Search results

Hi fellow Home Brewers, I was thinking about buying the Fermentasaurus, but I had a question about it. I want to be able to bottle directly from it using a standard bottling tube and valve (like this - http://www.vasepivo.cz/zbozi/prislusenstvi/nadoby-a-prislusenstvi-O65/stacec-Z106.html)...

Hi All, I am trying to calculate the amount of Co2 needed for my beer and am using https://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/. When making the calculation, is the trub included in "Amount Being Packaged"? Or should only the total volume of which goes into bottles be used? Using...

Hi fellow brewers, I just completed my second brew over the weekend, and while I aced my volumes and gravities during mashing, I had a problem during the boil. My gas burner is not the strongest and during my first brew I had 33 liters pre boil and boiled off 7 liters in the hour. This time...

Hi All, I am calculating the amount of water I need for my BIAB brew (I'm just on my second batch). I've found out roughly the amount of water I need, including trub, boil off rate, grain absorption etc. I also know my target ABV, gravities and the brewhouse efficiency but I may want to...

Great, thanks

Hi All, I am going to be brewing a milk stout and want to hit an OG of 1.076 with Safale s04 yeast. I will be brewing a 20 litre batch. Does anyone have any knowledge on what a good pitching rate is? I plan to rehydrate my yeast before pitching...I'm wondering if I should use 1, 1.5 or 2...

Hi All, I am living in Czech Republic (Prague) and stores, even online, for home brewing are not really around. I was looking to buy, in particular, a 40 odd litre pot with sight glass and temp gauge. Does anyone know any good (and cheap!) online stores in the EU where I can buy this, and...

Hi All, Semantic question - quite often recipes say to add LME and then ensure total volume of water is 10 litres, for example. When it says add water so total volume is 10 litres, do recipes mean 10 litres of water, or 10 litres of water + the LME as the LME has increased the volume of the...

Hey, Thanks for all your replies. The 1.7kg malt can was hopped, but the 1kg can wasn't. Am hoping that will be sufficient to balance the sweetness. Put the fermenter in the closet in our bedroom, unbeknownst to my girlfriend who was wondering what the hell the 'blub-blub-blub' sound was in...

Hey, Recently I went to my local (20 minute drive....) brew shop to get a Coopers wheat beer kit. I wanted to get 1kg Coopers DME of wheat malt to go with my can but the shop had none, but they reckoned LME was better anyway. So, I ended up fermenting 1.7kg of Coopers Wheat beer and 1.5kg...

Hey, thanks for the feedback. The kit reckons the final gravity should be 1.010. Being a perfectionist, I want to hit this. This time I'm putting the fermentor in a slightly warmer area and will see how it differs. Thanks Comrades

Hi All, I'm up to my third brew now - all extract brews to get my experience up. Each problem I've had is that the final gravity has been too low. My first three batches has been (OG/FG): 1.041 / 1.020 - A lager which I arsed up, didn't rehydrate yeast (21 litres) 1.052 / 1.018 - Wheat...

Hey, Thanks for the info. Was very useful. I don't put the samples back in - I like to see how it tastes over time. Bottling day was interesting seeing the damn bottling tube and valve Didn't fit. But otherwise okay. Cheers, EB

Hi All, Long time drinker, first time brewer. How important is it to clean immediately after brewing using certain equipment? For example, I am using a trial jar and hydrometer to check the gravity of beer each day but am not so concerned with cleaning it after each use - just rinsing...