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Hi all, I haven't been on here for quite a while due to a family illness. I have decided as my dad is unable to brew anymore I am selling our equipment. I have a couple of corny kegs, stainless steel grain father fermentation vessel, various other items here too. I am in Swansea South Wales. I...

I've decided to put up for sale my Grain father setup due to my Dad having ill health and me not having any spare time and unable to use the equipment as my Dad is shielding. I have the following and lots of other bits and pieces which I would sell as a job lot or individually. Everything I...

I'm in the process of setting up fermentrack using A RPI and wemos do modules on my home network which I also want to view/control remotely. My worry is that someone could hack into my system and mess up my brews/ access my other devices. What would be the best route to secure my local and...

Hi, I built my own fermentation chamber back in February this year with heat only and now in the summer months I'm struggling to maintain a steady 18 degrees. Being new to the brewing game I'm learning as I'm going along, made a lot of mistakes and decided that It would be more beneficial if I...

I'm looking for advice as where I can purchase a 25kg sack of Maris otter close to the Swansea area. I've got quite a few hops in storage which I want to try out a few smash recipies to see which one I like the best. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

I've decided on having a go at making a wow and purchced some juice from Iceland. I've got red grape X 2, apple juice and orange juice all in 1 litre bottles. The sugar content is as follows per litre .red grape 65g, apple 115g and orange 100g. What quantities would be advisable to use to make a...

I made an all grain ipa on Saturday which is fermenting in a glass carboy at 18 degrees. I removed the cap on day 4 to add 40g of cascade and since then I havent seen any more signs of fermentation. I'm assuming that fermentation has completed and turned temp up to 21 degrees . I used 4.1 kg of...

Hi guys I managed to grab a few hours on Saturday to make a mosaic ipa with our new setup which took around 6 hours . Brewing was a breeze with everything in place and water plumbed in to each piece of equipment . I made a cut down version of a crafty brews mosaic ipa by reducing hop and grain...

I'm a novice to the brewing scene and after making a couple of brews using the grain father and spending countless hours looking at you tube and various Brewing websites I've come up with my interpretation of a process from brew day to serving the beer. I need some advice as to whether I'm on...

Hi I stumbled across a site showing you how to make a spunding valve and I've bought the parts to have a go at making one .Has anyone else used one and would it be an advantage using one? I was going to try and fit it to my mangrove jack stainless fv bit wasn't sure if it would be suitable.

Hi, I'm looking for the best way to transfer from my mangrove jack's stainless fv to a corny keg. Is it possible to replace the tap on the bottom with a ball lock tap with barb fitting with a pipe conneced to a beer in ball lock. On the top of the fv could I fit something that would allow co2 to...

Hi all I've just started to dip my toe into brewing and have gone straight into all grain using a grain father setup! Made about 4 brews since starting using measured out kits and I have to say that they have turned out well. I'm just in the process of completing a brewing room in my dads shed...