Recent content by blade_420

Be really interested to hear how this turns out. I'm brewing an all citra ipa today or tomorrow. Extract batch but my hop load is amazingly higher than yours so I'm thinking i might revise my recipe lol. I'll post it when I'm home.

Long time but just to update those that might be interested, I bottled this 2/3 weeks ago now. Having now sunk a few bottles of the stuff I've got very mixed reviews, some people like it (probably cause it's alcoholic and they got it free) but I'm not keen. Might try something like this again...

I'd take it back. I keep looking at chillers and they're not cheep (in the uk at least, and I have expensive taste lol). Is it leaking from the coil or one of the connections?

Strawberry and lime koppenberg on a hot day or a heavy session. I know it's not real cider but is sweet and alcoholic. Please don't tell anyone lol

Having worked in pubs and managed cellars for nearly 4 years my concern would be over leaving beer lines 6 weeks with out cleaning no mater the reason, it's just rancid and cleaning all 8 ale lines takes me about an hour, little longer for all the draft ones. Would rather do it myself and know...

House usually sits at 21C, not sure the exact temp of the room it's in. Need to get a max/min temp thing so I can tell

Shows what a night does.....

Right now coming up for 33hours since I pitched the yeast, no airlock activity as far as I can tell but there's a very slight 'head' on the top of the beer. Literally just tight enough to not see beer through it. I'm not doing anything till the morning so I'll report back then. Should I still...

On that note anyone know where I can get some starsan in the uk?

It was a wyeasy activator pack so it should be ok....I hope. Had a quick chat with the head brewer at work and he said don't worry unless its not going by late tonight. Also said the only time he tried home brewing it turned to **** and he dumped it. Hahahhaa

Right, I've just checked on my beer and there seems to be **** all happening. There's no 'head' of any sort and no movement from my airlock. Any chance it's just being slow or is it just not gunna happen? It's. Been about 17 hours since I pitched the yeast.

Cheers for the input guys. I took water out cause with the extract it was about an once from the top of the pot. With the hops added I was worried when it boiled it would just boil over, I got slightly higher SG than I was expecting anyway. And trust me, I got some gin in the beer lol. So far...

Always wanted to try it and toyed with the idea for years. Now I work in a pub with a brewery and one of my mates just started up after a few years off. Kinda put the buzz in me again so I bought a starter kit. Brewed up my first batch today.

Ok so first brew is now in the fermentor. Came out at 1.052 ish. Had a couple of problems through the day... 1. Used to much water in the boil before the extracts, took some out and slowly added it as I had some boil off. Managed to put most of it back into the boil. 2. Added my 20 min...

Ok so it's brew day. Currently waiting on a boil but I put in to much water before the extracts. I've taken some out so I reduce the chance of a boil over but I need to know if I should ditch it and chance a lower abv (got some dme I could add) or add it to the fermentor at the end? HELP!!!!