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Hi All, I brewed a cream ale yesterday and when I took a final gravity reading I get ~1.041 with my hydrometer and by tilt read ~1.051 quite a difference. This was at ~66F (19C). I've brewed many all grain batches now and have used the tilt for a few years, I've never seen this kind of...

Hi All, I've tried to brew a tank 7 clone (recipe modified from a BYO magazine). I used some Amarillo hops that I bought in Denver (cobrew) in 2017, the Yakima website tells me they are 2016 harvest. I've kept the hops unopened in the freezer since I bought them. They seemed fine when opened...

Hi all I will be heading out to Dallas in a few weeks from the UK. Can anybody suggest good stores to buy single bottles of beer. Or build your own six packs?? Also what beer should I be looking out for? What's the best at the moment? Thanks for any help :) Cheers!

Hi I'm interested in buying a automated home brew system such as picobrew, however I don't know much about them. I'm looking for something small, counter top ideally, bread maker size, that doesn't rely on custom ingredient packs and is a reasonable price. I already have a grainfather (its...

Hi I have a slightly off topic question.... I'm visiting the bay area (San jose) in about a month. Can people recommend 1. Some good homebrew stores in the area? 2. Anywhere I can buy build your own 6 packs? Thanks for any help and appologies again for the off topic question Cheers!

Hi, I'm trying to build a DIY brewjacket (peltier/TEC immersion chiller for fermenting). I'm wondering if I can use a standard aluminium rod attached to the peltier to chill the fermenting beer? Or is it unsafe to have aluminium in contact with wort/beer?? Any help would be great...

Hi All, I'm looking for some way of getting control over my fermentation temperatures. Due to limited space I don't have room for a fridge/freezer. So I'm considering a DIY brewjacket solution for 2-3 Gallon batches. I've managed to get a TEC/Peltier running using a computer PSU and...

Hi All, I'd like to clone summer honey wheat by blue moon. I've come up with two recipes and would like advice on which would be closer to the real thing. Cheers! The first: Estimated OG: 1.038 SG Estimated Color: 6.1 EBC Estimated IBU: 15.0 IBUs Ingredients: ------------ Amt...

Hi, I currently keg my beer and store it in our outhouse. It gets pretty hot in there during the day and so I'd like some way of cooling my kegs. My only problem is that I have no power in there. I've thought about solar and TEC cooling or evaporation using a water bath, t-shirt as a...

Hi All, I'm going to attempt to brew two clones tomorrow, bluemoon and fat tire. I'd like to use Reverse Osmosis water for this but I'm unsure about how to treat it. Could you suggest suitable salt additions please? Cheers!

Hi All, I've been reading a few different posts and things on the internet and I've gotten a bit confused. If I add crystal malt to my grain bill will the extracted sugar be converted into alcohol? or do I just get extra residual sugars after fermentation??? Cheers!

Hi, I posted the question below in the electric brewing forum but it seems no one answers, so I thought I'd try here. My question is: My pid manual says "Indication and control accuracy 0.1℃, ±0.2%FS " What does this mean and how accurate can I expect the temperature measurements to...

Hi All, I've recently bought a sestos PID with the aim of upgrading my brewing system to a herms type system. When reading the PID instructions I see that the accuracy of the PID is quoted as "Indication and control accuracy 0.1℃, ±0.2%FS ". My question is what does this mean...

Hi All, My last two all grain batches seem to suffer from a very bitter aftertaste. I'm wondering if this is due to tannin extraction. Both have used wheat/pale malts. I've sparged at ~170F but I'm wondering if the ph of the mash/sparge increased to a high level. So my questions... 1)...

Hi, I'm looking for a recipe for an English golden or blonde ale. I've tried a couple of unsuccessful attempts and so thought I'd ask for advice. I'd like to produce something like Wye Valley HPA, Bath Ales Wild Hare, Adnams Explorer, Wychwood scarecrow, Arkells Wiltshire Gold. Any help...

Hi All, I've enjoyed drinking Blue Moon Belgian White and would like to try some of there other beers. However I cant seem to get hold of any in the UK. So my question: Does anybody have recipes for Blue Moon Beers other that Belgian White please? I'd really like to try the raspberry...

Hi All, I've been looking on the net to try and find an answer to the following: Can I brew with the following: rolled oats and bulgar wheat? If I can what do I need to do to use it?? My impression is that I need to heat the rolled oats to gelatinize the starch, maybe boil? then...

Hi, I've brewed a few ag batches now and I'm finding that my efficiency varies from batch to batch. Its been as low as 66% and as high as 79% (batch sparge). My question is what do I do if I miss my target OG?? If I stick with my hop schedule that I've calculated my balance and BU:GU...

Hi All, I'm trying to understand the best way to retain the volatile oils from hops in my all grain brews. When I look at the flash points for various oils I see... ALPHA-CARYOPHYLLENE: fp=90C bp=167C FARNESENE: fp=110C bp=260C Myrcene: fp=39C bp=167C (My source is...

Hi All, I recently brewed my first AG batch of beer. One thing I hadn't counted on was the amount of condensation produced during the 60 minute boil - I now know why all those guys in the youtube videos are brewing outside! By the end of the boil I had brown stuff running down the kitchen...