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What's this got to do with brewing ? How come the moderators haven't removed it? This site is a great source of info, people come here to get away from that ****. If this is gonna be a regular occurrence I'm not sure I wanna be on here.

It's a copper colour bitter

Thanks very much for all the info. If my beer is at 2.5%,will the added fermentables raise this?

Hi all, Sorry another stuck fermentation thread. Did a grain brew a week ago but mashed a bit high at 70-72 (trying to get a full body beer but overdid it.) SG was 1043 when I pitched. The yeast head fell in after 2 days so I took a gravity reading = 1027. That's 2% abv. But a...

Hi all, Sorry another stuck fermentation thread. Did a grain brew a week ago but mashed a bit high at 70-72 (trying to get a full body beer but overdid it.) SG was 1043 when I pitched. The yeast head fell in after 2 days so I took a gravity reading = 1027. That's 2% abv. But...

Thanks everyone for your advice. I'll look into pasteurising. I should explain that his doctors have advised he can lead a normal life on one kidney and drink like anyone else. They advised me the same thing because I gave him the kidney. It's trickier for him because he has to worry about...

Hi everyone, my cousin has just had a kidney transplant and the doctor said he could only drink stuff that's been pasteurised. We often drink my homebrrew together so I'm wondering whether I can do anything about it. So my question is, if I make beer from boiled grain, does that count...

Thanks trueblue, that's gonna be my back up if starsan doesn't work out.

Thank you to all that replied, I think I'll buy starsan and use bottled water. I've asked a few questions on here and I can't tell you how much I appreciate you blokes taking the time to reply, this forum and all you lot are brilliant thanks.

Thanks Bigjas

Starsan instructions say nothing about hard water or ph, so far as I can see. I think the answer is mix starsan with a suitable bottled water (if you know what to look for, which I don't quite yet), or get distilled water from Halford or someone. But there must be a reliable sanitiser...

Soton I'm eastleigh! So you check the mix ph and if it's under 3 it's OK to use?

Thanks, that's great. How did you know Tesco Ashbeck was soft water? What did you look out for on the bottle? And how do you know it's still effective?

I note people are focusing on the pH bit to justify starsan but I'd be just as happy to hear about alternatives for hard water areas.

There's loads of talk about this on other sites, Thumper but I'm guessing it's not allowed to post links from other forums. It does sound crazy when you say about fish etc. Maybe they mean it has to be under 3 AFTER you've added starsan. Would that make more sense?

Does the water go cloudy when you use it? I've been wondering about all this stuff because the bloke in the local homebrew shop won't stock it cos he says it's useless round here because of the hard water. I have googled this and there are numerous threads talking about this < ph3 business...

Hi all, I am looking for a no rinse sanitizer but I'm in a hard water area. The PH is 7.35 according to the water people. I would use Starsan as people rave about it, but I read this is only ok for PH of 3 or under. Hard water (or high PH) renders it ineffective. Can anyone recommend a...

That's excellent peebee, thank you. Very interesting. I knew GW was old school but that's not a bad thing a lot of the time. He must have been doing something right I guess! I've tried an airlock on the fv but it didn't do anything. And I tend to have a peak now and then. Conical fermenters...

That's excellent peebee, thank you. Very interesting. I knew GW was old school but that's not a bad thing a lot of the time. He must have been doing something right I guess! I've tried an airlock on the fv but it didn't do anything. And I tend to have a peak now and then. Conical fermenters...

Thanks Terry. Drop/rack is same. I just mean transferring into another fv after a couple of days to get the beer away from the dead stuff, rather than sat on it for 2 weeks.