Recent content by Badger68

It doesn't usually last very long either way. But will report on results in a few weeks. Thanks for the help

Thankyou thats good to know. Actually I splitt the batch and used two different yeasts. 1 seemed ok and the other went mental and blew out within a day added more yeast to see whether it restarted.

Hi guys. I've been out of the game a few months building my little brewery and man cave but last weekend I decided to do a cupboard clean out ready to start anew. This may cause you to giggle but made a stupid mistake. Now the brew was a real mishmash so won't go into details. But I had some dry...

Hi guys Im about to make a Christmas beer and im planning on using cloves, nutmeg, orange and cinnamon but to be honest I have no idea on how much to use and when. Was thinking on adding the spices about 5 days into the fermentation. I will fermenting around the 25l mark (that's metric for all...

Thankyou, Its what I suspected. I'll leave it be for a bit longer.

Ive got a belguim style stout thingy fermenting just now ( not sure what it is tbh as I got a bit carried away with the special grains and the treacle and the candy sugar :)) its about finished bubbling and I was wondering about racking it on for a bit longer. Is it worth it ? Im worried about...

Well the stout was bottled a week ago after being in the primary for 3 weeks at around the 20 degrees c mark. Squeezed out 63x330ml so happy with that. I ended up adding 1.5kg of muntons dark extract just to drag up the gravity because of the limited grain bill on a 20l braumeister unit...

Thanks for the replies fellas. as recommended I was planning on using zest orange or Satsuma and coco nibs if I can get them or just dark coco powder. The sugar was only to activate the yeast so ill change to white sugar. The hardest thing is the waiting :)

Hi fellas. Im pretty new to the brewing scene (Sweden) and i'm just about to brew my 4th. I'm aiming for a chocolate orange stout. Its scary how quick you get ideas and start to make things complicated. Ive done lots of reading about orange and chocolate additions and intend to rack to a...