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Hi all, I've gelatined to fine my latest batch of beer and am trying to wash the yeast. I'm watching these layers and after 45 minutes I can see what looks like 5 layers. I'm assuming layers 4 and 5 are to go, but should i be keeping 1-3? There isn't much difference between 1 and 2...

Prima Donna Hops, Kent, UK I started picking a few cones off my bines, but the more I picked, the more I realised they might be a little early. Rubbed between my palms they fall to bits and leave a lot of lupulin on my hands. A video below of me crushing some in my hand. However, I suspect I...

Hi all, My 1st year (left and right) and 3rd year (middle) dwarf hop (First Gold) plants. These started off great at the start of the year, but 6 weeks ago there were a ton of aphids on them. I started spraying them with dishsoap and water which killed the bugs, but i think this might have...

Hi all, I'm interested in carrying a corny into work in the morning. My commute involves a 5 minute walk, a train ride and a 10 minute walk. Carrying a corny loose would be somewhat tricky, but I'm wondering if anyone has had success lugging one around using some sort of scuba-tank...

Hi all, Got some Perle and Cascade to get rid of, as well as some Caramunich 1 I bought by mistake so was thinking of knocking up the below Pale Ale recipe. Any thoughts/adjustments? Does this sound drinkable? Grain: Pale Ale - 5kg (10lbs) Caramunich 1 - 500g (1lb) Hops: Perle - 20g...

So.. Id been having problems with oxidation when kegging my beers. I had previously been bottling 3 of the 19 litres and then putting the rest into the keg. I had been careful to purge headspace in the keg several times with CO2. The primed bottles turned out fine, but the force carbed keg beer...

Got an email from my favourite burger chain about the arrival of SN's Hophunter, which promises additions of "Sierra Nevada's custom-process hop oils". From looking on SN's website and a couple of other news articles, it looks like they have their own kit to distill these hops pre-brewery...

So.. this one's about the beers you can never create again. A place to honour those beers that went so wrong, but persistence to rescue/finish/rdwhahb/not meddle with your beer/mop up led to the best beer ever. One that you won't be able to recreate. So - those beers that came back from the...

I got the final bits for my kegs this Xmas and will be kegging my disastrous (another story) New Years Day IPA brew next weekend. I'm wondering about conditioning and shelf life. 1) I understand beer in kegs keeps better. Some on here say they have kept kegs at room temp for 6 months+ before...

Inspired by ArizonaGoalies thread, I have also realised that my gut is getting out of control. I don't want to give up my daily beer though so was wondering if anyone had good recipes for beers hitting 2-3% without losing too much taste?

I'm wondering what the consensus is about all-in-one brew systems like the Grainfather and the Braumeister. Is this the direction home brewing is going to go or will this always be fairly niche? Will everyone be using these in a few years or do you plan to keep separates? I for one would...

I always wonder what "other" benefits people get from brewing other than the obvious - drinking beer. For me, it's threefold: a) Working long hours, but generally having weekends free, I like the fact that I always have a beer-related activitity to look forward to. I generally brew...

Hi all, I've just received a 40 ltr 2.6kw buffalo water boiler and did a test boil with it today using 15 litres of water. All went well and I got a good rolling boil within 30 mins. However, when I unplugged it as I switched it off, I noticed that the live and neutral pins of the plug were...

I've got a quick one about priming sugar for small batches. I am using 25g brewers sugar (glucose) in about 200ml of water, which I understand needs boiling for 15 mins to sterilise it. My question is this - is it normal for this to go yellow and smell a little caramel-like? I'm worried that as...

Hi all, I'm new to the whole brewing thing and got a Brooklyn Brew Shop kit for xmas. I brewed that up and it tasted pretty good. I've tried to emulate the Everyday (US) IPA in a UK 1 gallon batch and it couldnt taste further from the BBS kit. I was bottling it last night and had a glassful -...