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I cant physically get any higher bottle conditioning temps that 66. On average most days, beer sits around 62-64. Its been conditioning for 3 weeks now, but how much more time over a month would you add to conditioning when its 5-7 degrees lower than 70?

It annoys me as much as it does you about AA. My local brew-shop is lazy. It seems they buy hops in bulk and repackage and vacuum. The labeling is atrociously dis-informative, the only reason I still purchase from there is i can visit instead of pay shipping costs

according to my brew shop fuggles - 3.5%-6.5% goldings 4-8% 2011 harvest. And most likely Windsor, again, I am quite limited on ingredients unfortunately.

And yes, this is an english pale ale! hopefully ;) and you probably didn't read it right, my last IBU count was 25ish, the predicted IBUs according to brewersfriend for this batch was in the early twenties.

This is a loosely based clone with slightly differing ingredients, mainly because of their availability.

Here is my second brew citizens :) This is far more important that the last, because I haven't paid for a dime, 50-60 people will be tasting it and I'm 'expected' to make this generic pale ale clone excellent. I welcome all your criticisms ;) 5.5gal Batch 2.3gal boil volume - 60 mins...

You raise some good points! I guess ill be loosing twice the amount of wort to evaporation because its two kettles, I might well end up loosing the potential volume of the small kettle alone! These are definitely good points to think about.

Excellent! Do you think the removal of the steeping grains from the mail boil change the time and/or quantity of my hop additions or when the hot break will happen?

So I really would like to utilize my small(er) 1.5 gal kettle for my second brew, I didn't for my first, and I'm not really sure if this method will exactly work :/ but here goes This is a 5.5 gal extract batch, on my first brew I only produced around 2.2 gal of wort and the rest was top up...

Hello folks. As you all have much more experience than I in tasting wide varieties of beer, I seek your advice on a rough recipe. Basically along with a few others I'm going to be holding a photographic exhibition and we decided HELL, why not add some character to the event and brew a beer...

These are all fine tips! I live in Northampton, but there is also a Northampton in Massachusetts. Aspiration my friend, aspiration. The main reason was I couldn't set my country when joining this forum. ;)

Well, we shall see the outcome when the beer has carbed up. Hopefully there will be no hints of swimming pool!

are you suggesting that the product I use shouldn't really be used as a sanitizer? I'm a little concerned now

Yeah I live in England and there is an equivalent almost identical to star san. However its not a liquid, it actually resembles silica gel, its dry powder but its bead-like. Chemipro Oxi. About 4 grams per Litre / 1/2 lq. oz per gal. This is good news, its going to make one pot go a long way!

..........No, not the drink ;) I bottled today, and filling my bottling bucket aaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way with water / sanitizing solution got me thinking. I have an old gardening fine mist spritzer spray lying around. I use a no rinse sanitizer with a 2-3 minute contact time. Instead of...

I left my beer cold crashing for 2 days...and brought it back in to rest where I'll be bottling it and warm up to room temp. All was set for bottling day...but the delivery for the rest of my bottles was delayed and its now been sitting back at room temp for 2 days. Any issues caused by delaying...

Why did you shake them? Are you using carb drops or batch priming?

This. I know you wern't planning to anyway, but I'd like to reiterate to measure your sugar by weight rather than volume. Bring about a pint to the boil and add, only boil for 2-3 mins, 10 is not necessary. And you haven't stated how carbonated you want it (measured in volumes of C02)...

Nope. The same results after taking three samples all on different days. There is some leftovers sitting on top. I mean, it could well be a possibility that as the thief moves under the substances on top they are drawn into it I suppose.

By no means a fridge, but the garage gets colder than outside. I estimate a temp of around 44. But I don't know if that's cold enough, and or if two full days cold crashing is long enough to have reasonable effect.