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3rd item: brown 330ml flip top bottles 2 types of bottle: 25 Flensburger bottles (left) 19 unbranded different shaped bottles (right)

2nd item: Trappistes Rochefort beer crate. Fits 24 (narrow) 330ml bottles. includes 18 empty Rochefort beer bottles (6s, 8s, and 10s) Does NOT include any lovely Rochefort beer, sorry.

1st item: ~60 clear glass 500ml bottles 50/50 Morlands and Badger bottles In storage boxes with lids (plus some extras in a carrier bag) Boxes fit 24 bottles on their sides, or 21 upright.

Free to Forum members as thanks for all the advice you've given me over the years. I'm having a garage clear out, and I've got a few bits and pieces of brewing gear to get rid of to make space. I was going to sell this stuff on eBay or Gumtree for a few quid, but to be perfectly honest I can't...

Don't worry, your wine will be fine. I wouldn't go to the trouble of splitting the brew into 2 batches. Just leave more headroom when you start the brew off. When you start it off, add a few litres less water, so the total volume in the fermentor is a few litres less than you had for this...

I have just spent the best part of the afternoon cleaning up after the exact same thing happened to me. I thought I'd left enough headroom, but this morning the airing cupboard looked like a slaughterhouse. Red foamy matter splattered all over (Sainsbury's Tropical plus Red Grape Juice). I...

Thanks @Poochops, I might have one more go at a quad this summer. I'll use your modified Candisyrup Rochefort-10 recipe, and add some carafa iii steepings if it is looking too pale. Plus extra yeast at bottling for carbonation?

Ask them to bring back a crate of Rochefort-10 to compare to your quad.

I used this recipe. Nice and simple and tasted great: http://www.makewine.co.nz/instructions-and-recipes/alcoholic-ginger-beer-recipe But be warned, despite some serious washing, the next three brews I did tasted of ginger.

I didn't think it was clear in Morton's recipe wether to use candy sugar crystals or syrup. I used syrup. My quad feeds a bit thin, and absolutely no head, even with the carbed bottles.

Thanks for posting updates about this brew. I love Rochefort-10 and have seen a few different recipes online. (Have you seen the recipe on the CandiSyrup.inc website?) I tried doing a quad last year after reading this thread. But I ended up doing the Belgian Quad from James Morton's book. I...

I've been looking for swing tops too, and found a few alternatives to Grolsh: Aldi do a German beer in 500ml swing tops from about October-December every year, look out for them in the special buys section. They are £2 each and the beer is pretty good. If you buy in bulk you can get 24 bottles...

That is one draw back that I have found too. My 500ml flip tops are too tall to fit in to my usual bottle boxes or crates. I think I'm going to buy a couple of the taller wine crates to keep them in (rather than the milk crate that I use at the moment). Edit: I've just read @simon41 's...

I bottled using swing tops for the first time a few weeks ago. I was amazed at the difference it made to bottling time. I think I'm going to phase out my capper and just use swing tops.

I think he might have meant that you may end up with relatively less volume due to different boil off rates with the smaller batch. Something to do with physics, and surface area, but I don't properly understand it. You can always add more water after the boil to get your FG back down to your...

And here he is today, fully grown, and with cheese drool almost to the floor. It's so hard to get a good photo of a dog that absorbs all light.

My black lab when he was a pup. The folks who had originally bought him didn't want him after he got his cool nose scar. Their loss, our gain. That's not my brew shed, in case anyone was wondering.

I did a brew this weekend and was determined to find the cause of the grain bed collapse. Of course it all went smoothly, no grain bed collapse, and lovely clear wort into the boil. But thanks for the tip. I will definitely keep an eye on the seal on the top plate.

Could it be something to do with the direction that my recirculation pipe points onto the top plate during the mash? Maybe washing away the grains under the top plate if pointing down too much and flow too fast??

Yes, exactly that. I stick them on the prongs on the lower shelf, and set the machine on the Eco cycle. @Leon103, I was also dubious about how much water would get inside the bottle, but it seems to work brilliantly. Even the ones where I have accidentally left yeast dried into a crud inside...