Search results

The Homebrew Forum

Help Support The Homebrew Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. brucestevenson916

    Electric boiler

    Hi, I want to just buy an electric wort boiler. Anyone know a good place to buy one? So far I've got prices from £150-£400 depending on where you shop. Looking for it to be -60-70 ltrs -insulated like a mash tun -2 electric elements with thermostat control (preferably digital) -temp gauge...
  2. brucestevenson916

    North East Scotland Home Brew Club

    Is there any Aberdeenshire Brewers club? I'm in laurencekirk.
  3. brucestevenson916

    steam powered boiler

    Hmm actually the tanks are rates to a max of 2.5 bar, so operating at 2 bar I'm not sure you would be able to produce the amount of heat needed to boil 30+ ltrs of wort. As you could maybe only get 110c 115c out of the steam The real worry is just that the amount of heat provided by boiling...
  4. brucestevenson916

    Soft water treatment

    Right, so I've found out that my supply water is pretty much rain with no hardness whatsoever. I am putting this down to the cause most of my brews finishing at 1.020 since I moved here. Here are the stats; 10.51mgCA/l calcium 0.63mgmg/l magnesium 28.80 Hardness as mg/l CaCo3 My plan is to...
  5. brucestevenson916

    AG finishing gravity 1.020

    My local brew store has burton salts which is what you are on about with DLS. Am currently reading up on water treatment so I think I'll return to da star for yeast and get my calcium and magnesium to a minimum level. I suppose the silver lining with my water being the softest is I now...
  6. brucestevenson916

    AG finishing gravity 1.020

    Aye, turns out I have very very soft water! Next to nothing in it, calcium is very low so mash and yeast health must be suffering.
  7. brucestevenson916

    AG finishing gravity 1.020

    so my area on that is white hillocks. meaning I've got softy water and the following:- 10.51mgCA/l calcium 0.63mgmg/l 28.80 Hardness as mg/l CaCo3 what does this mean for brewing in English? what is your minimum readings for the average style?
  8. brucestevenson916

    AG finishing gravity 1.020

    20-23ltr and rehydrated over night then add dme to get it started on the day. The only difference is I've moved house and am wondering if it's the water causing the problems. Up in a village in Aberdeenshire.
  9. brucestevenson916

    AG finishing gravity 1.020

    Different, mostly I date mangrove jack yeasts, Bavarian wheat, bohemian lager, west coast us, and Belgium ale.
  10. brucestevenson916

    AG finishing gravity 1.020

    4 out of the last 5 AG brews I have done finish at 1.018-20. Different styles and ingredients, different mash times and temps, tried 64deg 2 hour mash, 67deg 2 hr mash, 3 x 66deg 90min mashes. The one beer came out at 1.010, the only difference with this beer is it had 100g black malt. All have...
  11. brucestevenson916

    steam powered boiler

    Nah, typically water pressure in a home is 3-6bar so the tank should be engineered to take more than that, same as the copper pipe work. Saying that, if it pops I'll be sure to let you know!
  12. brucestevenson916

    BrewPi, stc1000 or fermostat

    well I've got the stc-1000 and it works great for me for fermenting and lagering/conditioning. very simple gadget.
  13. brucestevenson916

    steam powered boiler

    Im thinking of building a steam powered boiler, just wondered if anyone has any success or failure from this. My idea is to get a 80L hot water tank cut 30L of the top of it (alongwith the immersion heater) and solder it to the bottom. As a result, you have a contained water reservoir with...
  14. brucestevenson916

    Whats the hype with real ale.

    A beer that isn't carbonated (naturally or forced) doesn't have much of a head. Canny stand a flat looking pint. Lets face it, after 5 pints of near room temperature beer, my tastebuds are done. 5 pints of cool beer that is more carbonated goes down nicer and is more refreshing. Its how you...
  15. brucestevenson916

    How many gallons of homebrewed beer in 2014?

    5 gal APA 5 gal nookie broon 5 gal strong honey beer 5 gal american wheat beer 5 gal lager/APA not bad since may! stout with noz next! takes it to 2052.6
  16. brucestevenson916

    Whats the hype with real ale.

    I know this might be a controversial thing to talk about. but Im a die-hard ale drinker, have been drinking ale since I first started drinking. My problem is that every time I go to a real ale fest, I look for my favourite brewers of which bottled beer I love, and its ALWAYS dissapointing...
  17. brucestevenson916

    Citra cerveza

    Gotta share this as its becoming what all my friends ask for when theyre around! Very simple, brew up a coopers Mexican cerveza kit with 1kg of brewers sugar and half kilo of extra light DME. Let it ferment out then I rack the beer into a 2nd vessle, and just throw 10g of citra hops into the...
  18. brucestevenson916

    Simple Honey Ale

    I like my honey beer. The last batch I made was 2.3 kgs light malt extract, (could try AG with 4kg pale malt with maybe 200crystal 23 ltrs). 40g of bittering hops, then maybe 10g in the last 15 with you Irish moss. Let that ferment out, then add 500 g honey when I rack my beer off after 10 days...
  19. brucestevenson916

    slight vinegar smell

    Well, I bottled it, added the sugar! And now I have beer-vinegar! Stinks, down the drain it goes!
  20. brucestevenson916

    slight vinegar smell

    aye well I had to re-start the brew again because it finished at 1.018 as a lager, still sweet, so I sprinkled a new yeast on and it started again and finished at 1.008, but the lid had been off a few times. all in all I think the worst brew Ive made!
Back
Top