a thought.. but since hoegaarden is bottle conditioned. What about harvesting the yeast from 3-4 bottles of hoegaarden? I'd get to drink them first too... win-win! What are...

I've got 20 KG of this stuff and it's not listed in Brewers Friend. Which is making recipes with it tricky to say the least. Is there something I can do to get the malt added? Or can I use something else in BF as an equivalent malt to get the recipes accurate?

Thanks for the link, but as a newbie I'm not too sure how to read it. I guess I don't really know what Diast...... power is! I can do some research, but is there an easy way of reading the table on the clear choice pale page?

I bought this one a while back: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074GQ4QR1/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 It's good. I just bought cheap ribbed bags on ebay.. and it all seems to work pretty well. I've had a couple of bags fail and air get in but in the number I've used, it's literally 1 or...

Interesting concept of using a smak pack and no starter. I haven't heard much about over pitching being an issue to wit beers. It seems yeast in general seems to be an issue with wit beers.

Well, thanks to Intel and the announcement of Spectre and Meltdown, I won't be going anywhere near any brewing equipment today! Which is probably a blessing in disguise because I clearly need to do a lot more research if I want this attempt (step one in the saga), to be a remote success! Do you...