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Hi all, has anyone successfully cultured yeast from a Franziskaner bottle? Is it just a case of adding some boiled, cooked DME solution to the yeast cake and watching it grow? Cheers, Tim

Hi, happy Wednesday all! Anyone have the misfortune to run one of these temp controllers? Put a beer in the ferm fridge a week ago, and my trusty STC-1000 wouldn't play ball- the "up"arrow ceased to be!! In Spain, the only thing I could get hold of quickly was the EK1000, which looks as if it...

Hi all, happy Thursday! I knocked up a Mangrove Jack Juicy IPA kit yesterday, here in Spain, but as the weather is so hot, it took ages (about 6 hrs) to get to pitching temperature, by which time the foamy head had collapsed and the wort was flat. I now realise I should've re aerated it, but...

Hi all, happy Humpday! Found a couple of out of date Festival Summer Glory kits in the back of a cupboard couple weeks ago, so I knocked'em up, without the elderflower-cant stand the flavour- and started ferment with new Wilko yeast. Then went away for work, left'em bubbling away at 19°. Got...

Hi all, happy Thursday!! Due to a malfunction of my STC 1000 controller not turning on the heating elements in my brew fridge, my latest brews got stuck at about 13°c for about 12 hrs after pitching. Now, 36hours later, there's no activity at all (*MJ M44 yeast). Is it worth re-pitching with...

Might sound like a dumb question, but how is Kviev pronounced? Is it Kwak? Sorry if it's a stupid question!!

Hi, having recently bought a holiday home near Malaga, I've found a Spanish cookery online store that does an increasing amount would the of HB stuff. Due to no temp control here, I've ordered a couple of the MJ Kviev kits, as the temperature is still 30° or thereabouts!! Sadly they don't seem...

Hi all, happy Saturday! Just dropped a bollock last night, after a few bevvies, when I put 2 kit brews into cold crash, after 2 weeks, but missed the dry hop stage... It's got down to 2.5°, what's best to do? Let it come back up to 19° slowly, then dry hop? Hoping it won't spoil 2 batches...!!!

Hi, anyone figured out a way of using a floating dip tube in a growler? Obvs, the stainless balls I use in cornys won't fit in the narrow neck... Have bought some small fishing floats, but they have holes in them, with silicone bungs, but they appear to leak, and it'll onl be worse under...

Hi, completed my 5th AG brew yesterday, in my Brewzilla. A simple Mosaic single hop with MO and 200g carapils. Using my smaller pressure FV for the first time, and pitched US04 about 7pm last night. Left the spunding valve open overnight to avoid over pressuring the FV, and this is what I found...

Hi all, thought I'd share a quick technique I've just devised to harvest Co2 in a normal, non-pressurised FV. I was keen to do this, as I was aware that when taking samples for gravity checks, I was introducing oxygen through the bubbler, and I'm brewing light, hoppy APA- type beers, which...

Hi all, happy 2021!! Having started AG last year, I haven't done any kits recently, but as stocks were getting low, I bought a couple of RB kits. Threw one together on Jan 7th, and it took off like a rocket!! Just looked in the box for the hops, and I found the big bag (650g) of dextrose...

Hi all, and Happy New Year!! Anyone used this freezer as a keezer? If so, how many Cornies do you get in it? Can't find the interior dimensions anywhere... Thanks all.

Hi, and season's felicitations to you all!! Having successfully moved from bottling to using Cornies, I find myself tripping over a big pile of crated 500ml bottles. They've all been rinsed after use, and will probably only need a quick rinse/sanitise before next use.... I'm in Berkshire...

Hi, just taken a peek in the fern fridge, and was shocked to see the temperature at 15.4,°c... Not as disastrous as overheating, but still very disappointing when you've got supposed temp control, with an STC 1000, and a tube heater. Controller set for 19.5°c, not calling for heat. Swopped it...

Hi, hope you're all keeping well and safe. Just wanted to run this by you before I commission it, to see whether you find it workable, and above all, safe? Waiting on the fourth secondary regulator and the threaded barbs, then it's time to test it... Would hard 8mm line or soft plastic be...

Hi hive minds, been idly fiddling this morning with bits I have in the shed, whilst waiting for my Fermzilla to arrive. Came up with this plan: Had some car Schrader valves knocking about, and wondered, just wondered, if they'd fit the top bung of a minikeg... Wheel, whaddya know, like it...

Hi. Any HVAC engineers lurking here? Just acquired a big pub-type beer fridge, non working when I got it, but cleaned the compressor relay contact and away it went! Only problem is that the maximum temperature achievable with the inbuilt control is 10°C, which is a little low for me. Was...

Hi all, anyone done this kit and had it stick at around 1012? Been in FV for 17 days, at 18.5° in ferm fridge, and last 3 days it hasn't budged... Still airlock activity, so I've upped the temperature to 19.5 now, see if that kick-starts it again!! Smells lovely from the samples, though!!

Hi all, not strictly a what I'm drinking query, but can't seem to find the "post new thread" button... Is it possible to fill bottles from a cask-conditioned cask? I ask because I may have the chance to buy a 9gallon pin (??) from my recently-closed pub, and have loads of bottles. The beer is...