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Hi guys. I'm heading out west to my old home brew store to pick up some supplies as part of a visit and was hoping to get some advice on recipes - specifically amounts. I've tried 2 batches brewing previously from kits etc and both have turned out disasterously so I was hoping that some...

So it looks like my latest brew is going to turn out very thin and weak. No problem - I'll just be bloated before I'm drunk My plan up until recently with my next brew was to do a stonkingly strong trappist ale so I figure it's wise to find one thing out... What effects the strength of the...

hi there i posted about a week ago about how my 1st brew tasted rancid and wondered why it might have gone wrong. since then i've watched a couple of vids on the process and it looks like i got the steps right the majority of the way but there were 2 things i did that stood out... 1 - i...

is there any good reason not to use a quantity of ice cubes in the mix to cool things down when i pitch the wort etc into the primary fermentor? Seeing as it'll just melt away and become part of the mixture. Would speed up the cooling process thats for sure!

I just tried a sip from my first ever beer and have to be honest, it tastes a bit rubbish so wondered what I might have done wrong. I started off with a John Bull tin for wheat beer. boiled that all up in my plastic bucket, waited for it to cool then added yeast and shoved it in the cupboard...