Recent content by jakwhite

Yeah I may try brown sugar, No I didn't experiment with sugar I experimented with flavourings I usually use brewing sugar that's all I know as that's all that's on the bag it's in a 1kg bag

What sugar would you guys suggest then I didn't know you could use any, obv my brew is going to be a traditional British ale

Well I'm doing a British ale next I'm going to get some brewing sugar as with my last one I experimented and it was awful Also I've read the instructions and I need the water to be a certain temp, so hopefully the bigger shop where I get my sugar from will have floating thermometers

Just been to my local hbs to get some sugar he only has packs of standard sugar not brewing sugar, does it matter? Like majorly would you guys recommend me going a lil out my way to the other shop to get some brewing sugar?

The burners don't seem a problem as we have gas hobs, it was more the heater as in the uk we have alot of safety regs on boilers/water heaters, but definitely get an alarm in the uk we have 2 types a patch of paper that changes colour which is useless as it gets older it changes anyway, or we...

Blow off valves are an option but you'd end up flooding the place or getting burnt wet feet every time you turn your Tap on to the manifold, You can buy pressure reducing valves for hot water I've had to fit them on showers before but I don't know how low you can go, instead of silicone hoses...

Or it's just came to me there are fittings called pressure reducing valves, we in the uk use them on new build houses to limit the pressure for the plastic pipe workload only thing is I'm not sure how low you can turn then down, I could phone my merchants tomorrow if that would help?

It's looking awesome! Where is the water heaters flue going to discharge? I'm not sure how you could get low pressure hot through a water heater as that's 1 of the reasons we have them the only way I personally can think of doing it is Getting the smallest copper cylinder possible and having...

Gas engineer, I work more with the values of proportion of incoming gas (Somebody digs a road up, I go drill the mainline shove a tester in check its values, seal it, then check households for the incoming, aswell as boiler maintenance) My business cards say engineer and it sounds better than...

Yeah your very correct, to me that is brew day putting it all into my fermentor then checking gravity etc then syphoning it from my fermentor to my barrel, I've literally had a week of going through this forum I've not been able to stop looking at everybody's set ups etc and can't wait to...

Looks great! I'd love a man cave think I'm going to end up as my shed being a mans shed which I won't get anytime in lol

Thankyou I still need to Learn what's what and more detail on things Like step by step recipes I downloaded the beer alchemy thinking it would have that but it's confusing! I'm going to keep onto it though for when it will make sense!

Sorry but what is the pump used for? It's a fantastic idea how its portable etc etc but I'm not sure what its used for, Once I get my shed up and running fully I really want to get into brewing properly

Sorry but what is the pump for? I'm new to all this when I have my shed set up for brewing I want to get into it all fully using grains etc

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