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I think your right JP, just tried the Sierra Nevada clone last night, its been in the bottle for just over 2 weeks so it has time to improve but it was lush. Will try it out of the cornie at the weekend as my summer bitter cornie should be just about empty and ready to receive the next brew. I...

Some of my work colleagues are physicists, I've posed them the following question. :D "Scenario :- a liquid (beer wort) is being cooled by passing it through a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is a plate heat exchanger which has cooling water of a constant input temp and flow that is lower...

There's a good chance of them smelling it, especially if the wind is in the wrong direction, would your neighbours ignore it for the occasional bottle of homebrew? If not boil some cabbage in your garage until they scream for you to start brewing :D

Seeing as sports drinks are 99% marketing and 1% science, and all taste crap, I was wondering if there would be a market for a mildly alcoholic hypotonic ale that tasted half decent, might as well as enjoy yourself while being fleeced. An isotonic drink has to have similar salt and sugar levels...

No knocking intended :D just remembered the name of the pub - the Wayfarers. seems to have had a 750K refurb, looks a bit posher than it was in my day. :roll:

Welcome aboard :cheers: I spent a large part of my late teens at the BT training centre just outside Stone. Large facility with several thousand engineers away from home for a couple of weeks. Happy days, I seem to remember the local pub was quite sedate but a pub about a mile away used to be...

this is similar to what I bought - I got 5 for 25 quid - there are loads around som probably somebody selling them near you as carriage is expensive.

Thanks for that Aleman :D - looks like I'll continue doing what I'm doing and just wait a little longer. If WLP810 turns out to be as versatile a yeast as the feedback then I may use this as my preferred yeast as there will be no need to use a FV cupboard for keeping the temp up. I'll need...

I use ex-sweet containers - big blue tubs about 35 litres each, lids have big metal sprung clamps to hold them on, I think they were about 5 quid each off fleabay but I collected them to save cost - somewhere near Selby.

Sounds like we concur :cheers: I feel better now - just thought I may have been missing a trick :D

I've been fermenting on the cold break since moving to the new shiny. So far I've done 5 brews. The first two were pants due to a metallic taint caused by flux from the soldering process and/or keeping a starsan solution (slightly acidic) in the plate heat exchanger - with copper and steel and...

Bru4u, whirlpool? do you mean give it a good stir to get the cold break to settle out? :D What do you use post fermentation for filtering? Cheers NB

Cheers - I have an Aleman designed hop filter so should be good to go this way, but of a pain to take it apart and clean it but its never got blocked so far.

Just wondering how others do this. Currently I cool the post boil wort through the plate heat exchanger directly into the FV, benefits is ease/speed of use and not disturbing the hot break however on the last 80L brew I took about 4L of cold break out of the bottom of the conical FV. The PHE...

Thanks Pitsy - I had a few SWMBO moments financing it- however I pointed out that the total cost was but a fraction of the neighbours mid-life crisis sports car - probably less than a service, and he looks a pillock in it with his flat cap on :D Making it yourself certainly lowers the cost...

Doh - was beaten to it http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=28944&start=0

my thoughts exactly - no or little enzymes in crystal. What was the OG?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19454412

If it does I'll rename it **** Ale ;) A slightly different angle on an old joke Me - do you like chicken? SWMBO - yes Me - well drink this its fowl :D

Here's the photos the starter - note the high tech method of sealing the aeration pipe ;) The grain bill doughing in recirculating the mash sparge the pirate who brought the precious Nelson Sauvin all the way from New Zealand the boil - you could see the lupilin staining the...