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Evening All, Not done a brew day account for a while so thought I’d get the camera out as well as the mash tun. Just a bit of background to this one. About a year ago I bought a couple of hop rhizomes which my brother duly planted at the back of his place in Nottingham. We weren’t...

Evening All, I’ve been thinking of having a go at SNPA type brew for a while and I’m in the process of listing the ingredients needed. The base malt is simply described as ‘larger’ malt in the recipes I’ve come across. Does anyone have an opinion on the brand of larger malt to buy ...

Evening All, Come across an interesting site this evening - angel home brew who have a nice selection of bits n bobs ( liking the look of the camlock fittings.... ) But...... I really like the simple hop filter; stainless braid with a capped end and a 1/2 inch BSP end. I've got the braid but...

Evening All, Just chilling a Galaxy SMASH at the mo and added a nice handful when the boil was turned off. What's the opinion ? Start to chill immeadiately or let them sit in the hot wort for a while ? I've done what I consider to be a 'steep' taking the temp down to around 80 degrees then...

Evening All, Having taken on board all the suggestions for fixing my stir plate problems ( triangular stir bar and speed control :thumb: ) I just wondered how long experienced brewers let their stir-bars spin around for ? I kicked off a starter late on Wednesday eve planning on a couple of...

Afternoon All, Your thoughts on this one please. After your prescribed mash time do you : Add hot sparge liquor to the mash tun, mix it up, and let it settle down again before starting the gentle sparge. Or Simply start your sparge by gently adding liquor to the grain bed. I’ve read two...

Afternoon All, My most recent AG batch is safely tucked up in keg and bottle and, for the first time, I collected the yeast slurry which can hopefully be reused. I tried the rinsing techniques posted all over the internet but, to be honest, didn’t really see any discernable separation...

Evening All, My first fridge fermentation is over and I have to say that this is already the best AG I've made; almost drinkable now ! Brew has been in the fermentor 10 days, hydrometer stuck at 1.010 for about 4 days, left it to clean up a bit. Now, as I have a fridge I'm considering cooling...

Evening All, Whilst I fully appreciate that you can't control a brew fridge (compressor) for the cooling with a PID does it seem feasible to run the heating only element with a PID ? I've just set my fridge up for the first time this weekend and it has a 60w heater installed. The heater is...

Morning All, Well - it's been a while; a very busy summer got in the way of brewing but here we go. AG #1 was Timothy Taylor Landlord which turned out 'ok' for a first attempt I thought but I wasn't totally happy (mainly due to the yeast I think - more to follow) So, Mk 2 here we go. HLT...

Evening All, Long time no post for me. To be honest, long time no brew. After putting my shiny kit together earlier this year I’ve had a busy summer and postponed brewing activities. This weekend though it will happen…. Or so I thought…… No brews attempted over the summer but I have...

Evening All, After a far too long work induced break AG3 is calling and I’m especially liking Castle Rock Harvest Pale at the moment. Found a few recipes on the site involving Pilot, Galena, and Cascade hops. The newly decorated bottle I’ve just picked up in Tesco, however, quotes ...

Afternoon All, Apologies for interrupting your brew days but I have a query regarding my AG2. 18 days fermentation at 19 degrees resulted in FG 1.009 with just the odd pin-prick bubble rising. Decided to raise the temp to 20 degrees encouraging the yeast to clean up. As an experiment, I...

Afternoon All, Is it permissible to ‘liquor back’ once fermentation has completed ? AG 2 has finished fermenting and is coming in a lot stronger than I expected. I knew the OG was over what I wanted when the yeast was pitched but I didn’t expect it to ferment out as low as it has. OG...

Afternoon All, AG 2 is still in the fermenter but is finally slowing down. FG now 1.009 OG was 1.055 This yeast is advertised with an attenuation of 68% - 72% but I make my figure more like 10% + higher. This is exactly the same as AG1 but I had thought that this had fermented low because...

Evening All, I’ve been reading Wheeler’s BYOBRA and have a question regarding priming. Wheeler quotes; “it should not be necessary to prime {and fine} bottled beers” Wheeler recommends transferring the fermented product to ‘cask’, leaving for several weeks and then bottling at this...

Well….. once again temperatures plummet as we are covered with yet another blanket of snow. But - what to brew on such a day, what would be most appropriate……….. Of course. Hopback Summer Lightening ! Just a quick tour of my second decent into the dark side which, as predicted by...

Evening All, First off, thanks for everyone’s input on this; as always, much appreciated. :thumb: Finally put this together at the weekend; it took a while but, to honest, once I had all the bits& bobs in front of me it was pretty straightforward. By far the hardest task was cutting...

Evening All, Apologies - another question I'm afraid. I would like to install a small PC case fan as part of my PID build to keep the SSR nice and cool, etc. Most of the ones available ( at the size I’m looking at ) are 12v which means I also need a 12v DC power supply in the box of tricks...

Evening All, I'm in the middle of assembling my PID build and would like to make the PT100 sensor 'detachable’ so that its not hard-wired into the PID control unit. The obvious way to do this would be to have some kind of jackplug or DIN socket in the wall of the project box holding all the...