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Pubs in England and Wales will be able to continue selling takeaway drinks after the government decided to keep Covid licensing rules. They were allowed to serve customers through hatches when they were forced to close under pandemic laws in 2020. The rules were due to expire on 30 September...

I have decided I want one to fill a few bottles direct from keg, the Boel itap looks great but not available now it seems and as they appear to be Russian made then that's a good explanantion why. I have looked at the Nukatap and the Kegland version and also the Tapcooler, I think for now at...

I have just bought a plate chiller from Brewbuilder, the chiller came with no labels for wort or water lines in/out. I know that it's water one side and wort the other flowing on opposite directions but is there any technical reason which side should be water and which wort. I emailed them with...

I am considering buying a spare probe but not easy to get in the UK afaik. Anyone know if it's the same probe as the ITC 308? It certainly looks the same but I can't find any info. 16-S Probe 308 Probe

I made a starter as is my normal practice and sufficient to overbuild by 150Bn cells. This was using WLP002 which is a very flocculent yeast. As normal I placed on the stirrer plate, fermentation started as normal. At 18 hours I turned off the plate at high krausen. At 48 hours I planned to...

Maths are not my strong point and I could do with some help. I want to make a 33% solution of Calcium Chloride from my flakes. The flakes have a 77% purity. Therefore to make 100mls of 33% solution, first I need the weight required which I have as: 33/.77 = 43g So I dissolve 43g Calcium...

In this recent Video podcast, Martin Brungard suggests that measuring and more importantly checking for target pH stability early in the mash (5, 10, 15 mins) is not correct as it does not stabilise until around 45 mins. I accept that the graph he shows of this is correct but would have thought...

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Has TT's Landlord changed at all in recent years, I am looking for a good clone recipe but they all seem so far what is listed on TT's own website. Some don't use Fuggles, and more importantly perhaps TT lists the beer as an IBU of 45 whereas most clones seem to be much lower, even Graham...

I am about to finalise my 56 litre mash kettle after buying all the parts well over a year ago. Anyway, I am wondering what thoughts are on the best place for the thermostat for the controller? I will be using a re-circulation pump so considering putting it in 'T' piece in the line either just...

So I am having a bit of brain block and I have been away from brewing for awhile. A typical old style pack of WLP yeast had 100Bn cells when new I believe, so how many Bn cells does the next generation have? The packaging states it gives a pitch rate of 7.5M cells per ml, but I assume this is...

Hi, I have not been around for a while as not been brewing, but now have my enthusiasm for some summer brews. I have been given a load of home grown hops, no idea what they are but the friend that grew them thinks they are possibly Centennial or another American citrus style hop. Of course I...

I am in the process of building an electric BIAB system in a 56 litre pot. I will be using a malt basket, a 2.5kw heater element and will re-circulate the mash with an electric pump, there will be a bi metal strip thermometer a little above the drain tap. I will be controlling the temperature...

I was thinking of making a lager, in the Pilsner style but can't be bothered with ordering Pilsner malt right now, how do you think it would taste brewed with MO and using a Pilsner yeast and otherwise brewed with full Diacetyl rest and lagering? Just a bit stronger/biscuity in flavour? Maybe...

At 0350 this morning we lost power after a storm battered night, the house has been freezing and we were all but snowed in. Managed to get to Bakewell for breakfast in a cafe and a bit of shopping for SWMBO in Hathersage. Return back home and power still out, I begin to worry about my brew with...

When at a whisky tasting night I believe it is recommended to begin with drinks distilled in the south east and work your way anticlockwise to the south west, I assume this is so that the strong peaty whiskies of the west coast don't overpower the east coast whiskies. So I was wondering if when...

I never manage to hit my mash pH by a long way and I really have no idea why. As an example my last 2 brews Brew 1 was a Blonde Ale Target pH was 5.09, very low because I have been lowering it to see how much closer I get to a desired 5.2 to 5.4. Mash pH was actually 5.62 taken at 15 mins into...

I have almost all the ingredients to have a go at Greg Hughes ESB recipe as a good way of using the Ringwood yeast I have just revitalised. The only thing is I don't have the chocolate malt and wondered if I would notice much difference if I substituted with Black malt? I have just noticed that...

Just spent an hour looking at whats on TV, I seem to have used up all the decent dramas so what now? Nothing on Terrestrial apart from some remake of predator starting at 9pm which will probably be awful. BBC iPlayer, I have watched everything that appeals Amazon Prime, I got fed up with...

Trying to formulate a recipe that calls on the addition of Maltose. I have the maltose but wondering how to add it to Brewfather Fermentables? Given that maltose is only 80% fermentable sugars I am wondering how to calculate predicted SG and Yield? Image shown is for Golden Syrup