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I mash for 45 mins and boil for 30 mins with no obvious detriment to the beers I make (bitters and milds). Simply adjust hopping amounts using brewers friend app. A far cry from 90 mins for each I used to do for each when I started brewing. Could probably cut down the time a bit more (as others...

You got a great bargain there! You’ve even got the fairly rare Wheeler European book!

Hi Anna, yes, I’m lucky it’s still there. Really handy. I can’t get everything I want there, but a fair bit, including bulkier stuff like grains

Thanks everyone :)

Hi everyone, Great forum you have here! I’ve been brewing since the mid 2000s, albeit with a gap of about ten years somewhere in the middle when kids came along. I brew bitters and milds and serve them in my king kegs. I’m from the old days! I live in Whitley Bay and got back into brewing a few...

Won’t this oxidise the beer?

I like Starmer. He took over during a national emergency when people tend to get behind whoever is in government. He nevertheless managed to improve the standing of the party in opinion polls only a year after an election in which labour did terribly. The fact that there is now a vaccine...

I’ve also got a 30 litre cygnet as well and it is good quality, very solid, would recommend it. Tap needs replacing really, but there is a video on how to do this and the bits you need