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I could just take the plunge and buy one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cygnet-MFCT1030 ... 680&sr=8-1

Hmm. It's doable but I gather my margins with a 12 litre pot will be narrow. Sparging is a bug bear for me at the moment anyway. The next largest pots I have are like 4-5litre and my colander is plastic, so my present process is to let the grain drain in the colander, which barely holds the...

Jumping out of perfectly serviceable airplane brewery ... Joopsa brewery?

So I am not going fully AG cause I can currently only boil 10 litres. So I use partial mash with 1/3 AG, 2/3 Extract. The reason I thought I can't go all grain is because I can't boil the whole 20 litre batch. But... Correct me if I'm wrong here, but to mash for 20 litres I need about 3-4Kg...

Yea I put the bags in the washing machine on a 90* wash with no soap powder, but the bags were still covered in black fungus when they came out, so I binned them. And yes the composting. I have dumped grain into my kitchen bin that sat for a week as I wasn't around and when I came to use the...

I have seen many photos of it showing it being anything from blue to green to white. I've also seen it on bread (and coffee and fruit and anything else I left under the sofa) being a number of different colours....

Does anyone know of a good "How to identify..." bacteria/fungus colonies in the home and how dangerous they are? I only know that blue/green/white fluff is usually penicillium and fairly benign, also that white/orange/yellow stuff is apergisilus and it has some health concerns but certain...

So I made my last beer a few weeks ago and on Sunday night I discovered I had forgotten to dump the spent grain and hops which was still sitting in the brew kettle on the shelf. When I opened it, the smell was fairly ripe, but they otherwise looked okay and I thought the process of emptying the...

Didn't get to brew this weekend. The FV had a beer in it. It got moved to where I was going to keg it on Friday night, but Saturday morning it started bubbling the airlock every 60 seconds and remained doing so through until Sunday night even though the FG had been stable for several days :(...

http://beercalculus.hopville.com/recipe ... lding-red/ An Irish Red Ale, surprise, surprise :) I'll have to do something else eventually.

So I've moved from using a kit can as my base malt to using 2 Kg of light DME. The first brew which was a little hurried mind, tasted well funky at first. It spent 8 days in the FV and 10 days in the keg, but the first sample glass was very wrong. It's hop profile was way, way off and I swear...

+1 for "fill with water". It's the simpliest way for siphoning anyway. Just fill the tube from the tap, hold you finger over both ends, then pop one end in the source vessel and drop the other end in the receptical. The only downside is you introduce a tiny amount of water. And also +1 for...

Well I racked it into a new demi john on Saturday as I got sick of the sight of the break material floating. SG was 1010 which is about right. Tasting the sample and it might have a bit of "band aid" flavour :( Maybe didn't rinse the DJ well enough. Anyway, it's been in the secondary for 5...

Put me down for: 5 Gallons Coopers Draught kit 10 gallons Irish Red 2 gallons lager 1 gallon Blonde ==== 18 gal 643 Gallons.

The beer was crystal clear until those very last 200ml which was practically solid. All because I'm still catching back up after Christmas and I needed to keg a young beer that hadn't cleared.

Tasted okay, but I did stop myself from drinking and dumped it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biBINMk-gxM

Am aquarium test kit will tell you your KH (Carbonic hardness). This one is easy to deal with as carbonates react with both acids and alkaline. They will upset your mash pH as they are pH buffers, in that they react with acids and alkalies neutralizing them and keeping your pH constant. I...

I found it here: http://www.youngshomebrew.co.uk/QA%20my ... 20page.htm

I'm wondering if lagering is worth it also. I was reviewing the plan for my lager and it's at least 12 weeks, kettle to glass! I read somewhere that "chill haze" is mostly the result of serving beer at a lower temperature than it was conditioned and one of the reasons why lager is done the way...

So Demi 1 racked. Gravity is still about 1018 so it has a while to go. Tasting the gravity sample and there are very subtle off flavours and I can't quite put my finger on what they are. One is a fruity acidic tang which may be the high gravity, the other is an odd "burnt" organic kinda taste...