Recent content by mackenziemicro

Finished... used a bottom freezer so taps are at perfect height.. 2 draft taps and a third keg on the beer engine... balancing the temp for the real ales on beer engine is a pain but workable... logo and tap titles are printed magnets ran a competition on a freelance website to design the...

It will probably probably end up being the best beer I've made lol

C'mon I could even read wheat versus amber!! So googled and found 65% wheat it's a coopers 1.5kg Un hopped extract... if your correct and it's 35% wheat then I'm looking at 8 %?

Plan to lager it for a bit ... do you think it clear ..by my calculations if the extract is 65% wheat it would be 15% wheat in the grain bill? Plan to serve it via my beer engine so expecting a very full bodied Ale with a head that will never die!!

Oh I should have said I ended up doing all grain wheat today... just adjusted the batch size to remove the extract...

So after a wee break from brewing as moved apartments.... I decided to brew a partial mash Scottish Ale 26 liters planned grain bill as below but brew night (Wed evening) was a nightmare.. drill failed so had to mill grains by hand then both my home made controllers failed so had to heath...

Thanks for all the tips... I've set one keg to force carb and one with priming sugar, will taste test both through my beer engine and on draft see if there is any off flavours... Seems there are lots of varying opinions on this!! Hopefully I won't die!!

It was more of an aroma hard to describe...which may have been the gas hanging about in the glass... Like I said after about 20-30 seconds the water tasted normal... There was no residue in the glass so the gas must be clean... I have a ESB ready to keg I may just give it a whirl... My only...

Looking for a kind soul to help me test something... I brew in the tropics let's say that home brewing is semi legal but frowned upon... Hence my supplies come from far away and getting CO2 refills is hard... I found a place that does fire extinguishers and got it filled for about 3 USD!! 5...

Just finished it today!! Not the most elegant but functional... Beer engine with demand valve and check valve!!

I brew in a condo no outdoor space, it's rented so limited to the existing gas stove a 5g boil just wouldn't work so I split into two kettles and combine into the fermenter... Don't know the power but the bigger ring can get a good rolling boil and the second kettle I place over the second and...

My epiphany was when I poured away a commercial beer and opened a home-brew... No longer a beginner but it will take a couple of lifetimes to become an expert... This hobby, this obsession....if the learning ever stopped I would stop brewing!

Hi, I've been brewing in the "Tropics" Asia Pacific region for about 18 months, cant afford a spare fridge with a controller so Ive found the best way to control Ferm temperature is to use the Polystyrene cool boxes with bottles of Frozen water mixed with a little dishwashing detergent. You can...

So far Ive only been bottling and I must say some of my beers are great out of the bottle but gee wiz doesn't the bottling process just suck??? I live in the far east and all things homebrew are considerably harder to do here than back home (GB) I love Real Ale so decided to blow some of my end...