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Hi all I'm planning to knock up a peanut-butter stout at some point next week, but my recipe design is feeling a bit 'throw it all in', so advice/observations welcome. Here's how it's looking so far... http://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/nimbus-1 ...I want to use the stock I currently have in my...

Sometimes, its just the right thing to do to take a sunny Friday off to brew a beer. The beer in question is an American IPA, packed full of Cascade, Centennial and Columbus (Beertoad Recipe Here) Crushed the grain at midday, whilst the mash water came to temperature... Mashed at 67.5 to 68...

Hi all, I've actually pottered around these forums before, but I've been AWOL for a while, and now I've returned. I never actually posted one of these threads, so I will now! So hello! I've been brewing for a couple of years, currently using a 30l HERMS systems concocted from Bergland shiny...

So...I'm brewing in my garage and I've noticed that my sewer runs literally next to it. And this has me wondering, can I stick a floor drain in.? Has anyone got any experience of doing this DIY-style (I'm relatively handy), or should I get a Man in to do it (and if so, what would be a reasonable...

Hi all, Does anyone based around stockport want a free fridge? It just about fits a 25l bucket in it (literally only just), and its pretty ghetto, but its going to the rag and bone man next week if not. Free to anyone who fancies picking it up. M

Hi all, I have rashly bought this... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170991235494? ... 1439.l2649 To stick between my mash tun and pump during recirculation. I then thought about it, and I've got a stainless steel one on order from foreign places. I was just wondering, though, about the...

Inspired by the great christmas Secret Santa swap, I'm putting together a website which will organise exchange and feedback on brews. The basic process is ... 1. Brew a beer and fill one PET bottle 2. Log your share on the site 3. The site matches you with someone else, and sends you postage...

Note: This is a work in progress. I will be updating the thread over the next couple of weeks. The REX-C100 is the cheapest and most available PIDs on eBay; often listed by various sellers in China. Its bargain-basement nature makes it alluring. Unfortunately, it's also a bit of a bag of sh*te...

Hi all, I've bodged me together a heat exchanger, and got an STC 1000 and this weekend I'll be trying it for the first time in a brew. I'm trying to decide where to put the temperature probe for this one, though, and was wondering if anyone could offer advice? Eventually, I'll plumb the probe...

Hi all, I'm approaching the point at which my brewshed will be uninvitingly cold for a month or so - so I'm planning to have a go at a lager (I've got decent temperature control). Its not really my 'style' by impulse, but I'd like to give it a try - can anyone recommend me a recipe? I'd maybe...

Hi all, I'd like to give a simcoe-y amarillo-y brew a go, and am aware that these are pretty scarce outside of the yearly new season delivery. Out of interest, when in the year is this? M.

Heyup, So I've brewed an American style pale, dry hopped with cascade. Initially, it wasn't far from Sierra Nevada, but as its aged, it's lost it's aroma. It still tastes good, in fact it's mellowed quite pleasantly and may even be better. But given the original intent was something super...

I'm brewing this one on Saturday, with the intent that this won't happen. Any feedback happily received... Stratus Style: Special/Best/Premium Bitter OG: 1.048 Type: All Grain FG: 1.014 Rating: 0.0 ABV: 4.45 % Calories: 158 IBU's: 26.19 Efficiency: 75 % Boil Size: 26.46 L Color: 16.0...

So I've got this pale ale recipe that I've been trying to perfect for four brewdays. I've had a bad recipe version, an infected version and a version which fermented at too high a temperature with yukky alcoholy flavours. This time, I was going to crack it. I built myself a fermentation fridge...

Hi all, For my next brew (a bitter), the water calculator on this forum is recommending a Calcium Chloride addition. The other additives I've been fairly confident with, but this one is making me feel a little inexpert (I'm noting the dihydrate reference). Is this the stuff I'm after...

Ok, so I've got a horrible, horrible garage. Really, it's horrible. You can just about see it in the background here... Not sure who that good looking fella is stood in front of it. Here's some more of its horrors... Its sat there for five years, waiting to be demolished. I have finally...

Hi all, I've built myself an arduino-controlled fermentation chamber (the usual business of an old fridge, tube heater and PID) - and love it. In the near future, though, I'm renovating a broken-down garage as a brew shed. One corner will have a platform to a roof-terrace type thing for the...

Ok, here's a go at an American IPA - any advice welcome... Style: American IPA OG: 1.061 Type: FG: 1.015 Rating: 0.0 ABV: 6.03 % Calories: 199 IBU's: 54.04 Efficiency: 80 % Boil Size: 26.46 L Color:    8.3 SRM   Batch Size: 23.00 L Preboil OG: 1.057 Boil Time: 60...

Okie dokey, so I bought my very exciting beer gun, and the accessory kit, but I need a Y-connector to split the co2 out to both the keg and the gun. Please can someone point me in the direction of a link to the thing I need to buy?

Hi all, I've put together a first draft of a HERMS system I intend to build in my loft (where space is precious). I'd appreciate any observations anyone could offer on it? The schematic, and a walk through of its process, is posted here...