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The bottom plate for the Brewzilla gen 4 malt pipe is stepped. Which way up should it go, with the middle being the highest or the lowest? I'm asking out of academic interest - I've used it both ways and not noticed any difference but they must've designed it that way for a reason

Hi I just put my Brewzilla 65l gen 4 on to pre-heat the mash water but almost immediately there was fizzing and smoke from around the power socket and the circuit tripped. I unplugged the lead and discovered this: I think what has happened is that, with the proximity of the Brewzilla to an...

Yesterday was my first brew with the Brewzilla 35l extender so I thought I’d pass on my thoughts for anyone that’s interested. I bought the extender with the idea that I’d be able to fill two Corny kegs from a single brew. I did actually manage to make 38 litres with it so I guess, technically...

The jacket from my Brewzilla looks like it could do with more than the usual wipe down. Is it safe to put it in the washing machine?

Any recommendations for a reasonably priced four line shelf chiller and supplier thereof? I'm looking at the Cornelius Maxi 310 from Beer Coolers but its a bit pricey and the web site seems a bit dodgy (no contact address and a returns policy in dollars rather than £)

Is WLP037 a slow starting yeast? I pitched it into 21 degree wort yesterday at around half past two. Its now more than 18 hours later and there's absolutely no sign of anything happening. The temperature has been between 14 and 18 degrees and the wort is well aerated. The yeast was in date -...

I have a Robobrew but I guess the same (probably daft) question applies to most all in one systems. I've seen loads of posts here and elsewhere saying that the recirculation flow rate should be adjusted so that wort doesn't go down the central overflow. That kind of makes intuitive sense - if...

I ordered a 25kg sack of pale malt but the shop sent extra pale by mistake. I kept it thinking that the only difference between them would be the colour but that appears to not be the case. I'm formulating a recipe in Brewfather using 4.5kg of the extra pale but it comes up with an orange...

I made around 23 litres of cider from supermarket juice and kegged it on 12/01/2021. At the same time I also filled a 2 litre PET bottle. The cider in the bottle is crystal clear and has been for 5 or 6 days now but the cider in the keg is still densely turbid. A couple of days ago I drew off a...

I recently produced a batch of 20l turbo cider using Bulldog Sweet Cider Yeast and was surprised by how sweet it tasted at the end of fermentation (FG was 1.000). SWMBO was very pleased with it so I'm going to make it again. In fact, I'm going to make two batches, one after the other by simply...

Like others here I am a returning from a long brewing sabbatical. I gave up over ten years ago (probably nearer fifteen) when I got sick of equipment failures, principally the kettle element burning out, and the faff-on using stuff I never really had confidence in: The plastic walls of my old...