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Hi @aamcle As has been said, the Brewferm kits make great beer, but you do really need to give them plenty of time to condition ... 6 months is about a minimum ... so it's probably too late for this Xmas :?: If you're just looking to make an extra 10-ish litres, I'd suggest you'd be best off...

I've not read the book yet either, but I've been reading Pete Brown's work for a while now and like his writing style enough to be easily convinced to read anything else he puts out ... so thanks for the pointer athumb.. He may not have mentioned the experience he had in Chesterfield a few...

... well, you say that now ... but post 55 in this thread (link) reads very much like a self-measured (unverified) declaration of 11 inches :?: :?: We can switch to the pi$$ing contest metaphor if you prefer, either by volume or highest up the wall ... but its important that those who indulge...

... it is a very weird trend :confused.: ... there's a very good post on Martin Cornell's blog that discusses the phenomenon there (link), complete with images of "then" and "now" pump clips :?: Cheers, PhilB

Hi An Ankou There's a "Can you Brew It" episode dedicated to putting together a clone recipe ... Can You Brew It: Lagunitas Little Sumpin - The Jamil Show 12-20-10 | The Brewing Network ... and I believe that (link) ... is the recipe Jamil finally settled on :hat: Oh, but sorry, no I can't...

I also regularly get my base malt from Staffs Brewery ... my "usual" order is 1x25kg of Maris Otter and 1x25kg of Lager Malt, even with the £5 per sack small-order "handling charge" it still ends up much cheaper than you can get elsewhere, and then I'll put together an online order for other...

... some are, some aren't ... just like some who declare themselves as "chillers" will be using PBW'd and autoclaved counter-flow plate chillers, whilst others will utilise a fat, sweaty brewer frantically stirring their cooling wort over the coils of their immersion chiller in an open pan...

Hi Anna Mostly, your review higher up in the thread is a sensible summary of the pros and cons of no chilling ... increased risk of DME breaching taste thresholds, increased risk of continued alpha-acid isomerisation from late hop additions changing flavour profile, reduced brewer involvement...

Hi @The Cat Yes, that's the idea ... boil ALL of the hops in HALF the water and HALF the DME, according to the timings in the recipe, then cool your wort and transfer to your FV ... where you'll add the other HALF of your DME and top up to the FULL volume athumb.. Cheers, PhilB

... that's really useful to know ... I've not brewed a kit for ages, although when I first started brewing AG I did say I wouldn't let it stop me brewing the odd kit every so often :?: ... but the positive reviews of this kit had convinced me to add one to my last ingredients order, and I put...

... this is the part of this new story that worries me most ... I'm sure we've all found ourselves driving along remote roads in bad weather, at some time(s) or other, hoping and a praying that we don't breakdown, and reassuring ourselves (and possibly others, as necessary) that we have...

Hi ... no, the key to not needing to do that is this bit of my previous message (sorry if I overloaded you with info wink...) ... ... because you're boiling the same proportion of your extract to the proportion of the volume of water you're boiling it in it'll end up the same (or similar)...

Hi @The Cat Yep, definitely hooked now, and it looks like you're making purchases already thinking about stepping into AG athumb.. ... even so, like Cheshire Cat suggests, there's little benefit to boiling your extract when making extract brews ... and many extract brewers take advantage of...

Hi ... and I'm sure @terrym will come along and disagree with me if he thinks I'm wrong on this, but ... steeping crystal malt (and/or cara-malts, roasted malts ... stuff generally know as "speciality malts") isn't that temperature dependant ... when mashing base-malts maintaining the...

Hi @Racehunter and @Gerryjo As a general rule of thumb, for mash-tun sizing, dry grain displaces around 0.75lts/kg of water ... so 150g of grain in say 375ml of water (2.5 lts/kg) will end up as just under a half a litre of mash ... I occasionally do a mash just a little bigger than this in a...

... and I still don't see anything there that is left vague ... what is it that you think is not clear? Cheers, PhilB

... it seems I mis-remembered that ... the exemption for small scale cider producers has been in the legislation since 1976 ... the fuss I was thinking about was when the EU threatened to ban it, and the mighty Camer-Osborne sent them packing link Cheers, PhilB

... I don't think it is, but maybe I've been spending too much time with "legal-eagles" recently and I've started understanding how they write things :?: ... higher up the page you linked to it defines what cider is and when it becomes applicable to duty ... Cider Duty Duty is charged on...

Hi @Chippy_Tea ... as the many threads discussing the sale of the products of our "hobby", on this forum and others, will testify ... as often as not, it isn't the registration with HMRC and the paying of Duty that is the "blocker" to plans to do that, but the "hoops" with environmental health...

... and maybe that statement illustrates what I think is the problem ... too much emphasis on brewery engineering, and not enough on brewing :confused.: ... ... so here's a thought, if setting your Robobrew to mash at 69C consistently results in FGs of 1.007-8 when you were hoping for 1.010-12...