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I bought a King Keg top tap 30 years ago and not sure if I ever used it. I only did 2 or 3 brews before work got the better of me. Starting up again a year ago I got all my stiff out of the loft but having got a corny keg am unlikely to need it. I took the washer for my bottling bucket. £20...

Yesterday started my Festival Golden Stagg. My last kit maybe (?) - going BIAB AG after this. I rehydrated the yeast for the first time in 28c water (boiled and cooled, sprinkle yeast and cover, 15 minutes, stir, and pitch after another 15 minutes). I got airlock activity sub 10 second bubbling...

21 Litres of Festival Razorback Total 5,935

No it wasn’t taken that way - it’s me wondering what I’m doing wrong! One more kit to do (Festival Golden Stagg) then I’m going to try Clibit’s simple AG method and hopefully move forward from there. I use a Chronical fermenter so very little wort in contact with the trub, but I had the same...

I’m in

You want to disturb as little as possible but I have had to stir a few, stuck several points above anticipated FG. I sterilise the paddle, open the lid gently to leave as much CO2 sitting above the wort as I can and very gently stir so as not to oxygenate at the surface. I waft the paddle just...

I can’t express preference as I haven’t had a fully conditioned Youngs - but at this early stage I preferred the Razorback. I shared my last bottle of Razorback at 6 months of conditioning with my cousin - who likes his beer. We started with a Presidents Sierra APA which we both liked but agreed...

My Young’s AIPA finished at 1.0065 ish after 40 days and the Razorback at 1.006 after 32 days. I am doing the Razorback again and yesterday it was at 1.006 after 31 days. Nearly stopped today. I have been wondering why my brews take so long - only the Cwtch has finished inside 2 weeks for me -...

DENSE 😂😂😁

NPi did I misunderstand the sell off of large pub chains by their brewery owners - hived off to newly formed big pub companies run by venture capitalists? I thought that big breweries couldn’t own large numbers of pubs these days under a competition commission ruling. Small breweries with a few...

I will admit I knew nothing about the route to removing a tie so thanks for the link - but the article points out that it can cost £100,000 to get out of the tie, that it is not worth doing for pubs with less than £1m annual turnover, and that if you are successful your landlord might seek...

I think that making the tie illegal would have a much bigger and better effect.....

I forgot to mention water (will edit the post to include the following). Good drinkable tap water is generally fine, but if it is high in chlorine you should add a Camden tablet the night before. I use bottled water - Tesco Ashbeck is the go to water, but have also used their cheapest...

Am I right in thinking that you want to start with a simple extract kit to start with rather than jumping straight in to brewing from grain Seagate (like most of us do)? Im still at that stage and hope to jump to all grain in the next year or so. If that is the case then start with cheap, simple...

That was 50g of hops. They were wetted through, but it was a really dense clump when I pulled it out which must have reduced contact. I actually sterilised a glove and gave it a gentle squeeze!

I used one Sainsbury’s veg bag tied with fine fishing line the lines trapped by the rubber bung and teaspoons in the bag to weigh them down. Each day I would gently raise and lower the bag to get wort flowing through. However when finished I was amazed how much the pellets had swelled and how...

Earl Grey. I had my *** yesterday and read advice to not drink alcohol for 2 weeks as it’s possible (not definite) that it could interfere with your immune response. I’m sure nobody’s interested in the Earl Grey, but various friends had not read this alcohol advice so I thought I would post it...

Yes please......

I did taste the dregs: really murky, but tasted absolutely superb! At this stage the best tasting of the 8 or so kits I’ve now done. Give it another go! The only one I have ditched was the first one that I started in the heat wave last year and the temperatures were all over the place. I can now...