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Cheers Gerry, it's a good plan. How much Orange Peel should I be using? Also, should i not boil the Orange at least for a little while to Sanitize it? Finally is that 10g each of Amarillo and Citra or 10g total? (sorry for all the basic questions) I'll just be using a leftover packet of...

Any advice on quantities? I'm planning a bigger Candied Orange IPA in the not too distant future, so it would be good practice.

Hi All, My 5l Demijohn is due to come free next week. I've got some spare odds and sods i'd like to use up. I've got about a kilo of Light DME that I figure would serve as a base. I was thinking of adding a 400g tin on Golden Syrup to that. I've got a heap of hops doing nothing; some Cascade...

Thought I'd provide an update on this. Colour hasn't really changed; it looks sort of red if you hold it up to the light. Is a pretty nice beer to drink actually, not much too it though.

Brewed my first ever AG brew yesterday. 5l SMASH - Extra Pale Maris Otter and Cascade Hops. 1KG Grain, 7g Hops for 60 mins 7g Hops for 15 mins 7g Hops at Flameout (15 minute steep). 6g dry yeast (leftover from a kit so I presume it's Nottingham). Forgot to take a gravity reading. Bubbling up...

Hi Everyone, I mostly brew beer, but i'm interested in moving over to wines too. Can any recommend a simple Wine Kit which is Vegetarian or Vegan. I've got a demijohn set aside for making wine so it should be for 5l. The wilko ones all contain Crustaceans, so they're a no go. Please and...

I'm looking at adding coconut to a i'm brewing. As far as i can tell, toasted flakes/chips at the Secondary Fermentation stage is the way to go. Just wondering where people generally buy these from? Had a bit of a look online, the price of 500g is coming in at around £5.99 with postage. Without...

I'm in. Please and thanks.

Hi Everyone, I recently brewed a batch of the St Peter's Ruby Red Ale kit. It's reaching the end of it's conditioning cycle. My only deviation from the kit was to use S-O4 yeast instead of the supplied yeast. When i bottled it up it tasted okay if a little bland. I haven't tasted a bottle...

Welcome! I'm pretty rookie too, so no doubt the more experienced members will offer better advice. For your situation I'd consider adding another 500g - 1kg Light DME (OR a lot of places do the Mangrove Jacks 1.2 kg LME for £4.99 which will serve the same purpose). This should improve the...

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Any chance you could link me to it online?

Hi All, Considering building myself a Mash Tun in the near future. I'm going to loosely follow *these* instructions: https://www.instructables.com/id/Build-Your-Own-Brewery-for-Under-100-STEP-1-/ I'm thinking it might be better to use a cool box and some copper piping than the stacked FV's...

It's a good beer. Count me in.

Not much of an expert, so feel free to take my advice with a pinch of salt. As others have said I'd advise perhaps using Brew Enhancer (50/50 Light DME and Sugar) or even DME (I personally don't see the benefit in brewing sugar over table sugar) in at least one of the kits. I think table sugar...

Had a very similar experience of this. Made up with 1kg Light DME. Boiled 25g East Kent Golding hops for 5 mins in the brew water and then a further 25g added as a dry hop. Used S-04 yeast. Not bad, just very meh. I'm going to give the Mangrove Jack's Rustic Brown Ale kit a try for my next...

Update on this. Drank a couple of bottles of this on sunday; and i'm very impressed.

Thanks for the advice. I know i'm going to sound thick with this, but when you say 'squeezing' that's just to extract the water, not the cornflake mush? I (now) know a few cornflakes won't hurt, but i'm presuming a load of mush isn't what I want going into my FV?

Quick question. Recently did a golden ale. I haven't done anything resembling BIAB or all-grain before. I thought this beer may be nice with a cornflake addition. So i soaked 500g of cornflakes in 5l or so of 70-60 degree water for half an hour. My worry is that that the bag i used for this...