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Hi Folks, I've been brewing AG for a few years now but I still haven't tried any Belgian styles. I'm still very much new to Belgian beers generally. I'm looking for recommendations on which particular style would be good to try for the first time? Recipe ideas are also of course welcome!

Hi Guys, I will be Visiting Canada and the USA for the first time this summer. We will be visiting Ottawa -> Toronto, -> Washington DC -> Yew York. spending 3 or 4 days in each place. I'm looking for some recommendations for each city for places to get a good local drink and perhaps some...

Hi Guys, a couple of weeks ago i did my first brew using pellet hops, well actually a mix of pellet and whole leaf. Up till now I've only used 100% whole leaf without issues. The reason for getting pellet hops is that my homebrew shop didn't have all the varieties I wanted in whole leaf...

I recently moved into a new apartment with my girlfriend and we now have space for a kegerator. I started using Cornelius kegs this year but until now I have not been able to easily serve the beer, especially not without using about 8 metres of 3/16 OD line to reduce the needed pressure. I...

Hi Guys, I have a porter which I brewed a few months ago sitting in a cornelius keg. We recently moved and i've had no choice but to keep it at room temperature for about a month (about 25 degrees Celsius (77F)). It's been stored pressurised but not on gas supply. It should be at...

Hi Folks, Soon I hope to build a kegerator with a beer tower on top. I am thinking of getting this from eBay. I notice that it comes with 5' hose for each tap. The thing is, I would think that the hose is the very flexible clear hose that I see you US guys using all the time. I would want...

I've just created my first recipe using beer smith, I have previously used Brewmate but was drawn to Beersmith's nicer interface, tools, inventory etc.. My recipe is a first for me on quite a few levels, It will be the first time I use any non-british hops, the first time I use a beersmith...

I just got my first 2L conical flask in the post yesterday. the thing is much bigger than I had expected! I was counting on using a bored rubber bung which I already use with my fermenter barrel but the neck of the flask is far too wide for it (the opening is 45mm in diameter) I have found a...

Hi Folks, I've been using my king keg for a few years now in the same configuration as I bought it. It came with the pin valve for using 8g disposable cartridges. Now i'm brewing more often I thought i'd switch to a larger Co2 source. I had orriginally though about the hambleton bard...

Hi Folks. I las brewed about 9 months ago. I took a break as I moved country and for most of the time, have been unemployed so havent really had the spare cash to brew. I'm now preparing for my first brew of the year and have taken my ingredients out of storage. For most of the time the...

Hi all, On sunday we brewed our new smoked porter recipe Recipe Here./. We used Danstar nottingham yeast, we prepared a starter about 18 hours before pitiching to our wort. The yeast was pitched to the wort and started fermenting quite quickly. A day into fermentation and it's bubbling...

Hey Folks. I'm planning a new recipe and had to contact a maltster to get some data which they haven't published about one of their malts. They have provided me with the following information. What i'm struggling to figure out is the extract potential of the grain. I guess i want to be...

Hi Folks. A friend and I have just completed our second AG brew and we’d like a little help/feedback on how it’s gone. Our first AG brew was a recipe we followed from here and went very well (except for a dead yeast issue to begin with), this second brew was our own recipe which we’ve put...

Hi All, I've been watching the forums here for a while and have recently made the transition from kits to AG brewing via extract brewing. I've already found this place to be a fantastic wealth of knowledge and am looking forward to being an active member of such a welcoming community...