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Without wanting to sound dismissive (I'm taking the advice on-board) could somebody maybe give some pros as to why electricity is superior to gas? :confused: As far as I can tell, electricity works out cheaper per brew (pro), you can automate it (potentially an advantage for mashing) and you...

A bit ashamed to say I hadn't properly considered that option! :o I blame the fact you don't really see that any instructional videos using electricity. It's either someone doing extract on a stove, or AG on gas :confused: I think I'm still erring towards a gas boiler for a few reasons: I'm...

Hi all, I'm planning on making the 'jump' from stove to a propane burner. My issue is that in the UK we don't seem to have a "go to" burner that you can just order off Amazon so I was hoping for some advice. Basically I only do 5 gallon batches in a steel pot, but I honestly have no idea...

Brew in a bag. And a propane burner is definitely on my shopping list since reaching boil on a stove takes most of my day at the moment. I've not tried it myself but on Basic Brewing they were talking about how awesome 'no-chill' is, with folks brewing multiple batches in one day, and pitching...

Just to check, you're using your own equipment profile, right? And as others are saying, it's a great program. A lot of the numbers are automated based on values you enter elsewhere, but that can occasionally lead to confusion when you forget to delete a top-up volume here, or adjust a boil-off...

Does anyone know any research about HSA? I get paranoid about it, yet it kind of seems like one of those things that somebody just proposed 'might' be an issue without ever actually proving it.

Thanks for the comments, I'll up the strawberries to 3-4 pounds. I was also considering downing the IBUs to 17 or less, since I've noticed in other recipes that Belgian wheats seem to be even lower in hops than I initially suspected. I'll have a think about the dextrose. I understand it's...

Hi all. :) Trying to come up with a drink that I can give to my non-beer-drinking friends (sadly, most of them) and was wondering if someone can give this a once-over since I'm still quite new to forming my own recipes? I'm going for something that's fairly sweet and fruity that hopefully will...

Obtaining a large bag and stirring grains in 25L of water aren't hard, but yes i'll admit you still need to invest in a decently sized pot for all-grain whatever method you use.

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That's all it takes (well, 60 minutes instead of 30, ideally). I was going to a partial mash with this method, then after plugging the numbers in some brewing software, ended-up skipping straight to all grain! :D (basically 3-4 kg of base malt roughly matches two tins of extract I think) The...

Re: bottles. For the first couple of batches I got a collection of plastic bottles from buying budget sparkling water. Then over the months I amassed a big enough collection of glass bottles to use them exclusively. Supplying beer-drinkers with homebrew in exchange for their empties is a...

Just my 2 pence as a UK brewer: I think this is mostly because the average UK brewer is slower to keep up with developments in the hobby (but also less obsessed with getting crystal clear beer). In the US homebrewers tend to more cutting edge, spending their time on the internet reading up and...

Oh yes I accept that wholeheartedly, I was really just making the point that the extra bit of effort/expense doesn't necessarily always translate to a perceivable improvement in the final beer at the end of the day. But to each his own.

I'll be whirlpooling with a spoon in future. Did my first batch the other day and was shocked at the 1-2 inches of trub that appeared in my fermenter within hours of transferring. I figure I just need to give the wort and swirl and leave it for half an hour or so, instead of dumping it straight...

In the UK we just call flat beer "beer" :P To answer your question: buy some new caps, pry the old ones off, add sugar/carbonation drops to each bottle, recap and then shake them up. If they've been sat around for months you might want to mix some fresh dry yeast in with the sugar or...

Using an S airlock instead of the cylindrical ones should prevent that happening. I'm sure the beer's fine though. Sucking a little oxygen into the headspace won't destroy the batch, and people have spoken about entire gallons of StarSan going into batches and the beer coming out just about...

My home-made IC in its first use. I've subsequently compressed the coils so that the chiller doesn't rise above the level of the wort so dramatically. Aside from that, worked nicely!

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