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Hey guys, I'm from London but am in New York for a week from tonight until 1st. Any suggestions from your combined fountain of knowledge of beers to seek out/places to go/specific events happening this coming week? Thank you!!

Hey guys, Just looking for someone to confirm my understanding here. I keg, but I don't yet have a kegerator so my kegs just sit in the garage. At the moment the temperature is typically swinging from 4C to 12C between day and night. I tend to 'set and forget' and my kegs tend to last me...

Hi guys, I buy my base grain pre-crushed in 25kg sacks. I don't brew that often so a sack typically lasts me a number of months (I know this might not be ideal for freshness, but this is besides the point...) Anyway, I am trying to dial in all the aspects of my system so I can get more...

Hey guys, Can you critique my porter please - I've never done one before and the recipe I've come up with doesn't closely resemble any of the examples I've seen, think it'll work? Shot in the Dark Mash temperature 66 C Mash time 1 hours Boil length 60 minutes Grain 5.378 kg...

How can my brew be stuck at 1.040?! I did the popular Rochforte 8 clone I found on this site. I overshot on the OG, it came in at 86. The WLP540 took off like a rocket (decanted 3.5 litre starter into 5.4 gallons of wort) and brought it down to 1.040 in less than a week. Since then it...

Just brewing up a hefe with WLP380. I've crash chilled the starter overnight and there's a nice band of yeast at the bottom. However, the liquid on top is still cloudy...like a hefe. I would normally decant this, however, given that the final product of this style of beer is supposed to...

The gas-in posts on my cornies have roughly 5cm dip tubes into the keg. I fill my kegs up to just below the bottom of these so I don't get beer sucked back into the lines. Is there any reason why I can't saw these dip tubes off flush with the post so I can fit an extra litre or two of beer in...

Hey guys, I’m planning a brew for the weekend that needs a massive hop aroma but not many IBUs (probably 30-35ish). I’ve decided this seems like a good chance to try out hop bursting, so I’ll get all IBUs from additions from 20-0 minutes. Question is, I know from experience of making DME...

Hey guys, I have a quick question...which I could probably answer myself given a few months of split batch experimentation etc, but I’m hopefully somebody here will know the answer straight off to save me the time! Last year I made my own recipe for an IPA, which was roughly as follows...

I have an old mini fridge so I'm starting to formulate my kegerator plans... The fridge is too small (fits one, nearly two, cornies at the moment), so I'm looking at collars. My question is...is there any reason why I can't push the fridge on to it's back and build the collar upwards as a...

You can make a hearty cup of tea in a few minutes by pouring boiling water on a teabag and stirring it around with a teaspoon. However, if you pour the water into the cup first, gently lower in the teabag and leave it undisturbed for 5 minutes, the water will still be completely transparent and...

Hey guys, I haven't made an IPA yet, and after tasting Badger First Gold I decided I really want to experiment with first gold hops, so I invented the recipe below. I went for partial-mash on this one to save a bit of time and because my mash tun was reaching it's limits last time I made a...

Hey guys, I don't know if it's bad form to post things like this (please tell me if so!), but for those of you in the UK, Slurp do a reasonable range of specialist beers and they've got a good Groupon offer on today, thought I would point it out in case anybody is looking to stock up for...

Firstly...I MADE BEER!!!!!!!! This was my 5th-ish all grain batch, and while the others have had varying levels of success, this is the first batch which has really blown me away with it's deliciousness. This hobby is clearly here to stay! Anyway, I kind of invented the recipe, and now I'm...

Hey guys, I'm planning my next brew and am aiming for a hefty winter-warmer recipe which was originally based on a Hobgoblin recipe. I'm planning on the following: Pale 2 row 89% Crystal 55L (dark) 5% Cara-pils Dextrine Malt 4% Chocolate Malt (dark) 3% I am looking for around...

Hi all, I am just starting to reach the stage in my brewing career of using yeast starters/washing/re-using etc. There are lots of threads about pitching the correct amount of yeast without over or under-pitching. Most of these threads rather sensibly refer to the yeast cell count as the key...

Hey guys, I have been persuaded to get a turbo cider on the brew to give me something to feast on, in aid of prolonging the life of my beers so they get a better chance of reaching maturity! After reading a few posts I randomly decided on the following recipe: 24l supermarket apple...

A couple of months ago I arranged a brew-off with a bunch of mates and it's happening this Saturday night. Four of us have brewed our finest beers and are getting together with a few of happily volunteering mates to taste them all and judge who's is best! Anyway, I just thought I would...

Dear fellow brewers, Having brewed kits for a few years and then had a couple of years away from brewing, I have recently made a come back and made my first two all grain beers. The help and support I got from this forum was extremely useful, and while the first batch is not ready for tasting...

Hi guys, I just attempted my second all grain brew, was brilliant fun! I did the first one blind without any readings or measurements, so this time I made an effort to track what I was doing. I used a Spitfire recipe which is available here...