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I’m currently fermenting my NEIPA style beer, I dry hopped on day two as the brew was going off like a rocket. The dry hop was 240g and is fermenting at 5psi. My problem is the hops are floating and I think they’re paying havoc with my iSpindel as the pic will show the red line going up and down...

Hi there, I’m planning a NEIPA style brewday next weekend and was wondering what to add to my latest water profile. I think I might need some calcium chloride but as for how much wouldn’t know what to look for in the report. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

I finally got around to kegging a beer, great. I washed it, sterilised it and did a closed transfer with no problems. I followed Brewfather’s force keg guidelines and after a week I had flat beer and foam. I boosted the co2 to 30 psi, more foam. I’ve agitated the beer (youtube vids) even worse...

I’ve been trying to get some co2 for my first kegerator. But I’m having trouble getting some small co2 canisters, everywhere I’ve tried in the Edinburgh area stars selling at 6kgs. I don’t suppose anyone has as small canister they’re not using anymore they’re willing to sell? Many thanks

I’ve been thinking of using a food grade bucket with lots of holes drilled in the bottom for sparging. I’ve got a Brewzilla and currently use a jug to pour my sparge water over my mash. I finish the sparge a little quickly and think a bucket on top of the malt pipe with lots of little holes over...

I’m about to get my second Corny and I was wondering if you can add a ‘y’ and feed Co2 to two kegs instead of getting a new regulator. I know I would have to serve at the same psi but for the brews inside that wouldn’t be a problem. This would only be a short term fix.

I’m getting corny keg sodastream set up from BKT. I’m going spurge and get the nukatap option but I’ve got a question many on here will be able to answer. Can I change the keg mounted fitting to a shank when the inevitable happens and another keg appears and the brew fridge becomes a kegerator...

Following my ‘Vevor Growler’ thread I’m looking at getting my first Corny keg. The only problem is due to space I’m going to have to share my fermentation fridge with the Corny. Has easy would this be IRL? And will the temp changes spoil the beer inside the keg? I haven’t found a ‘guide’...

Hi all. I was wondering if any of you had or have had one of these. With fathers Day creeping in I’m getting asked by her indoors if there’s anything I need/want and I can’t say what I really want - too much money - but I say these and had a light bulb moment. But if they’re not so good I’d...

Hi everyone. After already brewed this kit from the very excellent CML, I decided to give it another go. I foolishly bought a bottle of Landlord to compare against my previous attempt. Both served at garage temperature, bottle was lighter in colour and quite heavily carbonated compared against...

Just a quick question but first some background. I have a Harlequin NEIPA in my fermenter and the colour is frankly amazing, hopefully it tastes as good as it looks. I haven’t got cornies so I’m bottling up. So here’s the question. Has any one bottled straight from a syphon with a bottling...

Hi everyone and HNY. Due to time constraints I’m pimping two Wilko cans and 500g of light DME. I was going to dry hop 100g each of Citra and Mosiac, I’ve done this a few times and generally comes out quite well. But I’ve got some Cascade and Centennial in stock and am thinking of a 3C IPA...

I’m thinking of getting an allrounder. I fancy the idea of seeing what’s happening when fermentation is going, I’m not ready for fermentation under pressure yet but at least I’ll be half way there when I decide to start. Has anyone got any experience with these? It would be great to find out if...

This evening I opened my FV to take a gravity reading and found this. This is my CML landlord recipe brewed two weeks ago. OG was 1.052. Tonight’s reading was 1.010 so I guess it’s finished. Over the past two weeks I’ve left it to do its job and haven’t peeked inside. To me it doesn’t look too...

I brewed CML’s landlord clone on Sunday and everything went smooth. OG was higher than expected, 1.052 in stead of 1.043. But apart from that no problems. I pitched the Midland yeast at 23c, but this morning there was still no activity. Is this yeast a slow starter or should I be a little worried.

Today was the day I popped my BZ cherry. ‘Er indoors took the boy to football which helped me start early. Strike water heated while breakfast was taken, Golden Promise was mashed in. At that point I realised I needed more water so I added 1.5l to the sparge and hoped it would be enough (should...

How do you clean a Brewzilla? I received my Brewzilla a couple of weeks ago but have only just got round to playing with it. I did a trial run with water yesterday and am hoping to find the time this weekend for the maiden brew. So I need to clean it properly. I have some oxy cleaner and...

Whilst looking online at different grain malts I found there are lots of company’s producing the same malt, e.g. Crisp, Simpson’s and Warminster all producing Maris Otter. So are some companies better than others? Do any of you stay with a ‘brand’ or just go with the best deal at the time?

I’m going to another can pimp and I’m hoping to use 100g of Citra and Mosaic with 50g Nelson Sauvin in a two stage dry hop. Having never used NS I’m wandering about the amount and hoping for a little advice. Cheers.

I’m thinking about doing a ginger beer for the missus and her dad. I don’t really want to do lots just enough to keep them happy. I might be going daft but I seem to remember reading someone reused the wort they brewed straight after racking off. Is this right? Can it be done?