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Hello all, Currently I have some lager at the end of lagering stage at ~0C. It was fermented at 10C. I'm wondering whether to let it warm back up to fermentation temperate before priming and bottling? According to the priming calculator i use if i enter a lower number for beer temperature i...

Hello all, Just wondering about how best to lager a Pilsner brew i'm making at the moment. The only vessels I have apart from my fermenter are glass demijohns, and some brew buckets that don't seal. Last time I was a bit shy of 10 litres so I racked to two 5 litre demijohns and topped up with...

Hello, I have been trying some recipes from a book called 'Brewing Classic Styles'. One of the lager recipes suggests mixing tap water with deionized water. And a water chemistry app I've using suggests the same thing. So I bought some dionized water. Cheapest stuff I can find: 'Car Plan' from...

Hello all, I've had a porter fermenting with LalBrew® Nottingham Beer Yeast for 2 weeks. It started off with a OG of 1053, aiming for a FG of 1013 fermenting at 19C. It took off fairly quickly (krausen after 12 hours) and had what seemed like a vigorous early fermentation. Then it slowed down...

I'm aware this isn't the done thing. But I've just started fermenting a porter. I usually let my beers ferment, leave them for a few days then bottle. All at the same temperature. I'm going to be away for a couple of days after xmas and was planning to bottle when I get back. However, I've...

I'm about to transfer to secondary for lagering on my second ever lager (currently starting diactyl rest). I'm going to be transfering to demijohns, with air locks. I'm just wondering about the headroom at the top of the neck. In my cider productions, when racking to secondary after...

Hello, I've fairly new to brewing and started making some 10 litre brews last year which used half a packet of yeast. So I folded the packet over, sellotaped it shut, put them in a zip-lock bag which i put in a tuppaware with my leftover wheat in my garage. I'm going to have a go at some of the...

Hello all, I'm sure this has come up before, but I could find anything easily with the search facility. I've been making cider for a few years, and its becoming quite palatable. More recently I had a go at brewing some beer, and had quite appetising results with a bitter, and a lager. I drink...

Hello all. I am attempting to brew my first lager following this recipe: German Pils Recipe - Grolsch Clone | Brewgr Its a Grolsch clone. I used Mangrove Jacks Bavarian Lager Yeast which would seem to be a slow starter, and the recipe said ferment for 14 days. I was getting no airlock...

Hello there. I've been making cider for several years now. I make it from decent cider apples and do a wild fermentation, and its generally pretty tasty. This years batch has quite a lot of floaty stuff in the bottom of the demijohns. My process this year was to ferment in a 5 gallon tub for...