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So after a wee break from brewing as moved apartments.... I decided to brew a partial mash Scottish Ale 26 liters planned grain bill as below but brew night (Wed evening) was a nightmare.. drill failed so had to mill grains by hand then both my home made controllers failed so had to heath...

Looking for a kind soul to help me test something... I brew in the tropics let's say that home brewing is semi legal but frowned upon... Hence my supplies come from far away and getting CO2 refills is hard... I found a place that does fire extinguishers and got it filled for about 3 USD!! 5...

So far Ive only been bottling and I must say some of my beers are great out of the bottle but gee wiz doesn't the bottling process just suck??? I live in the far east and all things homebrew are considerably harder to do here than back home (GB) I love Real Ale so decided to blow some of my end...

Hi all I'm planning on doing a Bock in the next couple of weeks, grain bill will be mostly Munich malt wanted to put some Viena but the LHBS had no stock probably some carapils and some roasted barley or choc malt for colour not decided on hop schedule but I'm guessing that's not so important in...

So just finished my second all grain batch (bar the clean up) and yes I've had a few brews!! Great IPA and 70 shilling!! Anyway... Despite the happy feeling from the brews I'm a little concerned about my efficiency and boil off .... So it's an Amber ale and I'm guessing my crush was too course...

I have one of those extendable racking canes... I always rack to secondary before cold crashing... Due to a lack of equipment and so I can fit it in the fridge I use the water containers that I buy my water in for brewing... Anyway long and short of it I split 5 gallons into two 3 gallon water...

Hi All doing my first all grain on Saturday, moving on from PM using a cooler with SS braid. Most of my PM batches have turned out good the only issue is chill haze even with batches that I've used gelatin on and cold crash, always get good hot n cold break. So I reckon the only thing left is...

Living in a tropical climate where the outside temp is 32 degrees centigrade is always a challenge to keep fermenting temps as close to optimum. Normally I keep the fermenting bin in a polystyrene box with as many frozen water bottles as possible and change them out every 12 hours... This keeps...

Hey all, a partial mash pale ale OG 1.048 finished primary after 2 weeks stable at 1.011 racked to secondary & popped in some gelatine then into fridge to cold crash want this batch crystal clear!! The airlock is starting to bubble again?? Not bubbled since day 5 in primary so pretty sure it's...

Looking for some advice.... My situation is a little strange... Ex Pat in Asia who got sick of drinking the local brew which costs 5 US dollars for a 660ml bottle or paying up to 9 bucks for a imported English or German bitter not even 500ml!! (I'm British by the way!) So I decided to restart...

OK so it is carbonating just no where near as much as I expect..... I have brewed 3 PM batches after doing a few kit and extract batches. The first PM batch carbed well after 10 days or so. First batch was 100g of corn sugar dissolved in boiling water added in the bottling bucket in the standard...

Hi all, still new to brewing or rather back after a long absence!! now brewed 3 coopers kits 2 with speciality grains, 1 extract with speciality grains and 2 partial mash.... been pretty happy with the results so far the only thing I seem to be struggling with is getting enough of a strong malty...