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Today I became a twin fermentation cabinet brewer. 😂 This will allow for faster turn around. The small fridge used for bottle conditioning and the larger for the snubnose fermenter.

Hi guys. I have a new batch of PET bottles arriving tomorrow. Just wanted your thoughts on how clean they are from new. What do you guys do with new plastic bottles. 1. just sanitise with starsan and fill. 2. wash with cleaner then starsan. My thoughts are they should be clean and only...

Just a word of warning. I put 40 used PET bottles in the dishwasher on Saturday just to give them a quick clean prior to bottling 40 pints of cider. I had previously done it with glass bottles and thought it would be a quick pain free way to rinse them prior to use, they had already been...

Just put this on today. Interesting to see what it’s like. Hopefully a nice Xmas/winter drink. Interesting thing was that the kit only came with 6g of unspecified yeast. I thought this was a thing of the past and that even Woodford’s wherry comes with 2 packs now. Fortunately I had a 10g...

I was visiting a beer reseller for some items last week and decided to try a few of the beers he sells on behalf of local craft breweries. I was interested to see how a £4/pint craft beer faired against my own kit beer. So off I went home with a 6 pint selection pack from a small local Suffolk...

In the interest of information sharing I thought I would pass on my findings to anyone that may be interested. Wishing to limit the risk of oxidation to as low as possible, and still bottle, I purchased a snub nose and beer gun. In the interest of keeping initial outlay as low as possible, and...

Looks like there’s a new operating system on the block. Anyone upgraded yet.

Recently started an MJ Simcoe single hop IPA. It came with M44 yeast. Pitched the yeast at 23C as the fermentation fridge was dropping the temp to 19C. Checked after about 18hrs and found the yeast to all be in the cone of the snub nose. It looked like a beer that had been in the primary for 3...

Just wondered if there was anyone in the Essex/ Benfleet area, that has come across the cheapest supplier for CO2. If so how much. just looking ahead if the current soda stream option ends up being expensive.

Quick question. Just going to start my first beer probably an IPA in the snub nose. Going to do the first one at around 10psi. The plan is to cold crash it and then bottle straight from the FV using a bottle filling beer gun. This allows me to purge the bottles too. So bearing in mind the beer...

So having started this great hobby in February, and having now reached 150lts of drinking greatness, it’s time for a slight upgrade in kit. Started with a 30lts FV bucket 25lts bottling bucket and a temp controlled fermentation fridge. To date I don’t believe I have had any issues and all beers...

Hi ladies and gents. Quick question regarding yeast and FG. What is it that determines FG and causes the yeast to stop. Is it alcohol tolerance or residual sugar. Ie. I understand that yeasts have tolerance to alcohol, so if a yeast has an alcohol tolerance of 7% ABV and an expected FG of 1014...

Just put on my flagship west coast IPA. looks a quality kit. 3 lots of hops a hop filter bag 2x cans LME and 1kg of brewing sugar. Decided to brew it long as I’m not in the need for a 7% beer during the summer. Added an extra 2l of bottled water and brought the OG down from 1072-1058. Should...

Afternoon all. Just interested in your thoughts on switching yeasts when brewing kits I’ve been thinking of trying a Mangrove Jacks IPA kit and using Verdant yeast. Has anyone tried it or have thoughts on it. I’ve already brewed the MJ juicy as standard and wondered if this could be improved...

So started this journey at the end of Feb and enjoying it. Yesterday was a busy day. Brew 4 was bottled and number 5 in the fermenter @ 18.5C. To date. Pilgrims hope. 40 pints Cwtch 36 pints MJ juicy session IPA 40 pints MJ American pale ale 40 pints Courage Director’s. So far PH has a...

So I’m 4 kits in since mid February, currently been bottling and brewing on the same day to get some beer in the system. Currently using a 30l bucket for primary in a fermentation fridge, then rack off and batch prime before bottling. Bottles then share the fermentation fridge for 14 days to...

So I’ve just stated brew 4, and have been making some modifications to kit as I begin the learn more. I had been hoping to be able to ferment and bottle condition in the same fermentation fridge, but found that the initial layout wouldn’t give me a high enough temp split between FV and bottle...

Been having a play with the fermentation fridge over the last few days prior getting the next beer on. ive been using the top of the fridge to condition the previous batch once bottled, but it hasn’t been getting as warm as I would have liked. so, I purchased a second 40w tube heater and a...

Hi guys. Just started my MJ Juicy IPA. Made a small error and only made it up to 20.5lts took a gravity and pitched the yeast. Then realised I’d short brewed it so immediately added another 2lts of bottled water. Obviously couldn’t then recheck the OG. I’m not worried about the beer as I’d...

Planning on brewing the Mangrove Jacks juicy IPA, tomorrow. purchased 26lts of bottled water today to try brewing with.