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hello all, So first things first.. I’m a brand new and addicted home brewer. My friends now look to me as the ‘beer geek’ but im far from it. Tonight me and my pal went to the local craft brew pub. I’m from london so as you probably know, every other building is a pub. This particular pub only...

Im only on my third brew so im not exactly one to give expert advice but i’ve left both batches in the primary for 3 weeks. I dont plan on ever having a batch in for shorter but I will certainly be leaving some in for longer (higher gravity, stouts, porters etc.) Both my fermentations looked...

Thanks! After some more digging around I found that a lot of people say that cocoa nibs are fine to put in either the primary or secondary. However, almost all bar a few have said that when adding fruit to make sure its in the secondary. I got the idea that adding to the primary will activate...

I can second these recomendations, decent places :D

Hi, im from london and would be happy to point you in the right direction. There are tons of great craft brew pubs. However, wether they are local brews is a different story. They tend to sell a wide selection of fantastic british beers though. You will stumble across a few local products...

Hi guys, Im only on my third ever brew, plan on brewing it in the next week and its going to be my first all grain brew. I’m a big fan of stouts, especially chocolate stouts, and i found a lovely looking chocolate stout recipe that I really want to give a go. Now, I’ve a searched the forums...

How many 6.5G fermenters can you fit in there? Ive gone off buying the smaller fridge as im going to want at least 2 fermenters going at once

Check it out, looks great. It connects to any device with bluetooth so You just sanitize it and pop it in your fermenter then you can take a gravity/ temp reading anytime you want from your phone. Haha you’re probably right. Im probably nust getting a bit excited, always been one for new shiny...

Just noticed this product online whilst browsing some HB stuff. They look amazing! thinking about buying one.

Yep, in hindsight i should have just ordered a large batch of good ale yeast that can be used with many different types like Nottingham or us-05. I'm ordering a stir plate and flask and possibly a tilt hydrometer in the next week or so, so I'll chuck in a load of priming sugar and yeast with...

Sound great! I’d love to have that option. Atm i have all the ingridents for a nice extract amber ale and a free fermenter. I was going to quickly brew it up tonight as I’d completely forgot i even had the ingredients. However, i dont have any spare yeast lying about! So annoying that i can’t...

Will have a look at those links. Thanks again!

On beersmith you can input an extract recipe and covert it to all grain. If you don’t have BS id be happy to do it for you if you link me the extract recipe with the good reviews. The BS coversion would produce an all grain version that produces a similar end product, id asume. Someone correct...

Again, thanks for the info! Appreciate it. Yeah the hops were called whitebread goldings and kent goldings, confusing! Is there a spreadsheet of some sort where I can see hops different names or hop equivalents? I just don't want to be bugging the guys on here every time I can't find a certain...

Wow thank you for the very detailed response. That has helped me a lot! I'm not so concerned about price, I'm happy to pay more for better/fresher ingredients, i just don't want to pay multiple delivery costs getting ingredients from different shops. At the end of the day, I'm on a quest to be...

It’s a actually saying its to be an irish red! Your recipe sounds great though, ill be sure to give it a go. With the difference in srm/ebc to the malt the recipes are calling for and what i can actually get here in the UK, will it be a problem? Im guessing it’ll throw my beersmith off a bit...

The last recipe i was going to use called for some crystal malts with a certain L number that I couldn’t find anywhere! Also they had a hop that I couldn’t find anywhere but there was a hop with a similar name. i’ll ty find the recipe so I can recite it to you guys

Recipe is as follows: 7.5 lbs pale malt (2 row) US. (Dont know what this is) 13 oz brown malt (65 srm). (The brown malts im finding are a higher srm) 8.8oz of chocolate malt (350 srm) 2 oz fuggles (recipe calls for hops but i want to use pellets, do i use the same amount of pellets?) 1tsp of...

Also, the second malt calls for a brown malt (65 srm) however, the brown malt that is sold on the malt miller is 140-160 ebc meaning that its 71 - 81 rsm. Would that greatly affect the bear or? its all very confusing :eek:

Thanks, I did briefly scan through this site but there were soem malts i couldn't find. however, i think they are just called different names. This is probably going to be a really stupid question but the first malt o my list says 'pale malt 2 row US' However theres nothing with that name and...