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Hi all, As a little project I have been working on brewing GF beer for the last year. I am now finally starting to get some beer that I think tastes reasonably nice - although not necessarily like traditional beer archetypes. To hone these recipes I am now looking for some people to help...

Sorry I should have been more specific, I am using all GF non-malted grains and relying on artificial enzymes! In general the GF home brewing scene uses malted GF grains or syrups, I am in somewhat uncharted territory. Its only recently after all that they have made the first few steps towards...

Hi thanks for the informative reply, and the blog was very interesting, did you consider making solutions of the minerals in water and then adding them to the beer to avoid oxidation? One thing that seems apparent though is that small additions post boil can have a big effect, and that could...

Hi, So I am messing around with some ideas and water calculations but need a bit more info about why the different components of the water effect the flavour. If I start with distilled water say, I can choose to add sulfate, calcium, chloride etc at any point right up to bottling! For...

I just had a similar problem but even worse. Ended up with gravity of about 1.012 using millet and buckwheat malt as my main. I didn't control the drying of the malt very accurately though so guess I might have killed of any diatastic power they had, I tried to compensate by adding shed loads of...

I talked to the Maltsters’ Association of Great Britain and got a very informative response. They said that it is perfectly safe using modern methods termed 'pneumatic', that is to keep the grain cool and aerated to inhibit mold growth whilst keeping the air humid to allow germination by...

Hi, I am currently malting corn, millet and buckwheat as an experiment. It is all going fine but I have done some research and found that the maltsters have to be vigilent about fusarium. Now a quick search has shown that all of these are susceptable to fusarium, so how do I know my drink...

So, say I wanted to brew a lot of beer and store it in the following conditions. in a third container (ie the tub I would normally bottle from) in the dark given that the beer I would bottle is exactly the same as the beer in the tub ie there is no rubbish at the bottom, shouldn't this keep...

ah thanks for the info and links guys! I might try some google translate as my dutch isnt the best :s I think I will try and reduce the hops and put in some gruit for my first go so at least I can rely on a bit of a shelf life, I think I might try some pine needles as well from the christmas...

So I have just finished my second all grain brew, and being a bit of a nerd I liked the idea of reading up about historical brewing, and being really quite a big nerd quite like the idea of making a historical brew and taste something that people would have drunk 500 years ago! So I am...

Thanks for the replys, the temps are in centigrade so in old money it would be about 110, 125, 150. the grain was bought from a home brew store crushed, so I think i can assume it wouldnt be 'that' bad a crush! The hydro read 1000 for tap water - I assumed that meant its calibrated ? I got...

Hi I have just completed my first brew and managed to run into more problems then I ever imagined ..... but then again, it was pretty fun! My biggest problem however is that I ended up with a very low gravity, 1020, from my mash, and I was wondering if anyone could suggest why ? I...