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I brewed a "Better Brew" kit (Mild Ale) over 2 weeks ago and it's still bubbling the airlock! It will be 3 weeks in the barrel on Sunday. Never had one go this long. The first few days it had an inch of krausen and bubbled every few seconds just like all my other brews. When it calmed down...

I find it very difficult not to pour or syphon the cold break rubbish from the bottom of the kettle into the fermenter. Would using a coffee filter paper filter too much out? Any other suggestions for keeping the finer sludges out of the fermenter? (I'm not talking about bits of grain or...

I'm tempted to try the following to see if it will work.... 8 litres of water @ 65*C Add 1.5Kg of Mavis Otter Crushed in 3 strainer bags (my bags only hold about 500g) Add 500g of Crystal Malt in a strainer bag Put the lid on and leave @ around 65*C for 40 minutes. Remove bags and place...

My first lager has been in the works for quite a while now... Recipe: 2 gl batch and boil 50g carapils, 50g crystal, 1Kg - Light DME 28g Saaz Hops - 40min 2 weeks primary ferment @ 12*C 4.5 weeks secondary ferment @ 6*C Currently it is fast approaching 2 weeks in bottles. I...

In about 8 hours I'm leaving for the airport, heading to Spain for 6 days of intense paragliding training, then 3 days chilling out in a beach bungalow soaking up some rays and sea breezes. It's looking like 20-23*C and sunny, sunny, sunny, out there at the minute :) Have I made you...

My lager experiment no. 1 has had 12 days ferment at 12*C + 2 days ferment at 20*C + approaching 2 weeks lagering at 4-6*C. I am heading on holiday for close to 2 weeks. I figure if I bottle it on Thursday night, it will have had nearly 2 weeks in bottles by the time I return. Making it at...

I bought a 4 pack of this last night. It's Guinness's new attempt to open new markets. Like they did brewing stout in the first place. I don't think this one will take off though. It's basically something very similar to Guinness wort that has been lagered. Yes, a roasted barley lager! To...

I've noticed this a few times, but if I put a conditioned beer into the fridge for a few hours and it maybe gets to 10C/48F it stays clear and tastes great. If I leave it in the fridge for a day however, down to 2-3C/34-36F it goes completely cloudy like it just came out of the FV! I know...

My first two brews were kits + kilo and... they had that (what I considered) standard home brew 'twang', slightly solvent, slightly apple, slightly sweet, but sharp fruity tang that was rather unpleasant, but drinkable. I tried adding DME to the next one, but for some reason also added 700g of...

So... 12 days fermenting at 12C and the bubbles started to slow a lot. Great I thought, my secondaries arrive in 2 days I'll take it out of the fridge for a bit of a room temp rest before racking to secondary and lagering. Sounds reasonable? I thought it did. Fermentation was rapidly...

I took a sample of this on Friday and had a peak at it on Monday night and it looked fine... Today... Fullsize: http://www.campbell-multimedia.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/IMAG0359.jpg I'm guessing that dull, milky, bubbly coating is not meant to be there. Question...

I noticed this before in an extract brew. When the beer is cooled and put into the FV there is a LOT of stringy clouds of particulate matter swirling around like ghostly figures moving in the beer. In a matter of hours it settles out looking like fluffy wool, like that wadding stuff you used...

Is there any coorelation between how much you like the smell of your hops boil, to how you like the smell/taste of what comes out as beer in the end?

Yes it's mass produced stuff, but my GF loves it, doesn't drink much else. Is it like beer, hard to produce a good clone? I know nothing about brewing cider.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16466646 I realise not all of you may be able to see that, as the BBC are a little anal on what content they allow for international viewing of or not. It boils down to an initiative on reducing binge drinking. They are considering things like...

I'm finding it a little off putting that every European lager I look up on here to find recipes has the local USA brigade slamming it for being "skunky" rubbish. Stella, Becks, Hieniken etc. etc. all slanted as skunky German/European rubbish. Well, to be honest, I'm sorry for you guys that...

... but they do! Went to buy some random beers and was expecting just commerical mass brewed stuff. However they sell lots of little local microbrewery ales. So I ordered a few. I just wasn't expecting a huge supermarket like ASDA to sell these kinds of beer. Also spotted, though...

My GF asked if I wanted anything from the beer shop, she was going for cider. I said, just a handful of random beers please :) Never knew what I'd get. I got: An Erdinger Weifbier.... and I opened it, poured it and went, "WTF?", it's cloudy.... okay. I'd already read it was a wheat beer...

So, I was putting in an order for my first lager. Ingedients came to £13 for a 2gl batch.... but as it was over 1kg, shipping was £5.95. Then a light bulb lit up and I realised I'd be sitting at the PC in a weeks time ordering my next 5gl batch (circa £25) and another £6 to £10 shipping. So I...

I ran out of chilled beer last night and for some silly reason decided to taste a bottle that was only bottled on Saturday. I was my first full recipe, no kit, no sugar - Extract Red Ale with WYeast Irish Ale yeast. Yes, it tasted young, but it also has a strange peppery/spicy tone to the...