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I brewed on Sunday 11 Jan the OG was 1.062 (15.2 Brix) I pitched in the evening. This morning I notice that the airlock that was very active is quite still , so took a dip sample for the refractometer just because I am curious. I read 8.5brix that concerts to 1.015 SG. '!!!!!!! Today it's...

My best brew day ever 15-11-14 Recipe .5kg biscuit malt, .8kg crystal malt, 4.7kg maris otter malt Total 6kg grains, mash liquor to grain ratio 3.5kg per 1 Liter so 21L mash liquor. @ 12:10pm strike at 72C , after doughing in this gave me 67C (a little high). @ 12:23 SG 1.054 13 brix...

I am hundreds of brews in, but found myself with a one gallon batch, it had a normal brew and normal fermentation, it had finished at 1.008ish. I bottled it and for some obscure reason, or no reason at all , I somehow found myself with the brew in the bottles , but without the priming sugar...

I did it today, used my new electric kettle today, poured my wort from the mash , so still hot, yes , the valve was open, I am not incontinent, damm, blast , profanity, but its only one leg and I suppose about a pint. Laughing about it now, but I am very sticky:o I didnt check for a forum...

Well I had to, I have been moaning about my kit for years, my boil pot is only 19L to the brim, and it really gets to me having to mess around with two boils for one brew. So I had to go to the brew shop for some malt, hops and yeast etc. The etc turned out to be a 56L stainless kettle with...

About ten months ago I brewed with my son, his recipe, it was a failure, it was way heavy on grain and to top that we put 1/2 a kg of honey and brown sugar into the boil, with a shovel full of various hops at different times, we boiled it fermented it and bottled it, then it came to tasting. It...

I think I can make a heatstick out of this, a couple of things to consider but its almost ready made, and really low budget to boost my current gas burner, it will get me to the boil much quicker with an extra 3kW then just whip it out...

How do you control / justify what you spend on homebrew. I keep spending too much ! I went the The Home Brew shop this morning for a couple of 11g packets of yeast, I came out with a bill for £90.04 ! So in trouble with her indoors. Got 25kg Maris otter, 3kg Crystal, 100g of cascade, simcoe...

1.1 kg Maris Otter malt 4 litres mash liquor Strike at 72 deg C Mash for 1 hour stand at av 62 degs C Sparge with 3.5 litres at 75 degs C and 15 min stand 40 IBU chinook 12.4%. 8 grams about 25% at boil start then 25% each 15 mins Massive losses, discarding the trub etc. I ended up...

I think most of us check fermentation has stopped, that the SG is stable for several days and then some, accepting and agreeing that three, four weeks is OK. But at what point is it too long ? At what point do we know that the yeast is no longer in suspension or in a state that it either...

I am a new home brewer, now ten brews into the game and determined to be primarily all grain. All the brews have been terrific, soooo very satisfying! My equipment level is very basic and very DIY as I don’t want to spend a fortune on kit. I have kept my wife on side by making it clear that...