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Hey folks. So my last brews have only got down to half the gravity it could do... pitched my last 4 + brews at around 0.06 gravity. and it never gets past 0.020 even 0.030!!! Pitching at perfect temperature every time, aerated the wort like crazy and then even bought oxygen cannister to give...

Hey folks, so I have worked out that my last few batches that stuck at a very high FG have been due to me not aerating the wort well enough. My birthday is coming up and my bonnie lass is going to buy me a gift, so I thought I could maybe get a wee oxygen wand and tank etc. Seems like it's...

I bought a new sample jar for my hydrometer, when I was buying it the guy in the store said. 'I like these jars you can just put your hydrometer in and just leave it'..... I nodded and thought WTF.... then I thought hold on is this guy a genius... If after you get signs of fermentation you...

So I am stuck at 20 began at 55 with safale 05, it was way way too hot to begin with :( so I had lots of activity at the start. It has been stuck for 5 days, 2 days ago I agitated it and am trying to gently get the temperature up, but if this remains like this for another week what are the...

Hey folkssssssss I have a bunch of dry hops in secondary, but I didn't break them up before I transferred onto them, so I have a couple of quite big dry clumps floating around on the top and I don't think these guys will ever soak up the lovely wort.... apart from opening up the lid is there...

Hey folks I have had some oak chips soaking in bourbon for more than a month.... stupid question but is there a limit to how long I can soak these for before I whack them into my beer... I'm guessing no but I want to be sure. Cheers for any help.

Hey folks. I have a coopers fermenting bucket which just has a loose lid which 'burps' out the co2 when it's fermenting. I am using it as a secondary at the moment, I am wondering can I throw a blanket over the whole thing?... this will weigh down and stop the lid from burping but it...

Hey folks, I see allot of people on youtube videos etc. lob in a wee bit candied sugar into their all grain boils, and I have been scouring through the forum reading other posts about other sugars etc. and I was wondering if people could add in some comments to this thread to help me collect...

Hey folks, just moved onto all grain and have got some really good advice from reading the forum cheers folks. 2 batches on the go... first one I can't remember what I bought : / second batch is as follows. 4.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter 0.50 kg...