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I am struggling to understand where brewfather is getting it's numbers from. It's telling me Mash 15.4L Sparge 15.27L Total 30.67L Boil bol 26.19L In other words from the total mash and sparge I lose 4.48L. My grain bill is 5.76 kg (of which 95.5% is maris otter) and the grain absorption rate...

I want to get hold of some iodine for testing my mash. Most searches give food supplements from so-called naturopathic (fake medicine) supplies. I found this page Iodine Test for Starch which says that what we need is called Tincture of Iodine (or Iodine Tincture) and that it's hard to find...

I just bottled a batch of golden ale. When opening the FV afterwards I found a nasty looking black ring (see attached photo). There are no funky smells, and the beer tastes fine. Does it look like an infection? This brew was dry-hopped with 30g of whole hops which seemed to remain floating on...

I have had a couple of lower than expected OG brews recently and wondered if it's related to the 25kg bag of maris otter I am using. Googling for mash efficiency, one common piece of advice is to get a mill. Is it really worth it, or are these likely to be instances where they don't have access...

Hi all, Dave here. I restarted brewing a few years ago, after a hiatus of about 20 years! I dug my old kit out of the loft from among the birds nests (hence my username). All those years ago I was an extract only brewer but one of the items in the loft was a cool box that I swiftly converted...