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Interested in folk's input. So I've been struggling with what was going to be my last all-extract brew before the great grain experiment, a bavarian wheat beer using a mangrove jacks extract and their M20 yeast. My first attempt I mentioned before that I ended up dumping. I used brew enhancer...

I just started brewing. My first beer, in Jan this year, a London Porter My wife drew the art, she's very talented. My second beer, a Pale ale that I screwed up filtering and was VERY cloudy when I bottled it A pun on 'whiter shade of pale'. Made using a paid ChatGPT4 license. 3rd brew...

Um, really? I had no idea that was a thing. I'm sure I've read on here people talking about cooling their wort over long periods, overnight even? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. Honestly if this is true, then I'm just gonna get an all-in-one. Seems a huge waste of money to get the...

OK, never mind, I think we're completely at cross-purposes here.

I completely understand. I've been having so much fun doing this for the last 5 months with no-one to talk to about it (other than my friends when they came to the party, and only 2 of those have been brewers) so when I decided to post on here, it all came rushing out. Thanks for the welcome.

heating power I think I have covered. How 'rapid' needs be be rapid? I have a fermentation fridge that in my testing cools 5 gallons/23L by 1.6C (about 3F) per hour, so should cool 5L/1G by 8C/15F per hour, 10L/2G by 4C/7.5F per hour.

I think you misunderstood, I was never ever suggesting using that pot, I was asked me what was my currently largest pot :) I know I'll need to get something. So question I have now is, if I go small-batch, either 1 or 2 gallon, can I use my existing 30L fermenter that I've been using for the...

Interesting service but not feasible for me :(

Not being quick to write it off at all :) I'll admit I was liking the idea of mini-mash, mostly because I'd found some mini-mash kits here in the UK that I really liked the look at, but even before your last post, I was seeing that, while no-one was hard committing, the general consensus in the...

Whoah, those are very interesting. Thanks. Time for me is one resource I do have an abundance of :) Right now, I don't have any large pot. my largest saucepan I just measured and it's about 2.7L filled to the brim, that's half a gallon for you folks :). Needing to buy a larger pot was always...

Thanks, but that sort of volume isn't possible for me. You talk about a 5.5 gallon kettle, which is about the same capacity as my fermenter, there is NO way I could get even close to fitting a pot of the same capacity as my fermenter on my stove, not even close, not even half that capacity. I...

My water is 50 and the water + extract + LME is 220 meaning the extract alone, even in RO water, would result in 170ppm when dissolved to the recommended dilution. That's the bit that sorta broke me, why mangrove jacks would have their Ca so high that even in RO water it ends up higher than what...

And thanks. I totally understand why you just skipped to the end :)

I get that, I was just shocked at how high the Ca went with the extract - as the only info I can find online says Ca should be 50-150 but that's pre-mash water, I'm mostly just curious if a 200+ value in the post-mash wort is 'normal', that it's expected that the mashing adds so much Ca, or if...

Hi All. On signing up I got a message asking me to post an intro in the intro forum, but I hope it's OK I sorta combine an intro with a couple of new brewer questions here instead? Apologies in advance, I tend to be overly verbose. A colleague years ago told me I never use 10 words when 1000...