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After having waiting for wife and kids to go away for weekend for what feels like monthsI have brew day at last. Has been worst day ever. Will update all the other disasters but electric boiler has broken just before hitting boiling point, I'm doing my first all grain so this stuff needs...

Did a leftovers extract brew which went text book apart from the loss of my hydrometer. Anyhow I pitched a wyeast kolsch yeast which I've had in the fridge for ages and although it took three days it's been fermenting nicely. After three weeks here was still a shallow krausen but as I needed...

Feeling like a right eeediot this morning :( Brewed a 4 gallon stout on Friday and all went well....apart from I used my first smack pack (Wyeast Irish Ale). Smacked it 3 hrs before pitching and it did nothing (pack didn't swell at all). I put this down to the yeast being cold and it...

Hey folks, Going to brew a 4 gallon stout tonight (my first!) then split the batch once I move to secondary (3-4 weeks time) into four 1 gallon demi-johns. The reason for this is I want to expermient with flavours. I was thinking the following: 1 Gallon - plain 1 Gallon - Chocolate...

Hi folks, long-time lurker on this excellent forum is digging his homebrew equipment out of retirement after a two year sabbatical to renovate a house. Just before it went away last time I did my first extract brew (done numerous kits) and made more mistakes than you could shake a stick at...

Filled my pressure barrel on Sunday and have been checking it sporadically, and noticed last night that the screw top has split (a good 3 inch split). If I squeeze it (i.e. try and tighten it) I can hear and smell gas escaping. So what should I do? 1) Buy a new lid for the pressure...

Brewed up for the first time last night.....and what a drama it was. I've done loads of reading and brewed several "kits" but it's not until you do you first boil that your discover all the bits you haven't read about! So did the folowing: 450g British Crystal Malt (Steeped in a...