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Having brewed the same recipe a few times over and slightly different results each time (and having done slightly different things each time too), in wondering what I need to do to try to push that "Belgian Abbey/Trappist flavour" to the max. I'm rubbish at describing flavours and have read a...

I have 31 pint sized brown glass homebrew bottles to give away. Pickup from the Southampton area (I am open to deliveries if I happen to be passing your direction... Feel free to ask)

My GF Counterflow chiller is getting slightly annoying. It has 4 permanently attached hoses which get in the way a lot when you're trying to move/clean/attach/pack it and it's light fighting with half an octopus a times. I've not done much plumbing work before, and found this handy guide on the...

I've never really actually looked at the cold break forming in the sample jar. I normally just take a sample, carry on with the transfer/cleanup and read it later. Going into the sample jar was really cloudy today, which was odd because it's normally really clear. 20 minutes later I noticed it...

Sad news https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/05/black-sheep-brewery-enters-administration/

Does anyone else on here use HomeAssistant for their geeky automation? It was mentioned on a few iSpindel threads before. Anyway, I've had an iSpindel for a while, and after a cold winter got myself a heat-belt. I've only-just now got the two wired together so I have thermostatic control of my...

I get chill haze that clears after a couple of weeks in the cold garage when it's cold. I thought I'd photograph it over the course of a 2 week period in the fridge. The beer was fermented and conditioned at 20C until it was cleared, then put in the fridge at ~9 degrees for 2 weeks...

After many many years using an inversion chiller, I moved to a CFC with the grainfather purchase a couple of years ago. For those who use CFCs, how long do you wait after the end of the boil before transferring/cooling your wort (when not deliberately doing a hop stand)? I used to chill...

Efficiency comes up a lot as it's very easy to measure sugar extraction from your mash/sparge/process. But it's a lot harder to measure flavour extraction. I've been thinking about it for a while and @peebee made a similar comment here In my mind, there is no clear link between sugar extraction...

We've just had a water softener installed with our new kitchen (loving it). The engineer/scientist in me is how wondering how they work. I've done lots of searches for it, and largely get publicly videos saying how great they are and the benefits, and even the more technical ones only go as far...

My wife is keen for me to make a New Zealand IPA. We had one last year (Magic Dragon's Dolphin, which is apparently brewed with Motueka). Nelson Sauvin also sounds interesting (as we are both a fan of Malrborough Sauvignon blanc as well). But having not used the hops before, I don't have much...

Does anyone have advice on bottle rinsers? There seem to be a couple on the market. Are they any good? Is the big one better than the small one or vice versa? https://www.thehomebrewcompany.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3657...

Some things like champagne have a stream of very tiny bubbles. Some champagnes vary from others. Some thing like coke have very big bubbles Some beers have a fine stream of little bubbles, whilst some have bigger ones. The Hefeweizen I'm drinking at the moment has bubbles that get bigger as...

Why have I not thought of this before. One of those metal spike things for doing baked potatoes doubles perfectly as a bottle draining tool (provided you don't want to drain more than 5 bottles at once). Genius!

I've seen a few posts recently about getting your water profile. The best way is to get your individual water tested or get a test kit and get a report, but as a fallback you can just use your water provider's report. Reading (or even finding) the water report isn't easy and given I went through...

I just pitched some MJ M31 (Belgian Trippel) this morning. Out of the packet it looked like this - very odd (the two tone beige/brown). Has anyone seen anything like this before? I assume that M31 is a blend of two different types of yeast and this is just its colour. It hydrated fine and went...

The grainfather CFC (and maybe others) say that it should go a particular way up (with the cold tap water coming in at the bottom, and the hot wort coming in at the top). Why does it matter? The flow rates of water/wort will be far faster than any convection currents. That's about the only...

Re-reading this thread got me thinking about what is the major contributor to oxidation in the bottle (don't say "oxygen" :laugh8:) - oxygen that dissolves as you transfer, or oxygen in the headspace that dissolves during carbonation/conditioning/storage. Many homebrewers (especially new...

I'm not a fan of highly bitter beers. I don't like West coast IPAs much. This evening I'm drinking a brew made by a friend that's come in at 116 IBU! 😲 What's the highest rated IBU you've made or drunk?

I've just finished bottling a strawberry infused wit beer. Talking with a friend, I said I'd put more in and probably use fruit puree instead of whole mashed fruit next time... but then he mentioned jam. Apart from adding _lots_ of sugar, which will make it more alcoholic (not necessarily a bad...