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About 7%. Worth it?

Anyone got any thoughts on the honey? Sorry to spam, but there's not long left!

Hahaha, sorry! Damn metric system... It's basically 5oz of honey in 1gal, if that helps. The boil has only just begun, so I've still got a while to decide on the honey. Any other thoughts?

Currently mashing in, so sadly I'm stuck with the crystal. Still open to suggestions regarding the honey though. What do I gain/lose buy using/not using it? Also, answers to the yeast question would be much appreciated! If I hydrated it first, could I then store half of it in an airtight...

Anyone? About to brew this bad boy!

I'm by NO means an expert, but AFAIK by that point the most "volatile" stages of fermentation will be complete so you shouldn't have any issues with the extra airspace... But as I said, I'm not too sure, you might want to wait for someone more experienced to reply!

Yeah I was going to add it to the last 5 minutes of the boil, but BrewMate will only let me enter it as a fermentable. So what about 180g of Crystal (bringing it down to just below 10% of the grain bill) and 120g honey? Edit: also, I want to do a "nano-brew", about 5 litres/1 gallon, but will a...

Hmm, good point. Do you think it would work in this recipe?

Hoping to brew this later today... Apologies in advance for the metric units, I was never able to get my head around Imperial, and have never needed to! New Recipe Imperial IPA Recipe Specs ---------------- Batch Size (L): 5.0 Total Grain (kg): 1.850 Total Hops...

Thanks everyone! After thinking about it, I'm going with Brewsday's idea of washing and repitching. Until I have enough mason jars and time to work out a proper yeast washing regime, this seems like a good halfway house. I'll let you all know how it goes!

Hi there. Just about to start the boil on my new single-hop Amarillo amber ale. I want to re-use the yeast cake from my brown ale, so I racked it to secondary while heating up my strike water. Will the yeast cake be ok after sitting around for 2 hours? It's a plastic fermenting bucket...

I'm hoping to make a sour porter next week. Here's my plan, will this work? I'm going to brew a 10l (2.5gal) batch, and once it's cooled, transfer 8-9l into the main vessel, and then pitch a basic dry yeast. With the other 1-2 litres, I'm going to transfer it to a separate container and pitch...

Has anyone had much experience brewing very small batches of beer? I'm talking 5l, which is about 1 gallon. The last two beers I've brewed have been this size batch, and I've run into a few problems, mainly with boil-off volume and losing wort to trub. I just pitched the yeast for a session 5%...

Ah, probably should have realised that... If I squeeze the bag should I factor in a lower estimate? 1l seems a lot.

Thanks for all the advice, guys! Based on what you said, this morning I ran a test boil of 5l of water, and ended up with only 2.1l left!! Taking this into account, I'm formulating my next recipe, a straight-forward American Pale/IPA. This is the plan so far... 1kg Maris Otter Pale 200g Crystal...

Thanks for all your help! Will definitely do this, but can you tell me how exactly to do that? Say I boil 10 litres and end up with 7 left, does that mean I will lose 3 litres every time, or 30%? Another potentially stupid question... how do I calculate the pre-boil volume? Is that just the...

That was my first thought too, but I started with 6.8l of strike water, which I assumed would be enough? Do you think maybe I just left too much water in the grain bag? I didn't want to squeeze it too much to avoid extracting tannin, but is that a misnomer?

Hey there. So following the many good tutorials on BIAB, I decided to give it a go using my own recipe for a black RyePA. I'm afraid the grain measurements are in kg, but I've done my best to convert them for the benefit of US forummers... Here's the log I kept on BrewMate: (note it's a...

Has anyone used BrewMate? Should definitely be added to the list! http://www.brewmate.net/

Thanks, and would that be enough space for big beers? Nothing crazy, but I like the idea of brewing an Imperial Stout one of these days. Also, would you guys recommend batch or fly sparging if I were to use that sort of container?