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I like my music almost as much as I like beer and try and give my own beers a name with a music link, so imagine my disappointment when I found out that Loch Lomond Brewery had beaten me to 'Lost In Mosaic'...

And there was me thinking my higher-than-target OG was a testament to the super efficiency of my mashing and sparging regime! :laugh8: Actually, I do quite usually get an OG higher than target (here, it was twelve points). If anything, however, I over-pitch the yeast and both this one and the...

It should, given that you can usually reckon on 80-120g rasps/litre - so, 3kg busts it open in typical Brewdog style. Hop choices look good while having none in the boil packs everything into aroma. Should get a fair bit of biscuit off the wheat, but that takes you back to a wheat beer again...

Well, I was going to use fresh proper Scottish rasps but reading through a few other HBF threads, frozen ones (if you thaw and then refreeze, and then thaw, which helps to break down the internal walls) add a bit more flavour (and also with the sterilisation aspects). So I went for frozen...

Another thumbs up for Cranachan Killer. I've got a raspberry oatmeal stout on the go right now - hopped with Mosaic to take it to 28 IBUs. How are you planning to use your rasps? I was trying more for a stout in which you can detect a rasp flavour, so I simply steeped mine for just 30 mins...

Aha - thanks. We had some very warm days after I brewed it so it sounds like too warm a fermentation, then - the FG was very high when I bottled it (some 18 days after brewing) so it sounds as though the yeast (MJ M-42) just gave up. The day after brewday, I came back from being out all day to...

I think I just have, albeit by mistake. I made an oatmeal stout a couple of weeks ago and bottled it tonight. On drinking the contents of the FG sample jar, what I have is definitely liquid marmite. I'm not complaining, exactly: I love marmite. But here I would have preferred beer.

What Morton's doing here is steeping plenty of Amarillo, Centennial and Mosaic in the wort to add aroma - if you add hops to your wort at below 79C, it adds no bitterness to the beer, only aroma (the hops don't isomerise at these temperatures). Don't forget to stick your (sterilised) lid back on...

I'm also a 5L brewer currently. I use one of those turkey basters (sterilised, of course) which, handily, just fits into the neck of the dJ (being careful to squeeze the bulb at the end before the other end makes any contact with the liquid!). My sample jar needs about 180ml - so, testing for OG...

Sorry Drunkula: have only just got round to watching the clip - but noted! Notable also that the interviewer takes a bit of a step back, too :laugh8: He's got a point on the word association, to be fair (and at least he didn't go down the shortbread/pale biscuity malt route!). And he's right...

Cheers Mick, The weight of the packet was actually 2.93g - Brewer's Friend told me 4.3g would have produced the right number of cells. I'm not so worried (pre-brew I also did the quick maths based on an 11g packet size/20L!) as the pre-carbonation brew tastes alright (and I did brew pretty...

Have just bottled a small batch (4L+) Cali Common from an all-grain kit where M44 was supplied. The amount of yeast supplied was too small (< 3g) and the end product was slightly under-strength as a result of an understandably poor attenuation percentage, but my sample jar evidence is a good...

Ah, cheers for the response. Quite often the problem with small kits in my experience is that I end up having to liquor back to get the right amount in the fermenter as a result of losing plenty in the boil! Noted wrt astringency, though. I probably should do some water testing but, this being...

Have just been making some granola out of the spent grains from a stovetop (4.5L) California Common kit - all helps to make the spending on kits go that little bit farther! All went well (including with the kit, BTW) with the exception that, when thinking about how much sugar to put in, first I...

Thanks guys for the welcome and for the offers of help. The trub issue is definitely a worry. It had settled well in the bottles in the first two kits so - although I didn't then know about cold crashing - I must have done something right (with the black IPA, I'm definitely following the 2+2+2...

Hi Chippy_Tea: Do add me in: I'm at HS8 5RF.

I'm Calvin; and I'm a home brewer currently living on South Uist. Hmm: username does what it says on the tin. I'm very new to brewing and have used a couple of kits so far - all-grain stovetop ones (4.5 ltr); I have absolutely no experience with malt extract or other kits and I set out on the...