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Hey fellas, I've got a 5/16 beer line which hasn't got a clamp on the barb of the disconnect (i have no idea why that's the case because I set it up !). Anyhow hooked a brew up to it yesterday and needless to say a couple of hours later there's tell tale beer spillage in the bottom of the...

Hey Fellas, once my 19l Corny keg is empty I rinse it out with bleach solution then also run some bleach solution through the beer line, a relatively weak solution in truth. when i come to add a beer line to a keg of new beer i make up some sanitising solution in a spare keg pressure it up and...

Hey fellas I live in Hertfordshire where we have really scummy hard water. I measured it from the tap using a Salifert CA Profi Test and recorded a value of 140. This surprised me because when I looked up the recommended value for Calcium on a Murphy & Son Technical information sheet for a...

Hey fellas, hope you can help out quick, just doing a brew and my mash PH was 5.9 so i added an extra 5ml of AMS and nits it's dropped to 4.6 !! Question is do I / should i try to raise it back to target range of betwwen 5.2 - 5.6 or is it ok and If I should what can i use to do it. It's a...

Hey fellas, I've got an AEB 19 l Corny which i always struggle to get an airtight seal with, takes me 3 of 4 goes normally before i feel confident it's sealed by spraying water around the seal. Whats the general consensus on a vaseline smear around the rubber - I have bought a new rubber seal...

Hi fellas, I've tried cold crashing in a keg for 24 hours then force carbing for 20 mins at 20PSI - disaster - ended up pouring pints of foam !. Then did one subsequently for 10 mins at 30 psi - again disaster ! Any guidance on what your method is would be very gratefully received, - I do the...

Hi folks it occurred to me the other day when I was cleaning up that there was loads of wort in my hop bags that I'd added as the boil progressed, do folks generally squeeze the wort out and into the FV or just leave them be ?

Greetings Brewers - I recently did a 23 l full mash of a Jon Finch House Pale using 3.5kg of MO Pale malt and 500g of Caramel malt. The SG of the pre boil of 19l (i got my volumes wrong tbf !) was disappointingly low at 1032 so I added some DME to get more fermentables in. I use a Robobrew...

Hey fellas, I'm fairly new to the all grain world and so still finding my way a bit. I just brewed up a batch of House Pale using the Jon Finch recipe on Friday the 27th March. The grain yield was poor leaving a wort of 1032, so I added approx 350g of DME which i happened to have in the...

Hey fellas, I've brewed several all grain brews and my beer always tastes way too bitter, irrespective of what recipe I attempt. I think I've finally worked out that's it's not bitterness but astringency due to the PH of my water which i measured yesterday at 6.2. The whole water treatment...

Just started on a very pleasurable retirement hobby of all grain brewing - sure beats the 9 to 5 rat race and could do with a bit of advice from the more experienced who hang out here ! I have a robobrew rig which does all the various steps of mash, sparge, boil etc. So instead of doing a mash...