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Could use a bit of advice. First go at kegging here - all the parts are brand new - including the kegs and a good quality regulator (I think) - 3/16 pipe at about a 9' length. So had the keg at 30psi for a few days then in the fridge at 15 psi for over a week now and using a picnic tap until I...

Just started kegging and received my first CO2 bottle - a 3.15 kg size. On connecting it it is reading 48bar and is in the light red section of the regulator gauge. Wondering if I have been given a low filled bottle or is it normal to read like this. Wanting to know when to re-order, assumed...

Just starting to keg my beers now and looking with interest at adding gelatin to clear the beer - mostly IPA's and amber ales but will be brewing lagers soon so would like them to be nice and clear. Any help on this process would be great - I guess it's not too difficult but any advise so as...

Been using the Brew monk for a few brews now but the mash seems very thick. A comment I posted here asked to check the dead space below the grain basket - I have measured that at 8 ltrs - which seems a lot. So am I right in assuming that if the recipe calls for say 13 Ltrs of strike water I...

The last couple of A/G beers have been disappointing, they have been weak, low FG and low carbonation. I am brewing all grain kits so I am assuming the ingredient quantities are correct and I am keeping very close to the temps and timings. My feeling is that I am going to the boil before...

I am using a Brew Monk 30 all in one and need a bit of info on strike water quantity. The recipe says 15 ltr of strike water - 3 x water to grain? - anyway the last couple of brews using this quantity has given a very thick mash - I even added some water last time as it was very difficult to...

So, I brewed an all grain Amber Ale and I decided to bottle this one in my Coopers PET bottles as I thought it may not turn out too good as I struggled a bit with the brew temp - I also put some in glass (brown) bottles too. Anyway some weeks later the beer tastes great, a nice Amber ale with a...

Hi, looking for a bit of info on my all grain brews. This is the 3rd all grain kit I have brewed and I seem so be getting a low SG before ferment - I am following the instructions carefully but this last brew showed 1050 at the end of the boil (I let the sample cool) but later showed 1043...

I brewed an Amber ale but the fermentation seemed to finish very quickly - 3 days - and the FG was a bit high. So I added more yeast which did nothing. I left it in the fermenter for about two and a half weeks then batch primed using one of the calculators - if anything I went a bit higher with...

Ok hi all, I am just starting to go the kegging route and was wondering if this plan is going to be OK. I want to do a brew, then keg it, pressurising to purge oxygen but then leaving it till I need it then setting the right pressure for carbonating and serving. I want to get a couple of...

As I am still very new to A/G brewing I could use a bit of advice. I brewed an A/G Amber Ale last week and followed the recipe exactly. I hit the correct mash temp etc and the brew seemed to go well. The initial gravity was a bit lower than the recipe at 1040 instead of 1042. So into the temp...

Quick question re bulk priming as my beers seem to vary so much in carbonation. I am using priming calculators to work out my priming rate and they are asking for the beer temp. As I have cold crashed the beer should I enter the current cold crashed temp (5c) or the temp it fermented at (18c)...

So going for it after many weeks of deliberating! How many of you felt like this?? One good thing is the beer I will drink whilst stressing out! Thank you to all that have helped, advised and encouraged. Wish me luck Dave

Hi, Having read Strange Steve's guide to water treatment I bought the kits he suggested - the kit for KH/Alk worked fine but his instructions showed the Ca kit with 3 bottles - mine only has 2 and I understand that's how they are now. So anyone worked out how to do this test with the new kit...

So the all grain journey is about to start and at the moment I am going to no chill in a cube until later when I hope to arrange something else. The question is if I am going to do a brew day my plan is to actually create 2 brews and store them both in cubes then ferment one after the other thus...

Hi all, I am about to start my all grain journey and I want to deal with my water! I have read quite a lot about the subject but as I am at the start I want to do something simple to improve my water until I can progress. My kit brews were OK but I think they had what I would call an...

Hi All, with the help of some very kind members here I am about to start on my all grain journey with an all in one. Thing is I find I have a couple of Munton's Pilsner kits which are a year over use by - 5/22. They have been kept in a cool dark place and being ever so slightly tight I...

So, I have been brewing from kits for a long while and some have been OK but now going off the "twang" so I am looking into BIAB as an option. What I wanted to know from those that have done this is, is there that a big difference going all grain - I assume so but would be interested in...

I am looking to brew a Coopers IPA and I want to add toasted coconut - any thoughts on when I should add it and how much? Was thinking of around 200gm at the same time as dry hopping but would adding at the start of fermentation be better. Thanks all

I am mainly brewing kits which turn out quite nice and I have been dry hopping after fermentation has finished a few days before bottling. This has been ok but I would like to try a different way of hopping the kits. I was thinking of making a hop tea and adding it the start of fermentation so...