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Looking for some advice please as I have a problem with my latest brew. In summary I think I’ve got a failed Yeast on my hands. Mash went great, hit my OG and cooled the 22L of wort down to 18C. Pitched a packet US-05 yeast straight into the FV, didn’t rehydrate (usually do but my last...

Recently brewed the malt miller kit for neck oil clone (oil for the neck) and just had my first bottle tonight. I’m really disappointed with the lack of flavour, it’s a recently nice pale ale but really lacking the flavour and aroma of neck oil. During the boil I followed the recipe to the...

I’ve completed 2 All grain BIAB brews now and on tasting both they are very sweet to my palate. I’m wondering if there’s something I’ve done which would result in a ‘sweet’ beer. Both were SMASH blonde beers with golden promise malt, one with Amarillo hops the other with cascade. Based on the...

Just tasted my first home brew today after 2 weeks in the FV and 2 weeks carbonating. It was a long wait but and absolutely delighted with the results! It’s a SMASH with Pale malt and Amarillo hops, I’d call it a blonde beer by style. Blown away that I could make something this good at the...

11 days into my first fermentationand wanted to check this looks normal with the little bits floating on top? I think I forgot to sterilise the sieve I used when pouring the wort into the FV and am concerned about contamination. There’s no obvious mould but just wanted to check the little bits...

Just brewed my first ever AG brew using BIAB. Mash and boil all went as planned, estimated pre-boil gravity hit. It all got a bit chaotic at the end though as I forgot to take an OG before transferring wort to fermentation bucket and aerating it, and think I rehydrated my yeast too early...

Hi I'm planning on doing my first BIAB brew this weekend and wanted to check how I work out the volume of water needed for the mash I have a 19L pot and I am looking to adapt the following receipt posted by Clibit a while back Batch Size (L): 10.0 Original Gravity (OG): 1.046 Final Gravity...

Evening All I’m another lockdown convert to Homebrewing and planning to go straight into all grain BIAB brewing after having read clibit’s thread and John Palmer’s how to brew book. Got some basic equipment from brew2bottle and just waiting on my grain, hops and yeast from malt miller and my...