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The Works now has the Jon Finch book for £2.50 so i grabbed a copy.

Home Brew Beer: Master the Art of Brewing Your Own Beer “Updated to include new techniques (such as kettle souring), and new recipes (such as Brett IPA and Peach and green tea kettle sour), you'll have all the information you need to brew your perfect beer.” Listed as a preorder. I don’t recall...

Looking at Amazon a new Greg Hughes edition is due in September. There is even a recipe on the preview.

Is the heater in the FV ?

Sorry I meant running the wort chiller in the FV in reverse so transferring heat from a separate tub of water with an aquarium heater and pump. It sounds a bit off a faff once I’ve written it down.

Interesting I quite like this option before I embark on a brew fridge project others have suggested. Its a shame copper is reactive (both acid and alkali). Otherwise I think I would add an aquarium pump and use the wort chiller as a heat exchanger.

I’ve rigged up a heating thermostat overnight in our north facing garage to log ambient temperature. The coding on the date stamp is a little iffy but broadly this is the ambient temperature profile 10.30pm ish to this morning. There was a frost overnight. Is this likely too cold to brew an ale...

Thanks and thanks to other posters. I’d be way way below that lower temperature in a North facing garage in January. Presumably although I got gravity readings and the beer cleared I hadn’t twigged the diacetyl rest needed to be longer! Does everyone just raise their temps at the end whatever...

Ok brewed an all grain using the Wilko English ale yeast. It cleared as expected and hit the expected gravity reading. FV the garage for 2 weeks in the primary ( pretty cold). 2weeks carbonation. It’s drinkable and I initially thought it was fruity but I’m leaning towards butterscotch. I can...

The first thing I did was I went out and got another pasta pot from Sainsbury’s (£18). These are just over 6L to the brim and worked well for me so will aim for 10L batches. On recipes I have the Greg Hughes book.

Of the 4.5L I managed to bottle only 7 500ml bottles. However, I tasted the hydrometer sample and dregs and wow it’s totally different beast to my extract brew! It was meant to be a 3 hop IPA but tasting there’s a fruityness complex layers of flavours that seems to change in the mouth. I’m not...

I had a go at an all grain IPA kit I received for Christmas. I used a pasta pot from Sainsbury’s (6L) with a hop bag from Wilko. The kit included 1.4kg of mixed malts. I think I made an error as after sparging with 1L I measured the pre boil gravity as 1.03 at 5.5L. I tasted the wort and it was...

Do you Sparge ? I’ve changed my mind and think a 27L mulled wine warmer with timer (temp can be set from 30-100C) is a better option with the temp control so can be used as a boiler.

Ta. Sorry a tad slow yesterday. Aww so when I thought all-grain I thought the 3 vessel setup (with pulleys and all sorts) but clearly an interesting branch in BIAB.I’ll take a look.

Yeah I estimate the basket has a capacity of about 4L to top.

Hi, Completed a kit and it worked Better than expected. Looking to go all-grain but have no equipment. Seen videos with people using an army of pots and tubes. I’ve found a 16L coffee filter machine from Royal Catering ( RCKM-20). A few things are not right like the temperature set (would...

Cheers I will get a filter. Just to add tasted the hopped batch early. Although it still needs a bit of time to clear it’s clearing faster than expected. Fully carbonated (flip tops popped). I used 1/2 teaspoon for 500ml. Taste wise nice hop aroma and a strong grapefruit taste, very malty. Not...

Thanks. I dry hopped for a few days. I decided to just throw them hops in loose and I would bottle after 4days. To filter I added a square of sanitised net curtain into the siphon end bit . This seemed to leave the hops behind (although I did accidentally disturb the trub when I tried at first...

I need to get some starsan. Any high street sources ? Wilko ? I’m currently using Milton baby sanitiser tablets.

Label removing morning. The labels come off very easily on those Aldi Das Helle’s. The beer doesn’t taste that great though! Edit: Brewdog labels also came off very nicely. I’m unsure if the grimbergen bottles are less coloured or thin? (Ripe for the bin)