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Hi there, I currently work for a brewery where I have my 100L kit set up. However, I’m leaving that job this September and I’m looking to rehouse my kit at home in my cellar. I’m UK based, so apologies if you’re from elsewhere but hopefully you can still help me out... I’ve become aware that...

Hi folks, I've recently taken over as brewer in a small microbrewery in the U.K. I've discovered that the wooden cladded copper has incorrect markings on the side so I'm missing gravities, etc, as I'm using the incorrect liquor amount. I have no way of measuring the correct volume. I tried...

I need to make a yeast starter today to pitch into a 90L brew on Tuesday. I'm using WLP005 which, according to the packet, was made on 11th May 2016. Four packets have been in the fridge since then. According to Brewer's Friend, the yeast is only at 36% viability, meaning I'd need a 25L...

I tried brewing today with my newly acquired EB5 type 2.4kW brew kettle hearing element. Half way through boiling my water, there was a loud bang and sparks. It turns out that water was coming through the plug socket. Any ideas what I can do (other than get a replacement)?

I am currently setting up a brewery in the UK. At the moment, I'm cuckoo brewing of sorts on their pilot kit. It only does 18 gallons, so I'm packing around 60-80L per batch in bottles. I work one day a week (in theory!) at the brewery so I'm trying to brew as much as possible in order to...

I've racked a 70L of pale rye into a cask and the 2/3 is going to be bottled. It's currently in a second 9G ferkin. My intention was to bottle next week or the week after but I'm a little bit worried about the air in the remaining 1/3. The head brewer (where I make all this stuff on their...

I've managed to negotiate a deal with a local brewery to regularly use their 18 gallon pilot brewery in order to develop my own brewery and brand. However, they haven't used it much and getting info about the finer details of the kit is proving difficult. I know the HLT and copper hold 20G of...

I wonder if you can help me? I've tried both priming bottles by the batch and individually with dextrose. When batch priming, I've done all the calculations via Brewer's Friend, etc. I've made sure my beer is the correct temperature when calculating and the sugar solution is mixed in...

I brewed a Smoked Porter and came in slightly over gravity (I was shooting for 1.056 and hit 1.061). I'd like the beer to be 5% (Beersmith suggests I'll reach 6.1% using WLP005). My batch size is 24.6 liters (6.5 US gallons). Should I add water to the fermentor or when I bottle the beer...

I have a batch priming issue... Having read up on batch priming, and following instructions, my batch primed beers never seem as carbonated as when I add 2.5g of sugar to each 330ml bottle. Although I'm getting some fizz from batch priming, it's nowhere near the same as bottle by bottle, and...

Am I missing something? I've recently upgraded my system from doing BIAB to batch sparging using a 48L cool box. On all three occasions that I've used this method, my OG has been around 10 points lower than I've anticipated. I've ensured all my water measurements are correct, temperatures...

Has anyone ha any experience with this yeast? Made a 1L starter (which smelled pretty funky) using a stir plate and at the right temperature, but am guessing this is the yeast!) and having pitched it Friday evening there is still NO action happening in the FV this morning. Is this a slow...

I made a yeast starter for a Belgium Blonde using White Labs WLP500 (Monastery Ale Yeast). It had 48 hours to start fermenting. When I opened it up to pitch into the fermentor, it smelled funky as!!! A kind of weird hybrid of cider with slightly sour/boarding on vinegar cover tones. Is this...

Hi there, I'm wondering anyone can help me. I brewed this last night (my own recipe): http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/796174/stout-to-the-lord-batch-no002 After the mash, I collected around 9L of wort of 1.096. My batch sparge collected around 17L of 1.072. I also ran 1 litre...

Just under two weeks ago, I batch primed an IPA for the first time (I normally prime each bottle with half a teaspoon of dextrose) using 137g of dextrose in 100ml of boiled and cool water (this went into 5.5 gallons of beer). I poured it carefully into the secondary and gave it a gentle but...

I built a fermentation temp controller a while ago and decided that I needed to build another so I can have two beers on the go at once. Being the clever sod I am, I decided to buy a single phase 2 gang plug socket, not realising that in an ideal world, I need two single plug sockets. I tried...

I think I may have made a bit of a fail with my latest STC1000. I purchased a double plug socket, which turns out to be single pole, however, I cut the hole in the box now. Is there any way I can wire this up to heat and cool using this? Am I able to wire this up just to heat even?

So I'm trying to make a pale ale that is around 4.7% ABV but unfortunately (or fortunately) my mash was far more efficient than usual meaning my OG wasn't 1.040 but was 1.059. I've read a bit about blending water post fermentation in order to dilute a strong beer and get more from a batch like...

I am looking to upgrade my set up, but I have certain limitations. I live in a terraced house in the UK, so room is quite limited. Also, the weather is also, well, British, so I need to brew indoors. At the moment, I am doing BIAB over two gas rings on my cooker in a 32L pot, which...

I wonder if anyone can help me? Generally, the beers I make using dried yeast (usually Safale S04 or US05) turnout much better than the ones where I use a liquid yeast strain. I use a yeast starter for all the beers I make using liquid least; I use a stir plate to keep it oxygenated, I used...