Recent content by richc

I bought a cheap heated stirplate off ebay and unsurprisingly it didn't work well....

More hops, I like more hops, I feel a trip to the homebrew shop coming up....

As a brewer from the UK I have relatively little experience of the IIPA style so I thought I'd come to the experts to critique my recipe. I tried making the style a few years ago while still making extract beers and made an awful IIPA that became a decentish Barley wine after a year or so of...

If the gas is connected correctly you should be getting beer out whether it is carbonated or not

Wrong symbol, this is the right one for beer

Have you found the UK homebrewing forums? http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/ http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/index.php

Duvel and Chimay, nice, solid, bottles with the labels held on by something water soluble. With the added bonus of containing great beer to start with...

These US forums teach me something new every day, roasting turkey in a bag, strange....

It's an over flow pipe, he can dunk his pans into the sink and keep the tap flowing providing a continual supply of cold water.

My immediate call would be to little speciality malt and to complex hopping, I'd suggest doubling (at least) the speciality malt and dropping at least one hop.

Oh absolutely, I'm aiming for a sort of approximate number that gives some vague idea of what effects changing your recipe will have.

I'm playing with an open source brewing calculator tool and am thinking about improving the system that estimates the final gravity for a particular recipe. Currently the system uses an attenuation percentage entered by the user to make the calculation but I have seen other systems that make...

I'll have to give this one a go, I'm sat almost within line of sight of the original Boddies brewery and can still just about remember when it was a pretty decent beer.

Don't break it though, I made the mistake of inserting a beer that needs long aging into my usual brewing schedule and I have just run out of beer ;-(

Erm, where, I just scanned through that appendix again and I don't see much related to mash tun shape beyond the warning not to get to large a tun so your grain depth is deep enough. The fluid dynamics is about the design and positioning if the manifold in the tun rather than the actual shape...