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Thanks! Hopefully the taste will be worthy of the name :)

Nice looking recipe YF I am a big fan of Rye in beers myself, planning on a version of my Rye IPA using Falconers Flight 7Cs mostly so I can call it '7 C's of Rye'! Your numbers are all pretty close to mine, it should be a cracker especially with those hops....:thumb:

Review so far here: http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=575353#post575353

Had my competition prize arrive today so will use this thread to post a detailed review for anyone who is interested in purchasing one. This first bit will just cover initial impressions and testing as I haven't been able to set it up properly yet. Out of the box it looks good and appears...

Love this idea, seems to solve a lot of the issues that can come about with the other methods.

Man that sucks! Good heads up about the fruit though, I suppose all you need is one manky Apple or whatever and there's going to be spores galore up in the air

Bummer! What happened to the SN? Seems we are both doomed with that one :doh:

Indeed I am always caught between trying to use up the existing stocks and wanting to try out the new and exciting hops I just bought. Another 5 packs turned up in the post yesterday :doh: I would recommend the Wakatu if you want something that's a bit of a new world old world crossover, I...

Went for 18 and that was based on some of your comments regarding the esters. Seems a nice balance of fruit and malt at that temp. Sounds like it's very temperature dependent for ester production

Update on a couple of the beers for anyone whose interested! Both these served from the kegs which is great at this time of year when I can keep the shed at a nice cellar like temperature. The wakatu pale came out pretty well, smooth zesty and refreshing with a dry finish. Pretty hoppy as you...

Thanks chaps, I shall swap out the ITC 1000 for this on my brew fridge and give it a road test asap. I'll do a post/review about it as well :thumb:

It would make sense to me that the greater surface area with pellet hops could potentially infuse more flavour, I also have a preference for pellets in dry hop because they settle out at the bottom of FV (quicker with cold crash) and dont seem to retain as much beer as whole hops. But I still...

Either is fine, pros and cons for both.

Wow thanks Inkbird this is great!

My brain hurts, gonna skip the brewfridge and shove the FV in the airing cupboard......:doh:

Carbonate reducing solution, a blend of acids used for reducing alkalinity you can buy it from most of the homebrew shops online. Other acids such as lactic or phosphoric can also be used. In my experiments I didn't see a jump in efficiency but in theory this can happen and is certainly...

on the whole i would agree but I did enjoy the 9 English Hop beer and I liked the ones st austell have done for them too

Where's the plum flavour going to come from? Is that a characteristic of this special B stuff?

No problem, agree anglian seem quite good for providing water profiles the report off the website had all the important information and more and at least in terms of alkalinity has proven to be pretty accurate. My alkalinity seems to be fairly stable around 200 usually but I have had it measure...

I must also respectfully disagree. Because it takes a lot of heat/cooling for the wort to change temp you actually want the air temp to overshoot the target up or down or it will take a lot longer for the liquid temp to change. The heater/fridge will raise or drop air temp very quickly and cut...