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I used to use isinglass finings but moved over to gelatine several years ago. I bottle my beers and initially saw the gel bits until I worked out how best to do it. For a 20 litre brew I dissolve about 6 grams of gelatine powder into 150 - 200ml of hot but not boiling boiled water (you need to...

If you want some recipes then have a look at wildabouthops.nz where there are lots of clone recipes for English ales using those hops. I have just had a go at their Guinness West Indies porter recipe. It is still bottle conditioning but first impressions are quite favourable.

I remember the place near the Seven Dials. It was where I got alll my brewing stuff in the old days. If you are in Lewes you could also try Abyss brewery who have a tap open weekends in the brewery.

Once my fermentation has slowed down but is still going (usually day 3 or 4) I transfer my beer from the fermenter into a polypin with the tap end pointing up and an air lock in. I get a thick layer of yeast settling out in a couple of hours and let it ferment out for another 5 or 6 days. I...

Welcome Dan. Nice to see someone quite local to me (I live near Lewes). Happy brewing!

That's an interesting point Tanglefoot. I put it into Brewers Friend with the correct alpha acid etc and it came out at 87 IBU (I suspect that the algorithms used by Brewfather may differ a bit from Brewers Friend). 87 is still high I know but it certainly doesn't taste unbalanced. I like...

I recently tried doing a SMASH for the first time uisng Amarillo as the hop. I tried the first bottle the other day and am very happy with the result. It is definitely an APA style and quite hoppy but not as hoppy as the American IPA's. If you wanted to have a go it is very simple: 4.95Kg...

I have used the recipe from the wildabouthops.nz website. I only recently found this website but it has lots of recipes for well known beers. This is the first one I have done so I still don't know how good they are. The brew went well and it came out at the right numbers (I increased the...

Proper Job and West Indies Porter are my go to beers from the shops. I have a good recipe for Proper Job that I have done many times and I think I might actually prefer mine now. After ages hunting for a recipe for West Indies Porter (including trying to get one out of Guinness) I have now...

I always do 60 minute plus boils. To be honest I don't see the value of a shorter boil because it is while the boil is taking place that I am sterilising the fermenter, rehydration yeast etc and a 30 minute boil would not give me enough time to do all that.

I think you have identified the key element in saying that you clean everything immediately after use. If equipment is cleaned before there is any chance of bugs getting established on it then the sanitising before reuse is very effective and you should not get infections. I have always done...

This is Monty aka Brewdog. We found him abandoned on a Greek beach.

The New Zealand site looks terrific. I have been looking for a Guinness West Indies porter recipe for a couple of years to no avail. I even tried to get Guinness to provide some information. There are recipes for several other beers I have wanted to try brewing. Time for a serious order from...

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I make up a priming and fining solution. I fine with gelatine so dissolve the required amount (usually about 6 grams for 22 litres) in hot boiled water and then dissolve into that solution the required amount of sugar (I use about 75 grams caster sugar for 22 litres). I then use a syringe to...

I have given my son in law a box with one bottle each of my last six brews which I named and labelled up etc. There were two different types of porter, two different brews of a Proper Job clone, an English pale ale and an oatmeal stout, all above 5%abv. Looked quite good at the end and I know...

Today I brewed a clone of Old Sslug Porter. I found a recipe on the internet but it looked like it would be much too light so I adapted it a bit. Not sure it will be like Old Slug but should be good hopefully. 4.5 Kg Maris Otter 40g Crystal malt 50g Black malt 175g Chocolate malt 90 min...

Actually we are in a weird set up where South East Water supply us and Southern Water deal with waste water. But Omay well get a report done. Thanks.

I have never had an analysis done. I just use half a Campden tablet and about 4.5ml of AMS in about 25 litres of initial water. The pH of the mash comes out at a bit above 5. The mash is at 66 - 67 degrees.

Happy to share the recipe for Proper Job. This is based on a recipe that I found that won a competition for home brewing Proper Job that St Austell ran several years ago and I have tweeked slightly. It works for me every time and is based a a 21 - 22 litre brew length and a 70% efficiency...