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you could try sanitising with two different types of sanitiser e.g. one chlorine based and one sulphur dioxide based - some bugs are resistant to certain methods of sterilisation.

Thanks for the advice, Ill get some irish moss for next brew Really Don't Worry, Have A Homebrew? lol Thanks all, Chris

Hi all, Yesterday I made my fourth AG brew, since i cant drink my barley wine i thought I'd make something else I can drink quicker. (8lb pale malt, 1lb flaked maize, 4oz goldings to 5 gallons) It all went well, I cooled the boiler by leaving it in a bath filled with water and ice, in 45 mins it...

When water is filtered the main process (apart from removing chemicals like chlorine (NOT chloride ions), which is added to tap water to kill bugs) is ion exchange, the metal ions that make the water hard (dosent lather easily with soap) are magnesium and calcium mainly. These are exchanged with...

Checked it today, It's fermenting madly and gravity is down to 40 already, so it looks like it'll be ok. Moved it to a cooler cupboard so it stays cool. Thanks for all your help!

Isnt gelatine cow hooves? If so its not vegetarian either

yeah I took some yeast from the wine with a small amount of malt extract, some sugar then added 1/2 pint water in a bottle. It seemed to be very active. I spent about 20 mins agitating the 2 gallons in a sterile bucket to aerate. Didnt add any nutrient, though. I was going to make a starter with...

I never new 90F could kill yeast? I really hope thats all I did wrong! I'll see how it's doing in a day or so then. Thanks Chris

Hi all, Two days ago I had my second go at a grain brew, made 2 gallons of barley wine. It all seemed to go well, got an OG of 1.080 @ 90F, and then pitched a wine yeast that is definately working because I used the same yeast a week earlier for a blackberry wine I made, as I wasn't sure the...

Sterilisation isnt too important - just rinse the whole press down (I made a 2 gallon apple press this year after i found a perfect old vice screw) with tap water, put the apples in a fermenting bin, beat the hell out of them with a lump of wood and press them. Then put the juice back in the...

beer without malted grains and hops...in my humble opinion thats not beer. hops came to england in the 16th century and hopped brews were called beer. Beers using other spices - lavender, sage, nettles, wormwood, there are hundreds - were called ales and for many years hops were shunned for use...

my pressure barrel also does this - i personally just put up with it. some barrels have a float that ensures beer is always drawn off the top - you could order a spare one for a barrel with the same sized tap, or try making one yourself with a bung, some tubing, a ping pong ball and a bit of...

It is called a vitamin C additive because it is vitamin C!

I've been browsing this site a while and most people here seem to use a gas burner and 30qt+ boiler of some kind for all grain brewing. I would like to try all grain properly, but in the UK this equipment is both harder to come by and more expensive, and a homebrewing friend sugested i put...

Plus after 4-5 pints of an 8% brew in an evening many of us would be under the table!

Hi everyone, I just joined these forums, just thought i'd say hello. I've been brewing kit beers for quite a while and recently decided to try some extract beers and got some pleasing results so i thought i'd try and find out a bit more, I've tried making a grain beer but didnt have much luck...