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Wort finally boiling and bittering hops in. Lost 2 hours with that small hiccup. It's going to be a late un. Best get me sen an ale!

Ok. Element dried, wort back on boil lost about 3L but I can live with that, just going to add water as I'm too lazy to do the maths to recalculate the hops :D

Bit of a disaster. Finished the mash, temp was 66.8 - ok I thought, lets lift the bag. Now I've written the whole process down and ticked it off as I went along, so I thought I'd planned pretty well. However, what I didn't account for was lifting the bag and knocking the kettle element out of...

Doing a slightly modified version of the Big Kenny recipe Just got the spare quilt wrapped round it now :D Was hoping for a mash temp of 68C and it came in at 66.9, so not bad for beginners luck. 90 mins to kill, think I'll go grab a homebrew :cheers:

Was my first kit. Did it with a bag of brown sugar. Not too shabby at all really.

cheers pittsy That's that set up now. I'll leave like that for a week before moving back to the cool cupboard. Guess there's no issue with the bottle being fully submerged as the caps will be air and water tight.

Hi all. I realise that the ideal situation is to store the bottles somewhere warm for 2 weeks (18-25c) then another 2 weeks cool (12-15c), but with the current weather oop north I currently have no rooms that have a temp higher than 16c. So I guess it's just a case of sitting and waiting a few...

I plan on doing this for my next brew. Just need the long haired general to get the sewing machine out :) really looking forward to move to AG.

Hello all. I've been lurking on the forum for a few months now, so thought it was about time I introduced myself. Started out with kits in November of last year, before aquiring a 2 gallon pot and ventured into extract brewing. Last couple of weeks I invested in a boiler and chiller and this...