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So as the Leffe Radieuse is likely to be taking up space for a few months, I wondered what I might be able to brew that would be quick, easy, light, refreshing for the summer. Thoughts brought me to a hefeweizen, but sadly, I have no malted wheat in stock. What about a user-upper of some...

Yes. Sorry. The title reads like a click bait web site saying 'You won't believe what happened next' or 'This is some D List celebrity, this is what they look like now'. Anyway, I digress. Yesterday I brewed an Old Thumper clone using Maris Otter as the base malt..... except I found this...

I went on a recent Brewery tour and was surprised to hear that they rack from the fermenter into barrels after about 72 hours. They then (if I remember correctly) cool condition for a couple of weeks. This got me thinking that I could do the same with a corny keg and let it finish fermentation...

I was going to do a Leffe Brun . . . . however, I've done one of those and @Agentgonzo keeps banging on about this Radieuse thing ;) (which does sound everso lovely) so I thought I'd see what I had in stock, and bless my soul, I think I have just about what I need with some artistic...

I've search the titles but I cannot find any hits.... Bought an ITC-1000 a couple of years ago and hadn't had the need to fit it. Eventually fitted it 2021 to keep the serving kegerator at 10c-ish. I only have the fridge powered, not a heater. It's been working fine since then until now. No...

I happened upon this on my internet travels today: The National Brewing Library at Oxford Brookes Direct link to the embedded video NBL flyer Another video - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Hello all. I know there is a lot of experience of pumps on here so I'm looking for your advice please. I have a couple of water butts. I would like to attach a pump for two scenarios: - Watering the garden, which I think that is the easy bit. - Feeding a pressure washer (Bosch Aquatak 100) I...

Hello everybody peeps. I've seen posts like this, but never experienced it myself. Brew is a user upper stout (which I have neglected to post details of, and for that I apologise) I will update my brewday thread at some point. Seven days into fermentation, I roasted 160g cacao nibs at 120c...

I have a BZ 3.1.1 I've been using it without issue for just under 2 years. I will very often set the preset to preheat the water with a time offset of, say, 10 hours, so I set it all up the night before and by the time I get up, the strike water is up to temp. Last night, I came to do the...

I haven't brewed for a while and I find myself in a position I can brew this weekend, but I only have what I have in stock. Looking to make some sort of stout - it doesn't really matter what sort, as long as it isn't the American / high bitterness ones. The malts are pretty much what I have in...

I'm at a wedding in a converted barn. There are dried hops being used as decorations. So clearly something to do with the brewing process back in the day. I also note these unusual roofs/rooves. Given the horizontal flap, I guessed that the top would rotate and the vertical bit would...

Hey all. I have some CML Hog Norsk top crop. It was cropped Dec 2021. When I did the original brew it was a really healthy ferment, producing loads of yeast. Yesterday I thought I'd make a 1200ml starter with 3-4 (or 5 I didn't count) good heaped teaspoons full of the harvested yeast to kick...

Suggestion - For those that play; what do you think? For those that have already solved a given Wordle, sometimes it's interesting to see what guesses people have made. I also think you can embed a spoiler code, which I'm about to try out here: This is standard spoiler code: Click the...

Hey I've built 2.2L starter from about 20ml of overbuild from 3 months ago. Yeast is 37/40 It's been on the stir plate for about 40 hours and it's has a bit of an eggy smell. I know this can happen during regular fermentation, but is this a concern when making a starter? I'm letting it...

Would appreciate your thoughts on this please. Majority being dark munich, which I read will be able to convert, but there is a reasonable amount of base pils in there too. May or may not throw in the torrified wheat and / or some aromatic. No basis in knowledge, just trying to use stuff up...

This might not work, but thought it might be worth discussion. I recently took ownership of the above publication and, like many, have found that yeasts are not specified for the recipes. I thought it might be worth having a single resource where we can add the yeasts in to the table and over...

I'm reading some good stuff about this yeast, and I'm planning to use it in a stout I've just brewed A couple of questions for y'all. It looks like it finishes comparatively quick: 1. Do you still have to let it 'clear up' for the requisite two weeks or can you shorten that period by the...

I'm very tempted by the BKT Kegland SS fermenter deal. Very sexy. I have a few questions/ issues which I'd like you collective opinions on. 1. I already have two (undercounter) fridges, neither of which will take the 50+cm height of the SS FV. Have any of you managed to get the 50+cm...

I saw this on the shelf and thought it was unusual to market your wares thusly.... However it seems that it should be like this....

For one of my most recent brews I over built the yeast (Fermentis Saflager W-34/70) I used a calculator to over build by about 150bn cells. I then swished it about and decanted to a few plastic vials. It's been settled for a few weeks now. Here are two photos exactly a month apart. These...