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Saw this posted on Reddit, thought it might be of interest here. https://omegayeast.com/yeast/kveiks/dried-lutra-kveik I don’t often use liquid yeast, although I did give this one a go (and then failed to properly harvest it for reuse). If the pricing is right I can see me keeping some of this...

Bit of a long shot, but does anybody have experience of using solenoid valves in their brewing setup? I'm currently planning on building an autosparge system using a float switch to detect the water level in the mash tun and a solenoid valve to interrupt the water flow from the HLT when the...

Having a bit of a tidy up and figured these may be useful to others on here. Counterflow Chiller. Home made, 8mm copper internal pipe, 6.6m long, with camlock fittings for wort and hozelock fittings for the water. Works fine, but I've upgraded to a plate chiller so this is gathering dust. £15...

I mashed a Berliner Weisse on Tuesday for kettle souring - pasteurised it at 82°C for a bit then chilled it and dropped it into an old fermenter so it would fit in my temperature controlled brew fridge at 35°C to incubate. I used a carton of Fage Total 0% for the lactobacillus source, which...

Not my usual style (I prefer pales and IPAs), but my neighbour very enthusiastically assisted on my last brew day and he's interested in making a batch of McEwans 80 shilling. I've tried Google, and the results that are coming up seem to include peated malt, which doesn't seem to agree with the...

50 quid each sounds reasonable. While I was tempted I’ve got all I need so sharing here in case anyone else is interested...

Today's brew has been a kettle soured Berliner Weisse, but having pitched the starter culture and set my controller to 35 degrees the actual temperature has massively overshot. It looks like it's peaked somewhere in the high 50s, just about on the edge of survivability for the lactobacillus from...

In an effort to use less plastic we've just ordered a Sodastream, primarily for carbonated water which makes up a good chunk of our recycling currently. The fact I can refill the expensive little CO2 bottle from my cheap full size CO2 bottle was a big factor too of course... It's kinda got my...

Not my first brew day (by my reckoning this is AG#38), but a brew day of firsts: First brew on my new stainless kettle First brew using a pump (and therefore first using my prototype fly sparging and whirlpool arms) First brew where I'm adjusting my water chemistry rather than using pure...

In preparation for the Christmas brew which Hopsteep is organising, I attempted to make "No 3 Invert Sugar" yesterday, and I'm not entirely sure if that's what I've ended up with. As per the instructions in the recipe (scaled to 1/2 quantity), I boiled 1 pint of water, dissolved in 1lb sugar...

I'm planning on upgrading my mango chutney barrel kettle to stainless, and as part of that I'm looking at alternative elements to the £5 Tesco kettle ones I've relied on so far. This AliExpress listing is intriguing me, for a few reasons. Firstly it looks like it's actually 3 separate...

This cropped up in my YouTube feed the other day, thought people here might be interested It's over an hour, but seems pretty interesting so far.

I'm considering getting out of my comfort zone a little and attempting to brew an apricot beer - something along the lines of Sam Smith's Organic Apricot but a little less sweet, ideally. There's a few things I'm unsure about, so was hoping someone might be able to offer some advice. Because I...

Hi everyone, Paul here, based in Edinburgh. I definitely used to be a member of this forum maybe 4 or 5 years ago - the site seems to have had a revamp since then and I guess my old account got lost. Either that or i got my username/email guesses wrong... My return to brewing was (I assume...