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My first 29l Batch was a bit light on alcohol (i think my final gravity was about 1.020. I simply calculated how much sugar to add another 1% alcohol and allowed a second fermentation prior to bottling (tertiary) . It was delicious, especially after about a month. I just bottled a 2nd 29l...

I upped the temp to 21C but the final sg stayed at 1.020 after a 2 weeks. I put my 2nd batch of yeast in and the fg remained the same after 3 days more. Here's what I decided to do: I added 1 tsp sugar to my 4l demijohn (my batch was 25l in a plastic tub and 4 l in a demijohn) and it started...

As far as I know I hit the temps in Revvys recipe. initial mash with 14q water at 158F for 45 mins. Remove a gallon (to my plastic bucket) then extract the remaining sugar from the grain with 3 lots of 1.5gal water at 168F for 15 mins each. 2. take the combined liquors (1gall + 1.5gal +...

OK so my fermentation has definately stopped. It has been at 1.020 for more than a week (in fact since day 2 of the fermentation - 14 days ago).The temperature has been maintained at 19C for the last 2 weeks by my heated jacket) I have another batch of yeast I bought. Should I try to use this...

Yes i mean airlock bubbling (but it does seem to be settling). I think i made a mistake by putting a jacket around my vessel (I have turned it off now!). the temperature has more or less been 75F for the last 2 days and did touch 80F. SG is 1020. hopefully it will continue fermenting . Should...

Just woke up and found that the fermentation in my plastic tub has stopped (and it is starting to settle). Temp is still 24C. any ideas?

Well the wife is away with her friends in Spain for a few days so I had my brew day. It was slightly more complicated than I thought it would be: My pan, which I thought was 34l, actually turned out to be only 22l when I got it out of the attic. This was ok for the mash as my mash consisted...

Just ordered my ingredients and i am VERY VERY excited.

Thanks so much for the reply. i will have a go and report back. steve

Sorry for being a bit blond here. Can you clarify one thing for me. After the mashing of the grain is the liquor seperated from the grain before boiling with the hops or is the grain left in place as the hops are added? As i don't have seperate vessels for mashing and boiling I will carry out...

Hi to all on this forum, I saw Revvy's Leffe Clone recipe about 2 years ago and I saved the link as a favourite so I could come back to it. So here I go. It's the first time i've tried brewing from grains and also i'm not sure about some of the terms used and the timings in this recipe...