Recent content by MaltyWaters

Hi everyone, hope you're all brewing away during lock down. I'm signed up for the IBD general certificate in brewing and would just like some advice/tips from previous participants if you're out there! Is the syllabus alone sufficient to earn a distinction in the exam? Are there any areas...

I certainly will, thank you for being so encouraging the community here really keeps my brewing spark alive its great.

Sorry it's a phrase used in Ireland to describe something of low/average quality, in this case a supermarket honey. Thank you for the feedback, also glad your wife still gets to enjoy mead with you!

Hey everyone, After some reading I'm really excited to try out making mead. I just have a few questions for you all: Can I make a passable mead with bog-standard honey? Is there a particular grade of honey I should splash out on? If I am to infuse my mead with fruit does it matter if I do...

It was somebody's job to sit down and illustrate this. Magnificent.

This is all great advice thank you, the harvest more DME less mantra will help my wallet from burning a hole in my pocket. I also now know the pH of urine, every day is a learning day.

The size is about 30ml (1oz) but I will be making a starter from it first for every batch if that helps.

If I crop my yeast does it really matter what kind of (sanitised) container I put it in? I've been looking around on amazon and urine sample jars seem to be the most affordable and come with labels attached. Hilariously this particular product also comes with one of those 'she-wee' devices so I...

Thanks for the reply, really appreciate it.

Hey all, HBT newbie here so apologies if I'm posting in the wrong board. Ive began studying brewing recently and I keep running into nitrogen and how it's important for yeast to grow. Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I think I know already during proteolysis proteins break down into...