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Yes please! - Russian Imperial Stout looks interesting.

If you are close enough to Doncaster to collect - this guy is the cheapest - Beer Bottles (x 40) If you need to get them shipped then JazJar.

You'll be fine - no harm in giving it a stir (try not to aerate) and moving the bag around a bit to avoid scorching. Next time you could use a bit more strike water and just reduce your sparge accordingly.

Thank you, this is very helpful.

Very good point - thank you - I'm not so fussed about the colour more wanting to add a bit of depth of flavour - would Munich not err towards a more biscuit flavour rather than the hint of caramel flavour I'm looking for? I used Brewers Friend (Yeast Pitch Rate and Starter Calculator -...

+1 for mashing and boiling in the Electrim as for the sparge - you can keep it really simple and just use a litre jug to pour water over the grain bed (or your grain bag) in an even fashion. Makes it easy to keep track of how many litres you have used and you can regulate evenness of coverage...

Thanks for the comments - what is it that you are thinking re the crystal? - in addition to the body and head contribution I was hoping to get a touch of the caramel from it. Is it the colour that you are thinking of? I also have loads of crystal in stock, but no carapils 🙂 I am not trying...

That's the plan @lupinehorror ! - the stuff they make now is not the stuff they made for Churchill!

Comments on recipe and advice on yeast stater please. Never brewed a lager and so far have only ever used dry yeast. As usual I'm diving in the deep end and want my first lager to be a high gravity beer with a distinct (but balanced) malty flavour including a hint of caramel - possible a bit...

Has anyone any experience of making an integrated undercounter fridge into a kegerator? I would like to do this as it gives me the neatest look but am concerned about internal space. Integrated undercounter fridges have the compressor under the floor as they have provision for a plinth to be...

When building a recipe is there a minimum % for any given grain? e.g. no point ever having less than say 5% of the bill as it will have no effect. I guess the answer is that it depends what you are trying to achieve - my specific situation is I want to add some wheat to a recipe to help with...

@matt76 - I am doing your AG#55 Podium IPA recipe on Sat and had just two questions: 1. The mash guidelines say amount is 16L but when you print it, the water guidelines say total mash water needed is 20L. When I am heating my water up to the required 65 degrees - how much do I need? 2. I'm...

Thanks @Mavroz - that is helpful - I have a boiler that has elements in it (e.g. not on a gas burner/stove top) if I did what you suggest and used a bag for my malt - could I then just keep in the same vessel for my boil? I can't see any reason why not.

I've done a bit of experimentation and I think the simple answer here is - you can't get the fridge up to 65 degrees - at least not mine! Thinking about it the insulation properties of a fridge in the UK are designed to cope with a temperature difference of may be a max of 30 degrees (outside...

Has anyone ever used a fermentation fridge to maintain their mash temperature? Instead of using a converted cool box etc I'm thinking of just using a regular bottling pail (30 L) and popping in the brew fridge with the temp set to 65. Any obvious reasons why this wouldn't work?

Thanks @Galena - good to know

Thanks @matt76 - all extremely helpful. Order placed with Crossmyloof - thank you! Will speak to my local shop re the Malt - unless you have any cost effective recommendations online? Just one question now I think and largely out of curiosity - why do you just do a 30min boil?

This is excellent - thank you! I have a 32L home made boiler, 2x 30L pails for FV and bottling and 2x 15L pails for smaller batches like this one. All the usual thermometers, hydrometer, trial jar etc plus a fermentation fridge (also home made). I'll grab a grain bag to keep things tidy. I...

thanks @matt76 - very helpful The more specific the better so far as I'm concerned - still got my stabilisers on! Would you be able to tell me how much of each of the hops to add and what timings you recommend for the additions? Also what yeast to use - HB Online have this one that looks...

Thanks terrym - that is helpful - I'll head over there and have a look. I'll probably be back with more questions once I've got myself totally confused! 🙂