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I'm strapped for cash and hopless till the end of the month. But what I have is a load of pale and crystal grain a good load of herbs tea and coffee. And a need to brew :-) I've done an extract beer and loaded up with coffee before, but was wondering? if as I'm sure others have been hopless any...

I've been brewing for a while now and have only bottled my beer. But for my birthday I was given some cash for my brewing :-) so along with a mash tun and a load of malted grain I got a Polypin with soda co2. What I'm thinking is, if I primed my polypin "left it for a couple of weeks to carb up...

I've been brewing from extract for about a year so 16 ish under my belt And my brother buys me a mash tun for my birthday :-) So I quickly put it into uses I'm just after any thoughts on what I've done Maris otter Pale 4kg 90 minute mash 90 minute boil 60g golden ( English ) for 60 20g...

Ok so I've tried making a honey beer I started a small batch 1 lb of of honey and 2 lbs of light malt extract for 2 gallons all went well not too strong. But it's not ended up tasting good. So I was thinking of blending it with a plain beer any ideas anyone? I was thinking 2/1 plain to honey?

I'm not sure if its the water or sanitiser I've used any ideas. I have filtered the water and washed out both demijohn carboy and mini kegs any ideas ?

I have come across a pumpkin ale recipe and still have a couple left over from autumn as well as a spare demijohn so I'm thinking of giving it a crack 1 gallon only as that's my spare demijohn and am still needing to keep everything else going as I've run out of beer that's ready --1 kg pumpkin...

Ok I'm just going to do a gallon and I'm thinking very simple So looking at 1.25 lbs of mde made up of dark and extra dark DME about 50/50 Hopping with fuggles about 1oz at start of 1 hour boil and an other 1oz about 5 minutes from the end Using Youngs yeast Has anyone any advice like I...

Hi all I cannot make out how strong my beer is likely to be ? My starting OG was 40 ish and looks to be ending at about 15/13 but I'm lost on the math I'm guessing about 3 ? Any help would be great !!

Silly question Should it be taken when the wort is ready to take yeast eg at 22c ish or is it ok to take before its get down to temp?

I have brewed a London bitter from a brupak and it fermented for the 10 days. I did not take a reading to start as I did not have a hygrometer at the time . I'm a little unsure if I should just bottle it or if I took a reading now what would be a good number to look for ?

I am brewing my first beer about 10lts and I've seen easy kegs 5 lts has anyone got any feed back on them As I'm hoping to take some beer to the in laws for Christmas and I think they will be easier than a load of bottle

I started brewing my first beer on Thursday and at some point the air lock has had beer come up and though it. I take its it's best to remove the air lock and clean and replace ASAP As well as clean the outside of the demijohn/carboy Any ideas welcome

Hi I have made a simple must? Honey water cinnamon cloves with orange and raisins only a gallon uk. The first fermenting went well (I think as bubbles were going from day one very regular easily 1 every 7/10 seconds ) so after a couple of weeks (bubbles now 1 a minute) I racked it of to a new...