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Exactly as the title. You need hops and order some of the variety you need but how do you know what you are getting ? I have just bought some Fuggle leaf hops from Braumarkt they arrived and the package says 11.3% alpha acids ! I do not believe that figure the British hop growers website give a...

On the back of the over pitch thread below. Recent brew with a 27L volume and 11P gravity pitched 11g of Windsor ... wort fermented out at about 40 hrs gravity was 4P thought I had boobed and that the yeast was under performing or dead so, as I missed it out of the original wort I added 500 g of...

Hi All Merry whatever term you support to you 😁 So I have been using Nottingham for my everyday ale brewing and to be fair I have not had too much to moan about. I have been using 11g sachets to date but have done a bit of arithmetic and it would be much cheaper buying a 500g brick and subing...

Hi to anybody who is interested 😁 Well I have now done this as an experiment three times and I have found it to work really well for me. Not only does the grain basket retain the hop flowers but because it does this so well the onboard pump can then also be used to pump the wort into the FV...

So I use a Grainfather S40 to make my wort and it is fine does a reasonable job for not a huge outlay money wise. One thing I dislike about it, and I do not think the S40 is unique here, is cleaning out the hops after the wort has been removed to the FV . I use hop flowers rather than pellets...

Hi I am going to have a bash at making some next week and needed more info on water requirements etc so did a search and this German article came up, it has a lot of information on how to brew it. It may have been posted before in which case it may be interesting to those who missed it first...

Hi I use a Grainfather S40 brewing system and by and large find it is good enough for my purposes. There is one area that I think the system could be improved quite a bit it is temperature control of the mashing process . The temperature control on the S40 is pretty shonky if for example you...

Just finished my first brew using my new Grainfather S40 to make an English ESB. Everything went perfectly I have pretty much nailed the gravities pre and post boil but did get about one litre less volume in the fermenter ? Not moaning though I have an OG of 13.25 Plato and the predicted was...

Hi I bought a mini keg starter kit when I got into cider making last autumn three kegs and a tap. I have been using them for my beer and have to say I am impressed with them. I find a 5 L keg lasts me a weekend just nicely so I am thinking of getting a few more of them. I had thought about...

OK I have been exploring my water profile and have been given an analysis by my supplier which reads Cl 12.5 Ca 43 Mg 3.5 Na 5.6 SO4 26 HCO3 123 mg/ml or ppm My water calculator askes for CaCo3 and I have come across convertors that state HCO3 / 1.22 gives CaCO3 which in my case would be about...

Is Paulaner Hefe-Wiezen pastuerised ? Sudden thought was the yeast could be used as a started 🤣

I bought one of these all in one systems three weeks back. I have still not used it but thought I would give my thoughts on a few things. 1 there is no hop filter so the wort cannot be pumped out of the kettle after the boil. 2 The drain tap is so close to the bottom of the kettle that fitting...

So baring in mind that the analysis of brewing water is important I have tracked down an analysis of the local tap water. The major constituents are as follows Ca 47 ppm Cl 3.46 Mg 3.83 K 0.46 Na 3.48 SO4 8.3 HCO3 156 NO3 2.65 and pH is between 7.4 and 7.9 so quite alkaline for beer making. When...

One thing I find odd about this bit of kit is that there is no hole in the lid to put the pipe from the wort pump through ? Is there a safety reason for this or have they just not done it? I think a bit of temperature stability would be gained by drilling an appropriate sized hole in the lid so...

I have been watching quite a few review videos of these things and for the cost of them I am struggling to see the advantages that make them worth 200€ more than a humble plastic bucket. I do understand that it is possible to harvest yeast but that about it for me. At first I was thinking yes a...

The thermal cut out failed on my system and my conditioning beer got over temp, more than 25C for about 12 hrs or so will it still be OK?

I have just finished my first brew in 30 plus years and I have a sup of the finished but raw beer... full of yeast but still tastes good and hope that will improve with conditioning and resting. So going forward I have decided to just go straight for an all in one brew system. Brewing with the...

Did my first brew in 30 plus years today. I did brew in a bag and only a single batch sparge. I am hoping to make a British type IPA and using brewers friend did all the calcs amazingly I near enough nailed it although I am going to have to dilute the wort a bit as I want to make about 4.2 -...

So I have gone ahead and bought all the stuff I need to get brewing my beer :thumbsup: I have almost completed my wort chiller which is made from 20ft of 12mm (1/2 inch) annealed copper terminating at a tap fitting to take a couple of flexible fittings I happened to have lying handy... so why...

Hi again I am just getting me thoughts together on my first brew after a long time off. I do not really have the equipment to do a full brew but I do have two kettles available. One at 11L and the other at 8L . So my recipe calls for a total grain bill of 2.8 kg and I have read in a brewing book...