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Hi all, Latest brew (4% blonde / pale) is currently in the FV. This will be the first brew I'll transfer to a shiny new corny keg that's eager for action. I took a SG sample last night I was concerned fermentation may have stalled. It has in fact already fermented down to the target FG of...

I'm also a relative AG newbie and also had what I thought was a stalled fermentation this week. Had 20L of a blonde / pale ale brewed last weekend. M44 Mangrove Jacks yeast which seemed to take a while to get going but then went bananas for two days. FV is next to my desk where I work from home...

Cheers @peebee, good to know we have a set of data we can use (even if we’re not entirely sure we can rely on it). I’ll use the above as a base for my next brew and let you know how I go… Just checking I understand, the last paragraph or so is showing why the earlier numbers were so different...

Pleasant surprise this eve. Thought fermentation had stalled on my pale / blonde as, after a day or two’s vigorous bubbling, it had stopped completely, and the lid had dipped in a little (plastic fermenting bucket). M44 yeast. Quick SG check and it’s at the target 1.008. Tastes good too, still...

Right then, in spite of my pessimism, Severn Trent responded pretty quickly with the information I asked for. Coupled with the data above, we should now have all the info we need I believe. @peebee Dare it be as simple as plugging the figures into a water calculator and adjusting for...

Great stuff. Appreciate the review 😊 Looks like they come with a chiller now too, 👍👍

Sounds good.. they seem a really good bet for the money. What size are you doing your 23 litre batches in? 25 or did you go 30? Amazon have all 3 for around the 220 mark at the moment, might wait and see what January brings…

Unrelated to the brew (though I am a bathams fan…) I’m looking at getting an all-in-one and the Klarsteins look good for the money.. how do you find yours?

Double Brew Day complete yesterday. Aim was a session pale ale / blonde. 1.45kg Pale Ale Malt 150g Carapils 100g Caramalt 100g Vienna 30 min mash @ 67 10 min second mash / sparse @ 75 5g Centennial 10% AA - 30 min boil 50g CML US C hop blend - 20 min hopstand @ 80deg. Repeated a second time...

Half way through a double brew day for me. American Blonde hopped with centennial for bittering and CML’s US C hop blend for an 80deg hopstand. 10 Litres into the FV with post boil gravity bang on at 1.049. The other 10 litres will be brewed this eve when the little one is safely tucked up in...

@peebee Thanks for taking the time to do this, very much appreciated. I'll get something brewed soon using this as my baseline and adjusting water accordingly. I read in one of your previous posts that some data thrown out on another ST report suggested multiple sources. Could this be possible...

I had a suspicion it would be such... :laugh8: Thanks @peebee. I tried to get some data into your defuddler last night, but seems my water report means I have two hands and a foot tied behind my back. I don't even have the Magnesium figure in mine.. I have a request in with Severn Trent and a...

I'm also in the camp of gingerly dipping a toe into water chemistry. I have some test kits on order to try and make some sense of my tap water. I'm in a similar position to @Rogerh in having to rely on Severn Trent water reports, which seem to be as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike...

Not brewing today but planning my weekend's brew. Somewhere between a blonde and an APA. Something like a 4% with 20-25 IBU. Pale Malt (85%) Carapils (5%) Caramalt (5%) Vienna (5%) Centennial to bitter and Citra / Cascade / Amarillo flavour additions. CML 5 yeast.. It'll be a double brew day...

Well you can consider me on the floor crying in anguish. If nothing else, beer brewing is getting a little too close to dreaded Science lessons for my liking.... :laugh8: :laugh8: Ah well, beer will help... :beer1:

Cool post fermentation? :?::?:

Morning folks, It's now a full two days since my third AG brew, so I'm naturally knee deep planning my next, which will likely be a double brew, possibly with some liquoring back in the FV. The aim being to fill my corny in time for Christmas with only an 11.5L stock pot at my disposal...

Big fan of the Jura 10 year. Tried the 14 year as well and preferred the 10…

Couple of excellent pints of Ludlow Blonde while out this afternoon. Now having another Amarillo hopped Pale Ale bottled four weeks ago. Coming into its own now and continuing to clear…

I’m also a relative newbie.. I have used Brewfather and found I needed to adjust a little as I went. You need to know (or estimate) such things as boil off volume and fermentor trub loss.. I found I could only really estimate these once I’d done a couple of brews. It meant that my gravity...