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I've just finished my 3rd ever batch of home brew My first batch last year was amazingly tasty - second batch failed because i was experimenting with dry hopping with unusual ingredients For this 3rd batch iv gone back to the original recipe Im tasting it just now and its quite nice - a...

Cheers guys i dont know what i would have done without you :)

I literary just finished about two hours ago If i ordered some extract today and it arrived in a day or so - would that be time enough do you reckon?

oh my god heavywalker you just made me realize what i've done wrong! I only added one 1.5KG tin of malt extract when i was supposed to add in two! What a disaster :( Problem solved - i f**ked up Thanks anyway everyone

Thanks for getting back to me soo quickly! Wort as at room temperature when the reading was taken There was topoff water introduced by was thoroughly mixed through

Hi all My first batch went perfectly and i got a solid 1.060 reading on my hydrometer back then I've just finished my second batch, and my hydrometer is a shocking 1.020!? I dont understand whats different, the only change i made to the process was the hops i used for the aroma near the...

I dont wanna use a kit tho, just seems like cheating The recipe above i used grains hops etc i went out and bought myself kits just seem like a "just add water" solution to cheating yourself out of enjoying brewing and sorry WayFrae but you didnt really answer my question there, i asked: "Is...

I shoudl add as well that the sorta recipe i have in mind would use lapsang souchong leaves as a dry hop to get a smokey/wood smell to it - if anyone has smelled lapsang souchong before you'l knwo what i mean

Hi there My first ever batch was a success! it was beautiful and worth the wait! now im looking ahead to my next batch, and im having trouble trying to decide what to brew next i really want to do my own recipe rather than use someone elses, else i'll just feel like im copying? My...

Yeah i think i will try irish moss as opposed to Whirlfloc for my next batch, since whirlfloc hasn't really done the trick this time around I was considering cold crashing but i dont really have a method of doing so right now

Hi there My fermentation on my very first batch of beer (yey!) is almost complete - i am taking hydrometer readings to ensure it is time to bottle. What iv noticed in the readings however is the liquid is still rather murky/mud-waterish. It appears the Whirlfloc tablet i added in brewing...