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Stu - see post 1 - 32 litres

Stan - I am not going to add a lot of extra hops. Cwrw - I am allowing for hop utilisation. And you could say I was mashing to make a 7.5% beer - is that really different to mashing to make a 3.8% beer ?

I usually use 32 litres of tap water to make 22 litres of beer after mashing and boiling. Next time I will start with just 20litres of water but keep all ingredients as before. Then dilute at bottling stage to get 22 litres. Should save on electricity as less to heat up to 70 C for mash and less...

dilute bleach for me from any supermarket - unscented of course.......

Hazlewood - many thanks the tables I use for Simcoe state that utilisation is (Boiling) 15 minutes 0.125 10 minutes 0.092 5 minutes is 0.050 so would 15 minutes at 70 deg C be 0.0125 ? thanks again

Hi - does anyone know of a table for below 100 deg C please ? thanks

balance scales for me- half a gram easily measurable - my weights are lengths of stainless steel wire...........

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10 gallons of water in 2 litre bottles ready for when both electricity and water supply fails. Thats 23 2 litre bottles for the mathematically challenged. I also have 10 2 litre bottles of drinking water in the garage. 1 bottle of dark star hophead in fridge.

the-home-brew-shop (Farnborough) free delivery £65 and above - fantastic range and very fast delivery - prices very comparable with other suppliers. Used them for over 30 years.

the further north, you spin slower, but don't ask me about if you were standing exactly on the top spinning axis, and if you walked 10 metres "south" from there and walked west for 1 mile, and how many time zones you would cross.....

or put a balloon inside the pressure barrel and pump it up with air...no oxidation, cheap, simple, quick, sterilisable..........

I add the pellets loose on day 3, by day 6 most are on the surface so I remove them with a very fine plastic sieve, when bottling I run through a kleenex tissue to remoce every trace of the pellets.

peebee - ok I am out of discussion - both hydrometers and refractometers cannot cope with alcohol is a sugar solution - but the errors are very small - better to concentrate on other aspects of brewing perhaps - it is dry hopping for me...

peebee - make up a 100 ml sugar solution such that refractometer reading is 5 BRIX. Now add 4 ml of vodka. The reading will now be less than 5 BRIX because vodka weighs less than water. BUTTTTTTTTTTT, I think the error is around .002 on the hydrometer and can be ignored. If I want a 3.8% beer...

I have never seen a correction factor that high - ( low) - 1.04 seems typical, also to vary from say 7 BRIX to 7.5 BRIX is worrying - unless your instrument is 0 - 50 BRIX - maybe ask someone else to take some test readings ?

RichardM = hydrometers are also inaccurate due to alcohol in solution...

baked bean bread, lol, make the bread, toast it, butter it, cover with a whole tin of cold branston baked beans.......

CHIPPYTEA - use the bread maker to mix / knead for 20 mins, then transfer bread to a lined loaf tin, prove until an inch above top of tin, then bake at 200 deg C wirh a pan of water in the oven to create steam environment. Even better to make a yeast starter with your (bottled) water, 7 gm fast...