Recent content by DarrenUK

I didn't look at the water quality when I made this batch of beer. I not long moved to Ramsgate and just went ahead and brewed a kit beer I have done many times before. Anyway.... Its tastes awful this time. Taste of blood or Pennies. Cheaked the water quality and there is a large amount of...

A forced carbonated cider I quickly whipped up. Its a bit naff if I'm honest but it was from tesco apple juice so I wasn't expecting much

Seen them all at this point. Got to the old videos more recently. I wish I. Got to them sooner because knowing koji isn't actually mold it's just a name for the rice with Aspergillus Oryzae it might have saved me a headache

Yeah that's the idea. My problem was all the videos and advice is so mixed it's hard to know where your going. I would like to think I have a reasonable idea what I'm doing now. But ai definitely started to cold. Its not all that different from making anything else but I guess I got lost in the...

Sake experiment click here. I started this experiment on the sister forum of this one... Before I found this one (this one is far better) Just to save me time I linked it the other forum so I don't have to repeat myself.

Using koji on malts and grains. Has anyone tried this? Now I know that there is probably isn't the most effective way of doing but I'm just interested if there are different flavours if your extracting the sugars cold. Just qurious more than enything.

If you can't get hold of them try Angle Rice Leaven I have been doing testing with this stuff on a different thread. This one had no added yeast. This one I added yeast and it definitely started faster. I'm not yet at the end of the test. But I can say the one without yeast added smells...

Update. I left the lunchboxes at the temperature they've been. Not that I don't believe any of the advise but that I started the experiment on a video I watched and I figured I would atleast finish it since there wasn't long left. I have been paying more attention to it the last few days and...

Will give it a go. Thanks 👍

Nice. Yeah I'm probably just going to do that and add a little of irish moss for my ipa. My tap water is destroying my beer. I not long moved to Kent and the same kit I used before and loved tastes awful here. Anyway... Thanks for ya time guys.

They don't supply my area. Its no worry. I will use bottled water and go from there.

That's a shame. That's the full report. The other pages are different areas. Destilled water it is then.

Need a little help getting my water to a usable state and I don't really know what I'm looking at here. I know its extremely heavy water. Camden tablets will lower the chlorine but other than that I don't know if this even workable. Also. I can do 50/50 with destilled to half the amounts. I...

Junmai would seem the easiest.

Yeah it's definitely to cold then. I will move it to a warmer room. We'll if there is definitely yeast in there then the bubbles are probably it trying to start. Will see. I will give it another week. Its interesting that they recommend adding water. I was under the impression you don't. I...