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I had a brewer explain to me that due to Henry's law there must always (in normal circumstances) be the required amount of oxygen in the wort because as it cools it has no option but to enter solution. Does this apply to brewer's wort with it's increased gravity...

Hi all, I know this has probably been asked a thousand times but I couldn't find the answers I was after by searching... How well does a 3kw element work for a HLT and Keggle? Can someone with experience let me know if they can go to 10g batches with this set up or will it struggle with...

Hi everyone just after a couple of tips on my rig design. I am building a two tier system with one pump. HLT will be elevated for gravity fed fly sparging. I was planning on recirculating the mash using my march pump to clear and then pumping to the kettle while gravity ensures the HLT feeds...

A nice easy one for the members who are clearly far more intelligent than I. I was trying to put together a speise calculator but after tying myself up in circles and making things worse I thought Id get some advice from the scientists amongst us, algebra never was my strong point :o I have...

Does anyone know of a nice easy to use metric calculator or have a spreadsheet to calculate the amount of speise required to prime my brews? I was intending to freeze some unfermented wort then boil and add to the bottling bucket at bottling time. Cheers :mug:

Hi Everyone, I'm wanting to get a hop bine tattoo, solid stencil sort of style, perhaps bordering on a tribal design by incorporating the names of my wife and soon to be born daughter, the idea is that it will grow as future children are born or whatever I want to add as time goes on. Just...

I bought a wort aeration kit online from here: http://www.homebrewstuff.com/wort-aeration-system.html It seems that the diffusion stone is clogged or that I need to do something before using it. The pump works fine but no air will pass through the stone, even if I blow down the tube with...

I'm asking considering that I am kegging and force carbing, not that that should make a difference... Does temperature impact the RATE of CO2 absorption? I know that the CO2 absorbs better into a colder liquid resulting in a lower psi been required for X vols of CO2. However, does temperature...

Ive had enough of my old 3/8" 25' immersion chiller taking up to an hour to cool my wort to pitching temperatures. I think that the main problem is the ground water can be quite warm at times. Looking at keg cowboy's $79 40plate chiller with all the attachments and 6' of high temp tubing I am...

Ive got a 358L (~95 gallon) chest freezer which I am wanting to use as my fermentation chamber. Ive read about using a light bulb to buffer the chilling of the freezer as my temp controller doesn't have increments short enough (less than one minute) to allow it to maintain an even temperature...

OK so I'm looking to brew a really low alcohol beer under 2%abv. I am thinking that a mild would be the best option. Here's the recipe so far: 50% Maris Otter 25% Dark Crystal 12.5% Chocolate 12.5% Oats 5.5IBU Styrian Golding @ 60min 4.0IBU Styrian Golding @ 10min Windsor Ale...

I'm interested to hear if anyone has a hobby which they think is as/more sociable than homebrewing. What other hobbies do HBT people partake in and are there any as sociable as homebrewing?

I'm currently enjoying an NZ Pilsner which seems to be that good of a session beer I cant put it down and go to bed :drunk: Its 5% but lots of late Nelson Sauvin and Motueka leaving it dry and clean. I thought it lacked malt initially but now its that crisp it doesnt need any and it would lose...

Yeastie Boys xeRRex The beer is 100% peated malt with what I assume to be a lot of late american hop if it's little brother is anything to go by.. Yeastie Boys Rex Attitude My wife got me two bottles for Christmas so I was going to have one now and save one for the birth of our first...

My burner seems to go fine for the first thirty minutes or so when I fire it up but after that the flame on the middle ring becomes yellow and theres a big build up of soot by the time my boil is over. I increased the size of the holes for the propane feed to each ring to try to increase the...

Before this becomes another CDA vs BIPA vs XYZ thread I just want to know what category these beers should be entered under in competition if there is no category listed as any name you would normally call this beer style. Also there was no American Stout or American Porter styles (it was a...

Cascadia dark ale is the greatest beer style ever! Its everything good about ales IMO. Malt, hops and a nice roastiness. Pure ecstacy to drink. The one I made is imperial btw to excuse my lack of simple sentence structure :drunk: Its fantastic! anyone agree?

I did a quick forum search and didnt find what I was looking for so I thought Id ask.. The yeast I pitched into my stout seemed to be pretty dead and hasnt got past 1.020 at the most from an OG of 1.050. It never really showed any visual signs of fermentation, just a little bit. After three...

This started as a drunken conversation so this is probably the best place for this... Right so there's BMC, then theres craft beer. Right? I know there are geographical styles but they're normally the local BMC in this case. What then are the beers in between BMC and craft? I would have...

I'm brewing a clone of Little Creatures PA for my brewclub competition next month and my mash is 1*C lower than I aimed for. I know it shouldn't cause too much difference but I was thinking that if my FG ends up being lower than I aimed then I may be best using a touch less priming sugar to...