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I suspect I may have already discovered the most inappropriate footwear for brewing activities… court shoes, suede in particular… they will never recover 🙈. This evening comes a close second after spilling a litre or so of lager from a pumped hose onto white Converse shoes. Ok ok I know 🤦‍♀️. At...

So is anyone else giving in to the on trend cinema visiting this week? 🎞️ 👡💄💣🤯 .... I have persuaded my eldest daughter to come along to see Barbie with me early on Wednesday, we then have a 10 minute wee break (literally and figuratively), before my youngest daughter is joining us for...

Suggestions please 😁. With my son at home my beer is being depleted faster than I can condition it at the moment. Just over a week ago I put about 50 litres of lager on and I’m doing an accelerated lager ferment (really cool first 8 days then v slow rise to ambient over a few days) but it will...

I’m a bit stuck (again) In a moment of excess a few months ago I purchased a brewing pump, with cam locks and half inch hose. Lots of things I’d like to use it for but I’d like to use it for closed transfer to kegs as well. The problem is how to go from silicone 1/2” hose to a ball lock...

While hunting for a way to order malt directly from the local Crisp Maltings just up the road, 'I found this and thought of you' , it's a set of homebrew recipes scaled from their commercial recipes in their malting handbook - which is also a really useful document. I quite like the look of the...

A bit of a question for those with cylinders of CO2: if you turn off your gas at the cylinder, do your primary and secondary pressure gauges drop at all over time? So after clearing up from the mess of the roof (long story) I've finished plumbing in the brew space for CO2 supplies in several...

Sadly not a sci fi movie about a brewery in outer space, nope this is a bit of an explanation, and a bit of an apology for why I've not been around the forum or sent off beers as planned. I was mid rebuild of my CO2 piping supply when the roofing contractors came to replace our 45 year old...

Sorry if this has been asked before. From the recent UK homebrew competition, I noted that various national brewing clubs were listed to register under. This forum wasn't one of them, so a few questions: What are the merits of being part of a registered homebrew club? Would it be possible to...

Calling all you expert engineering types 😀. I've been wanting to move to a wall mounted regulator for a while now, partly to do with a planned project to do with the canner, but that's for another thread sometime. I've picked up a new compound regulator off ebay as below for a pretty good...

I can't find Wyeast 1968 anywhere, which is annoying as I'd like to make a 2022 batch of my Winter Wassail and this is the yeast I've used the last couple of times. I'm happy to vary the hops and malts, but the yeast character this gives is pure hobnob biscuits, which I'm keen not to lose. There...

Apologies to start a thread on a very specific question about line coolers. Can these be use to cool gasses as well as liquids? The ask relates to canning and minimising oxygen exposure, if I could cool CO2 significantly below ambient then this colder gas won't mix the same way with air, can be...

Ok I thought this was worth sharing. Looks like we were first with the brewing and it’s just taken a few thousand years for you lads to catch up 😜...

This isn't a blog, podcast or youtube but seems the best category to put this in - well ok I guess it might count as a blog 🤔.I'm about to start an MSc in Brewing and Distilling with HW, which I'm taking over 4 years so this will be v slow, I'm not going to push to get this done quickly. I...

Following my recent trip to St Austell brewery and having watched several videos about commercial breweries, I'm struck by the difference in speed of completing fermentation. Typically I and several others here will recommend 2 weeks for most beers, though longer for lagers. Commercial brewers...

My Klarstein system is genuinely lovely but he lacks a bit of oomph when it comes to a rolling boil with larger volumes. This is despite the 3.3KW power. So I decided I wanted to insulate it similar to the jacket in the Brewzilla. I purchased a 2m roll of 8mm thick neoprene, any thicker would...

I'm planning another split batch for my sour beers. Last time I made a clementine and passionfruit gose, and a rasberry passionfruit sour. This time I'd like to do something more along the lines of a British summer, think Pimms, Ribena, elderflower cordial and fruit tarts. The two flavour...

There's something rather satisfying about a yeast starter, the flask quietly whirring away in the corner of my home office turning from a dark brown, to foamy cloudy amber then lastly light gold with settled yeast. This one is the Omega OYL-107 for another batch of the red festbier which I'm...

A question for all as I'm trying to plan my brewspace a bit better. At present my Klarstein sits on a trolley which works well for the short cable to reach the socket but isn't ideal as it is quite high and I need a step stool to stir or do much with the wort. I've also set up a pulley above it...

Rather than post on my brewday thread, I thought it might be useful/interesting/helpful to have a separate thread to post my experiences with the new big beastie of an all in one system that has now arrived. I am also going to need to set up my own Brewfather equipment profile for this since I...

So I was out for a meal out with a great friend at Stereo Glasgow a couple of weeks ago - rather fun student vibe there which helps me not feel quite so old Stereo - Home They do some interesting beers which I've not tried anywhere else before, so much to my friend's amusement, I photographed...