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You're supposed to clean it first? I use the Brewfather preset and have found it to be impressively accurate. The only thing I change is that I often hold 3 - 4 litres of water back for the boil then add some/all of it afterwards to dilute down to my target OG. Others may be less scared/risk...

When the mash is complete I increase the temperature to 75 degrees. Its probably not necessary but my first couple of brews had a starch haze. Why is it necessary to sparge slowly? Isn't the purpose of the top screen to hold the water back so that the amount that goes through the holes flows at...

Yes, the formula should still work because you've done the same thing that would have happened if everything had worked properly. Disclaimer: What follows is, I believe, largely correct but is based on my understanding of the process. If anyone wiser than me spots an error please correct it...

ABV in homebrew environments is usually calculated using the formula (OG - FG) * 131.25 but remember to include the decimal point after the 1. There are also several online calculators available. The cloudiness is less easy to resolve as it depends on what's causing it. Assuming high quality...

Thanks for the replies. The consensus seems to be that there is a risk of grain particles being recirculated, although I'm not sure why that would be an issue; because it might block the pump? In my set up the grains would be prevented from recirculating by the small sieve sitting over the pump...

I have a Robobrew but I guess the same (probably daft) question applies to most all in one systems. I've seen loads of posts here and elsewhere saying that the recirculation flow rate should be adjusted so that wort doesn't go down the central overflow. That kind of makes intuitive sense - if...

As I understand it "Robobrew" was the original name for what is now known as "Brewzilla"

Yep, agree with this. Go for the biggest that you've got room for/can afford I disagree with this. Well, sort of. *Any* cleaning is a pain but the Brewzilla is a lot easier to clean than the multitude of plastic buckets that I had when I was home brewing years ago. Plus it can be done in stages...

I spoke to Crisp who were very helpful and informative. As others have pointed out the value in the Brewfather inventory is wrong. I had a quick look and couldn't find any other malts with this value supplied so I deleted it from the extra pale and the warning is gone. The email that Crisp sent...

I ordered a 25kg sack of pale malt but the shop sent extra pale by mistake. I kept it thinking that the only difference between them would be the colour but that appears to not be the case. I'm formulating a recipe in Brewfather using 4.5kg of the extra pale but it comes up with an orange...

Yeah, that's why I shared it 👍 On the plus side the kitchen is the cleanest it's been for weeks

Not today but my two most recent brews: Transferring the finished beer to keg I was struck by how much was left in the fermenter when the keg was full. Initially I put it down to my adding the latest wort to the just emptied fermenter with the surplus being what was left of the previous batch...

I guess your best bet is either a Hambleton Bard S30 or a soda stream but that's not the end of the matter. You'll need some sort of adapter to attach them to the gas inlet post and you should really have a regulator. That said, I never had a regulator when I used the S30 to pressurise my old...

Is that profile something you created yourself? I can't see it in Brewfather. I use the one below it Brewzilla/Robobrew 35l, which has always (all 5 times!) produced good results for me. Inputting 7kg of grain under this profile (and nothing else - I was just interested in what the suggested...

A post script: As I suggested in my previous post, I transferred the cloudy cider into a spare keg leaving behind a lot of loose, almost liquid yeast at the bottom of the first keg. I also added some isinglass that I happened to have in the fridge to the second keg. Five days later its crystal...

I made around 23 litres of cider from supermarket juice and kegged it on 12/01/2021. At the same time I also filled a 2 litre PET bottle. The cider in the bottle is crystal clear and has been for 5 or 6 days now but the cider in the keg is still densely turbid. A couple of days ago I drew off a...

Welcome. Which Newcastle?

Thanks. I've now managed to find a shop selling Acesulfame: Acesulphame K Sweetener 70g Whether the yeast is M02 or not I was very impressed with it, although I was initially a bit concerned at the way the head kept collapsing into the apple juice then reforming, but the results were...

And she's got back to me. The sweetener is acesulsame but they didn't want to tell me how much was in the packet. It probably doesn't matter because it doesn't appear to be retailed and I don't want to be importing industrial quantities from China. So I guess the question now is which sweetener...

It did, so I rang and a very helpful lady has gone away to find the answer to the question.