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Hi Yes - I just added water during the boil. This is the way I have always done it on my system and has the numbers have worked fine using Barley-malts in the past. I agree the calculator predicted 23L in the fermentor after a kettle dead-space loss of 7L. If I had left that 7L in the kettle I...

Thanks for your inputs - From your experience do you agree with the mash temperature/duration/pH for weis beer?

In the past I have not found the need to spare much in my system so I did a token 3L (maybe this is part of the issue but I doubt all of it) - I then progressively added the difference of water during the boil to target a final gravity of 1045.

It’s hard to get all of the info across clearly here but I have a 7L kettle loss so starting with 39L: Grain loss= -4.3L Boil-off= -4.8L Gives amount in kettle ~30L @1045 (Calc); I ended up with ~20L @ 1045 (actual) Here is the discrepancy because this forced me to (precariously) tip out the...

I was expecting to use 39L total water (pre-losses ) based on the result from the BrewersFriend calculator. Yes did iodine test on the wort and was ok. I guess because of the discrepancies and “me not knowing what to expect with wheat malt” had me confused. Thanks - I’ll dig a bit deeper with...

I checked my notes and I got 24L@1044 pre-boil and as you correctly point out this will never achieve my target volume. Realistically I was expecting (quick calc) 1053 pre-boil so after adding extra liqour I would end up at 1045. Something went wrong in the Mash process or maybe I am doing...

Hi - Was 70min boil. I have a reasonable handle on my losses based on previous brews but I may be missing something: Grain loss ~0.75l/kg grain Boil-Off=6L (70mins boil) I tend to keep an eye on the gravity during the boil and add water as necessary to meet the FG.

I use a Recirculating mash (Braumeister) and added 27L for the mash then did a sparse with 3L - Up till now I have rarely sparged as the efficiency had been very good.

Hi All - I’ve never used wheat malt before so thought I’d try a simple Belgian Witbier recipe as a start. I’m kind of aware that wheat-malt does not convert as easily as Maris Otter for example. Anyway I scaled the recipe so that I should have finished with 29L of wort in the kettle @1045...

I’m a bit behind on this one so may or not be useful input: I have the 3-tap Grainfather Kegerator and noticed the steady temperature inside was quite a bit warmer than displayed on the flashy blue display so decided to do some tests - Set controller to 0C and measured (2-thermometers) stable...

Hi Cheshire Cat - I would be interested in your recipe for this if poss!? Have you done this one before? Thanks

One of the best bit of advice I was given was to crank pressure up to 30psi to seat the o-ring and seal. Having said that had a case where the cap was misalighned and slowly leaked- Fixed by loosening and re-jiggled before pressurising again.

Ogmore CF32

Just for the record @foxbat this has turned out uncannily similar to Harveys Best Bitter - so much so I surprised myself. Whoever recommended using Mangrove Jack M36 was spot-on with undertones of banana...

I took recommendations from several different posts online and tried to keep it simple (1st brew with my new kit): 4kg Maris Otter 250g Crystal (400) 25g Progress @60 25g Bramling Cross @30 15g each Fuggles & EKG at end of boil There was a post showing Harveys use sugar but I was always...

An attempt to clone Harveys Best Bitter. Colour is about right ...

Thanks it’s good to be on the Forum - Lots of interesting stuff on here The book was 1st published in 1978 and he talks of refining his recipes over the previous 20 years so that makes a lot of sense about the post war austerity years. I think I will maybe start with one of his recipes and see...

After about 25 years since I last brewed I’m returning to it and have been amazed how the equipment available to the home brewer has moved on. All of the recipes I brewed then were from Dave Line’s book (Brewing Beers Like those you Buy) and enjoyed “attempting” to recreate my favourites brews...