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Does anyone know what these are? Lots around my garden and might try make wine with them but want to know what they are

Guinness have opened there experimental brewery for tours. I think it's Tuesday and Thursday but would double check. The have just released Guinness golden ale( not my favourite but ok) Guinness nitro an iPa served under nitrogen and hop 13 which is very good. If you do go make sure you visit...

Hi , I was planing on making a 80/- tomorrow but I have just realised I don't have and black malt for colour adjustment. I have some chocolate malt but will 1.5% impart a chocolate flavour?

Thanks for the reply but is that a yes for yeast or a yes for bugs [emoji23][emoji23]

So I put some are wort I had out in the garden over night to capture some yeast. This is after 2 day, do you guys recon I have yeast

So I put some left over wort outside over night to try and capture some yeast . This was 2 days ago and this is what I have now. Is this yeast or bugs?

So I have washed the yeast from the fermenter into a demijohn with boiled cooked water and sanitised jars. What do I do now?

So I found a beer keg laying in the rubble of an old pub. I want to make this into my hlt but not sure if it is ok to drill into? Or will it be pressurised ? Does any know

I have never had an infection before but I think I might have one , anyone think it looks like one?

So I Usually add gelatine in my keg but this beer is going straight from the primary to the bottle! Does anyone add gelatine to the primary and what were the the results? I cant see a problem but want to double check,

I used rasberrys from my garden , I'm ok to plate and isolate , would you drain then use yeast cell on the bottom?

So I tried to grow some wild yeast and got this, I know it has some bugs Up top but is that yeast on the bottom?

So do you use a separate pump to recirculate the hlt?

thats great thanks,:D

Hi, i am looking at the possibility of moving to a herms set-up which would use gas to heat the hlt. An ignition switch and solenoid valve would control the hlt temperature therefore the mashtun temp. i have a few questions aroung herms. 1) does the circulating mash return to the...