Recent content by bobtheUKbrewer2

lizard - great idea thanks - I can trap the string between lid and pan

Snuffy - a muslin pouch weighed down might work on some fishing line to jiggle it ?

A stainless steel "saucepan" with a lid - used this set up 20 years plus...

thanks Bongo - I do not cold crash as I do not have the necessary equipment. These particles are totally stationary with no sign of them dropping at all.

Hello all - I dry hop with loose T90 hop pellets for the last 2 days of fermentation. But I am left with very fine hop particles in the top inch of the beer. They are so fine that a hop spider would not help. So I strain through muslin as I bottle. Any ideas, or is it back to leaf hops? Thanks.

don't understand what you are saying, sorry

I take a daily allupurinol tablet for gout, and (touching wood) I have not had an attack for 40 years.

in the UK most pubs are struggling and cannot empty a cask in 3 days - so they serve it until cask is empty - at that stage it is stale and possibly vinegary - so customers abandon ship in favour of supermarket beer at UKP 1.70 for 500 ml bottle - pubs close and are often converted to...

Has anyone plunged a glowing splint into the area above the fermenting wort?

push a bit of kitchen paper into a small glass, add a teaspoon of wort - wait 5.389 seconds, lift out paper and discard, add liquid to refractometer glass, hold refractometer pointing W by WSW any time between 0900 and 1400 at an inclination of approx 80 degrees and get three people to take the...

ferment 5 to 8 days then bottle with miniscule priming sugar, start drinking it 10 days later..........

10.5 lb crushed PM, 0.75 lb torrified wheat plus .75 lb of very fine crush PM in 32 litres water ending up with 22 litres of wort.

update for you good folks - 2 pics - the dark spots are actually the beer under the yeast.

Mashdar - I store it at 6 deg C in my second fridge - and hydrate in bottled water with brewing sugar, vit C and nutrient....

hotbeer - I break nearly all the rules anyway - the smell alone "lovely" gives me optimism - the original yeast was close to its use before date - and when it seemed to be doing nothing after 48 hours I decided to add an other use that was well within date.