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I bottled my Black Forest stout beer with 1tsp sugar on 6 Dec 2021 and placed the bottles in a fermenting bin, on a heat pad and lagged the inside of the bin with bubble wrap. The temp variation is negligible and stays around 20c but, judging by the “give” in the plastic bottle, no secondary...

Hi all, I don’t have any sparging equipment and, instead, “rinse” the mash through fine netting into a fermenting bucket. This is problematic because I can’t regulate the temp of the sparge water with any accuracy. I’m hoping that this isn’t really that big an issue but, if it is, what...

Just bottled my AG raspberry stout but lost about 1.5L from a 5L batch to trub. The two djs in the picture are a stout to which I added 1Kg spray malt after the boil, the other (empty) one had no spray malt at all. I would have expected the first to produce more trub but the opposite has...

I started 2 x 5L stout brews on 21st & 22nd November. Brewing at approx 15 - 18C using 5g Mangrove Jack M44 yeast. One has 1kg MO, 80g chocolate malt, 108g roasted barley, 1kg Black Forest fruit mix with 200g sugar boiled down to 1kg purée and then 1kg medium spray malt added after the boil. 2nd...

Hi all, my hydrometer is of unknown provenance and I’m guessing it’s quite old. I don’t understand 2 of the three scales and the 3rd is simply “pot abv” which, although clearly understandable, seems too good to be true as there are too many factors which would affect final abv. I’ve attached...

Hi, I’m about to embark on my 3rd brew starting with all grain. I’ll be making my own mash from black malt and/or chocolate malt and roasted barley. On my previous brew I added spray malt after the sparging but I’m wondering whether that’s necessary this time. This brew will be a Black Forest...