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I’m looking at doing mini brews because I find it fun however, to get around 5.4% i’ll need a grain bill of 2.5kg - would that be too big for a 12L pot?

Evening all, I’m looking at doing small batch all grain brews (12L yield) and i’m aware of buying stock pots etc but there’s issues surrounding maintaining heat control and trying to maintain a certain temp. That’s when I thought why can’t I just do a BIAB with a tea run or a “sparge water...

Happy Weekend all! Uh, as the title states really! Just curious to see other people’s grain bills with stouts! Mine is: 60 mins @ 65c 3.5kg Maris otter 500g Oats after that up to 76c for 20 mins add 250g Chocolate Malt 200g Chocolate Wheat 150g Roasted Barely 100g Cara 60 13g of Magnum @ 60mins

Afternoon all, I often get bored and was curious with regards to making a milk stout with a desert twist I use a generic milk stout recipe and i've seen online people add the bases of certain ingredients relative to what they're trying to achieve i.e. pecans, molasses etc... I own a SS...

Evening all, I'm currently planning to make a pineapple IPA recipe is as follows... 3.8kg pale malt 500g Caramalt 66c mash - 60 mis 75c mash out - 10 mins 19g Magnum @ 60 mins - 35IBU 15g Simcoe @ 10 mins 10IBU + Protofloc cool down and ferment to 18c with mangrove jacks M44 yeast Day 3 at...

Evening all, on a night shift I was chatting to a colleague who brews too. We got onto the topic of hooch and how easy we could make alcohol, being curious I boiled 2L of water added 500g of frozen mixed berries and 400g of sugar. Once mashed and muddled I sieved the remaining CLEAR - but red...

As the title states, i’ve brewed a stout kit today used rehydrates crossmyloof ale yeast and the fermentation has erupted!! Kicked off within 2 hours and now my blow off tube sounds like some heavy metal bass drum lol! I’ve left a good 4 inches as it never rises that far but it’s pressed...

Evening All, I'm brewing a St Peters cream stout kit next week and hope to turn it into a clone of Stealth breweries Mint Spy (Sweet mint stout), I'm no stranger to sweet stouts and I think they're great. I've currently got a tincture of vanilla absolute and soaking 3g of shredded mint leaves...

Evening all, I’m going to be brewing a clone of Mint spy (sweet mint stout) and was curious as to whether I could condition in a corny keg? Ideally i’d like to leave it 6 months and serve around Christmas time, my thinking behind this would be to charge the keg with a Co2 bulb and purge a few...

Evening All, I'm looking at buying and brewing up the above mentioned kit, I've conditioned stouts before in bottles etc and it's got me thinking... Could you condition in a corny keg? So once fermented and transferred i'd charge the keg with a single Co2 bulb and re-charge say every two weeks...

Evening all, with regards to carbing up my beer... I've read that you should use a cup of water to dissolve the sugar for a 23L batch, i've got two 8L batches and they'll be bottled up soon. With that in mind should i scale the water down or keep it at a cup per batch? I need to use 40g of sugar...

There’s a few spots on my vanilla choc stout krausen that look quite odd, as a newbie this doesn’t look right to me but to some of you chaps might say it’s normal. The Double choc one on the other hand is going along nicely!

Happy Thursday all! Now a few evenings a go i ordered 3 packets of Crossmyloof us-Pale Ale Yeast, it was my error due to amazons one click purchasing i ordered this instead of the real ale yeast. I plan to use a stout beer kit tomorrow and was curious as to if i make a starter would the yeast i...

Good Evening all, with regards to splitting one can kits... would it be possible to warm 4 litres of water (to 'dissolve' the kit) and then split the 4 litres between two fermenters? I've just bought Chocmeister from wilkos new range and want to brew two lots of 9L it's supposed to be a 22L kit...

Hello Everyone! The other day I embarked on my first all grain brew, I had an issue initially with keeping the mash temp at 67c but managed eventually to maintain it. I made a Galaxy Smash (maris otter) and aimed for an 8L batch, OG read 1.042 and today 6 days later reads 1.005. The only issue i...