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@JGHunter Nobody actually needs a pressure gauge on a PB. It's a nice to have. If your beer barely makes it out of the tap, you need more gas. If its foam dispensed or the RV vents there's too much pressure. With a little experience you will get to match your internal pressure with how you like...

So take an SG reading tomorrow, and if its the same on Sunday you can go ahead and bottle it. But in the unlikely event that it has crept down some more, you just repeat until its settled out.

I am surprised your company allowed you drive to 650 miles on a business trip. Trips like that were discouraged by the last two companies I worked for, company car or not, and you were positively encouraged to use public transport. I regularly used to use the train to travel long distances and I...

You are right. On inspection Muntons Wheat Spray Malt is 55% Wheat Malt and 45% Barley Malt. And I bet they produce most of the DME sold to homebrewers in the UK, however it is packaged (do Coopers produce DME other than in enhancer?)

The Homebrew Company charge £7.95 for delivery to mainland UK from their RoI premises for one box under 30kg. However whether this gets 'refined' for remote UK postcodes I have no idea.

I understand that, in a typical barley malt based beer, up to 10% of the grain bill can be wheat. Whether the same logic can be applied to DME and whether the outcomes are the same, I have no idea, but it might be worth a try. So if you have a 3kg LME based kit add say 250g wheat DME...

There are quite a few videos on Youtube where people run cars on 'wood gas' which became very popular in Europe in WW2 due to the shortage of motor fuel. And at the same time in the UK many vehicles ran on coal gas fed from large bags carried on the roof. The cars in the photos I posted earlier...

You've selectively missed the point I was making.

I think you might be under the impression that government ministers were singlehandedly responsible for obtaining PPE. That's not the case. 'The goverment' issue a directive and a budget to go with it and its then up to the army of civil servants in the supply chain, in this case NHS managers...

I see there are people making disparaging comments about the bloke who made £Ms by facilitating a PPE deal a few months back. Same people who months ago were making disparaging comments about lack of PPE at the time, fuelled by media 'outrage', in spite of the fact that the world and his wife...

This is the future. Hydrogen powered cars and electric trams

Bucket in the yard?

Here's a harder one for her then.... Which physicist is attributed with developing 'Bernouilli's Principle' in fluid dynamics

Who was the outgoing US president in the year 2000. Which neighbouring country was used as a major troop assembly area prior to the Iraq war of 2003 Which clubs won the English FA Cup three times each in seasons 1999/2000 to 2008/9 inclusive In which year was the first iPhone released What was...

I often recover yeasty trub from one brew and store it in the fridge for reuse. However I usually don't keep it for longer than two weeks or so, will only use the top layers of settled yeast, only go up to three generations and importantly I scrupulously sanitise anything that comes into contact...

@terrym: Should I leave the Krausen collar on until day 10 also or remove sooner? Instructions say around day 3, then lock on the lid. Leave it alone on the understanding that the krausen collar is sealed like the lid

As I understand it there is a difference between rehydrating a dry yeast and making a starter. Rehydration is merely to activate the yeast for a short time before pitching, whereas a starter is where the yeast undergoes a cell multiplication stage which takes considerably longer and may involve...

You could try increasing the wheat content in your beer, say up to 10%, and maybe give your beers longer to carb up in the warm even though you believe them finished after a week. Sometime longer conditioning helps too. Otherwise what you are doing is similar to what I do and no doubt many other...

Its fine. Now put the lid on and leave it alone until about day 10 when an SG reading might be in order to see how it has performed. Every time you take the lid off there is a danger of nasties getting in, however miniscule this risk may actually be.

If your tap water tastes and smells OK and you drink it without thinking then it is fine for kit brewing as it comes out the tap, and is extremely unlikely to have affected the FG, although you may have to treat it with a campden tab as I do if the chlorine taste is obvious. Next the UK has one...