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I'm having problems whilst sparging the grain bed. I vorlauter fine, and the wort begins to clear, so I then open the tap on the boiler and start to sparge the mash. This seems to go fine for about 10 minutes, with the level of hot liquor being about 1/2 - 1 inch above the grain bed. After about...

Now that I'm keeping yeast slurries between batches, I'm starting to become more concerned about sanitisation and yeast preservation. A couple of questions cropped up in my mind. *Does anyone sanitise the tap on their boiler/kettle? It occurred to me that everything up to the boil in...

I made a hop filter a while ago by getting a section of copper pipe, crimping one end in a vice and then drilling a load of holes in it - works like a charm (and saved me about £9!). I'm now wanting to put as S-bend in it (like you get in the commercial ones) so that the hop filter will sit...

OK, so this is a stupid idea, but speaking hypothetically... I have a few friends who are going to Iceland (where beer is really expensive). We were talking about concentrating a beer syrup (fractionally distil off the ethanol, boil off water, re-add ethanol) and taking that with them, then...

when i'm doing consecutive batches in a week, i tend to repitch directly onto the yeast cake. this then ferments like crazy as there is so much yeast at the start of primary fermentation, so it's generally finished fermenting in 3 days or so. is there anything bad about this short primary...