Cheyne_brewer

Clean-up on aisle three… 🤣🤣🤣

Two issues here. One - when using a refractometer with fermenting / fermented beer you need to do a calculation to get the true reading...

I bought some 100g yeast packs in the morning but couldn’t order any grain kits. Hopefully there’s someone out there willing to take on...

The butter allowance per adult was a meagre 4oz, enough for bread & scrape (ask yer mum!) but not a huge amount. Don’t forget that most...

I only whirlpool during hop stand to keep the hops in suspension and when chilling to maximise wort contact with the coil.

I watched the film “Threads” today. Having grown up in Sheffield and seeing many familiar places it was a gut-punch. The events leading...

To be fair it’s not done any harm at all - my OG was 1055 so nice efficiency!

Oh dear. I thought brew day was going too smoothly. I suddenly realised I was mashing with no malt pipe in my BZ4. Thank God for the...

Astonish oxi isn’t perfumed - it’s what I use. It also contains washing soda so is more effective at cleaning than neat percarbonate I...

Back in the day a friend’s family had a tv with an ultrasonic remote. You could change channels randomly by jingling your pocket change.

I’ve just done an emergency Kölsch style beer. The brew had to halted after the mash due to circumstances beyond my control. After...

I fill my used fermenter after cleaning and decant into an empty 25l bin or fermenter when required. I use very hard tap water as I have...

I presume that will also handle the cleaning side. Currently I use oxi cleaner or neat sodium percarbonate for cleaning and no rinse...

Does anyone have a good value source for liquid no-rinse sanitiser (Easyclean, Chemsan etc). £20+ plus p&p for a litre is a little...

Oh they had plenty of Halloween stuff too! Worst instance of premature enjingulation 🤪 I have come across was John Lewis in...