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I read about the Brewbot the day the Kickstarter came out, and the whole thing seems really off. Who gets into homebrew, but wants to miss out the whole creation process and just straight to the finished product? Why would you want to go all grain instead of extract if you wanted no part in the...

CAMRA continues to become increasingly irrelevant. "Craft" beer (despite the fact that there's no real definition of what it is) is making massive inroads and leaving CAMRA and its archaic ideas and members lagging behind. The definition of Real Ale may have been useful 40 years ago, but the...

Is that right? Does fructose actually taste fruity itself?

I guess it would also depend what else is going in line. I'm assuming: Boiler-> Hop Rocket -> Chiller (plate?) -> fermenter Gravity might need a hand in that case.

Fairy snuff!

I might be wrong about how they work, but doesn't more plates mean the unit can take more wort at once, so to cool at the same flow rate, the wort is flowing over each plate at a lower speed, therefore more contact time. Eg, for same plate area, if you had double the plates, you could cool the...

It's not like the post had drifted down the page! I got a quote for a heat exchanger from a UK company recently. I wanted it to cool 200 litres in 20 minutes, not recirculating, based in 100 degree input temp, and 20 deg output temp. To get this, the suggested exchanger needed 400 litres of...

375ml bottles in use with a cork: http://www.abstrakt.com/product/ab12

Sorry, didn't see your reply above when I added mine! I shall defer to your better judgement!

Actually, you're probably right, I retract my above statement about not needing a premises license. Left there for posterity though! https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-duties https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-licensing

I could be wrong, but my understanding was that as a brewer you need just need to be registered for duty to sell to a pub. They themselves will be selling to members of the public, so it's them that have the license. I did a google search about farmers' markets and found this...

Ace, thanks a lot :)

Eek, hope it all goes well! Did you need the premises license for brewing, or are you planning to sell from home? I was under the impression (probably wrongly) that if you were selling to a bar or distributer, then you only needed to be registered for duty, but if you wanted to sell to the...

Would love to see more photos of your setup there. Out of interest, did you take a look into any of the one way keg systems, such as KeyKeg? How did you source your metal kegs, and (if you don't mind me asking) how much did they set you back, without grants or anything? It's one area of the...

When you say you got your premises license, do you mean the HMRC license for beer duty, as opposed the to premises license for selling alcohol to the public? I find this thread very interesting, as (despite never having brewed in my life) I've got serious designs towards doing something similar...

After about a month of lurking, I thought I'd pop up and say hello. My brother's been brewing for a few years and I'm going over to his place this weekend to have a go at my first brew :) I've got fairly grand aspirations for my brewing (been looking at some *very* nice 10HL fermenters online!)...