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Yeah, it's a good book to learn the basics from. Then buy more books to learn even more and get more inspiration. Always room for more brewing books I say. lol Yeah, sometimes he just seems to put more and more in for the heck of it, to see how far he can go. All I can think of is that he's...

Yeah, I know the one you mean. I seem to remember basing a few brews on that grist, just different hopping, and I may have tweaked the grist a bit... lol

No, the pumps on these machines (any of them) just don't have the power to whirlpool properly. There's nothing sticking out though particularly, so a good swirl with a mash paddle is very easy to do. You'd have to use a different pump though if you wanted to whirlpool with a pump, one with...

No need for mash out AND dunk sparge if you use warmer water for the dunk sparge really, will do the same job. You'd probably get more from a longer mash than you would from doing a mash out to be honest. That's what I found anyway. If you do do one, raise the bag whilst you heat the wort to...

I blame the countless, badly written, articles floating around right now about how they took up brewing during lockdown.... Every single one of them that I have read talks about boiling grains in the bag etc etc at some point, almost like they're confusing brew in a bag with boil in the bag...

Luckily I now brew outside, as yeah, there was wort everywhere.... But yeah, you get it. lol If you like a good IPA, try the DIYDog Elvis Juice. If you don't like grapefruit, skip that, if you do then add some Malt Miller cold pressed grapefruit extract 1ml per litre. Recipe calls for orange...

I just boiled normal water in my new machine, ran it through the pump and pipework for a while etc, then ran cold through a few times too, rinsed it all well. Did the job, as my first brew in it came out delicious, even though the brew day was a catalogue of disasters. :laugh8: It'd been a...

Yeah, I've got one, the small one. Been brewing full volume though. Works nicely, but recommend buying a malt mill if going for one. The holes in the bottom of the grain basket are of a size where you get a lot of particles going straight through, blocking the pipes up, if you buy ready...

Just be thorough with your washing and rinsing is my advice. My last rig was a DIY one, cut the holes myself etc (brew builder stockpot, got my fittings from there too, and I think I got my cutters from him as well possibly), and to be honest I don't think I was thorough enough. My first brew...

You just made an assumption, an incorrect one, that that was what I was doing. No, I was calling teachers I met, and who taught our oldest, second oldest, and youngest, dumb and lazy. Because they were and probably still are dumb and lazy. Which was why we pulled them out of their schools and...

Our local council are worried we're facing a local lockdown here soon, as basically since pubs opened, then schools, infection rates have gone up and up and up... Only recently, a school not far from us the entirety of their year 3 has had to go into self isolation as so many of the students in...

Mine are now, it's the so called groups on there, they make a forum like this look like a polite group of friendly folks who never disagree about anything... 😜 That said, the Steam forums, oh by the gods, the Steam forums.... lol If all you do with it is talk to real life friends though...

They already have plans in place to shift to a rota system, half in, half out, should infections in secondary schools spike too far. They had it in place before they opened the schools fully again. Don't panic Chippy, that's all I am going to say, straight facts. :laugh8:

lol Glad you saw the funny side as intended. athumb.. As to no social media, don't blame you, nothing to do with privacy concerns either, just that it's usually a poop show of bullying and ego on there.... :laugh8: Then the folks who were friends start using their accounts to advertise the...

One of the theories is that testing is picking up fragments of "dead" virus from old infections, as in people who had very mild cases and didn't even realise, then catch a cold or something so get tested, test comes up positive as it detects remnants from when they did have covid. So infection...

Easiest way is if you have a smartphone, just get the DPD app, put your details in, check it. He uses DPD, so if your order has been shipped it'll be right there on the DPD app for you to see and track. The Malt Miller, Get Er Brewed and The Homebrew Company also use DPD (as to some Amazon...

I used to use Brupaks Antifoam if you're having trouble. Mix it with water in a sprayer and just spray the foam a couple of times when it starts to foam up, and no more foam up. Didn't seem to effect the finished beer. I don't use it any more though as I have more room in my boiler as I brew...

"Proper" whirlpooling, with a good powerful pump or with a good stirring with a paddle, is supposed to create a vortex effect in the wort before you transfer to FV, leading to trub and hop matter settling out in a nice little cone in the middle of the boiler, so you can then pull the wort from...

I do have another pump, but don't use it as to me it defeats the object of getting an all in one machine. I know it's not the same machine, but betting that none of them have pumps up to the job of properly doing a whirlpool at this kind of price point. I don't have a whirlpool arm either...