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Stick it in the dishwasher, that’s what I did with mine when it started leaking and it somehow fixed it 😆

I’ll be sparging enough to collect around 30litres (pre-boil) to hopefully collect 25litres in the fv. How would I estimate the OG of the final wort before the boil? I was thinking a 500g pack of muscavado- I’ve heard good things about it especially in darker beers apparently it gives a lovely...

Very nice indeed, haven’t had one with brass on before

Cool, In the interest of keeping it cheap I’ll probably be inclined to add some treacle or muscavado sugar. How much would you suggest for a 25l batch?

Interesting! I had thought of stirring in a couple of kilos of pale ale malt to my brother in laws mash after he has taken the first runnings and letting it mash for another hour with more liquor before then draining off the second runnings. Do you think there would be any point doing this? I...

You didn’t mention anything regarding getting oxygen into your wort before pitching your yeast, are you thrashing is with a paddle attached to a drill or using bottled oxygen with air stone etc? With wort at this high a gravity I would be wanting to get as much oxygen in there as I possibly...

What’s a reiterated mash? I did an 8.5% imperial that took a couple of months to carb in the bottle and I’ve just bottled a 9.5% imperial but I used a sachet of Safale F2 and it looks like it’s carbonated already after only a week in the bottle

All mine have glass bottoms, I’ve even got one with a shilling in the bottom between 2 glass bottoms, clever.

Tbh I’m happy with whatever gravity it ends up being, obviously the priority is the initial mash and whatever the second runnings are is whatever they are. I do think the same though with regards to efficiency of the first runnings probably not being that great. I don’t think I’d want to spend...

Ok I’m calling you the ginger pioneer! Seriously mate I take my hat off to you I’ve chickened out and gone for a smash! Please let me know how this turns out keep us all posted!

I’ve got pewter tankards but I have a nasty habit of biting the rim of the tankard therefore I have to buy a new one every year as I completely destroy them, I just can’t help myself 🙄

I’ve assumed a gravity of around 1.060 and ordered 50g of nugget (12.8AA) which when put into Brewfather gives me an IBU of 60.

You mean put into software the amount of malts that get you the OG?

I don’t know of any way of working out the IBUs on a Parti gyle, unless I’m missing something?

So if I did 60g of willamette @ 60 min would this be enough? I’m not bothered about adding any later hops

Haha I’m letting my brother in law worry about the main beer all I need to worry about is what hop and what quantities on hop to do in the second runnings. I’m thinking just bittering hops so just a 60 min addition. Any ideas of desired IBU on second runnings would be great

Hi, my brother in law is doing this massive stout and as I’m helping him with the brewday we had the idea of using the second runnings for a second beer parti gyle style. Attached is the recipe, could anyone advise on hop additions? Ideally as cheap as possible! Also would anyone have any idea...

Sounds good I’ll try that then. If I did a stronger smash like 7.5% would 100g of hops be enough in 25litres?

Tbh I think I’m now leaning more towards just doing a smash brew. It’s not really worth my time doing a half batch of ginger as it still takes me the same to me to do a full batch so I need to have a good idea that it’s going to turn out nice lol.

Lol thanks for that. Yeah I’ve settled on Amber, it’s cheap too. I’ll go for a single pack of S-04 for 25litres, asking as that’s not a blatant underpitch at 1.068. Still unsure about the ginger amount but I’m never going to know unless I just do it. I’m aiming for a sort of brandford fly clone(ish)