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I've got a vanilla choc stout fermenting at the mo and drew a sample so i could forecast how much vanilla i'd need and settled for 12ml in an 8L batch, I found that to be just right not overpowering nor too weak!

There’s a few spots on my vanilla choc stout krausen that look quite odd, as a newbie this doesn’t look right to me but to some of you chaps might say it’s normal. The Double choc one on the other hand is going along nicely!

Thanks for all the help / advice!! :)

Happy Thursday all! Now a few evenings a go i ordered 3 packets of Crossmyloof us-Pale Ale Yeast, it was my error due to amazons one click purchasing i ordered this instead of the real ale yeast. I plan to use a stout beer kit tomorrow and was curious as to if i make a starter would the yeast i...

I opted for beer enhancer as medium DME was out of stock they're near enough the same thing, so hopefully it turns out good. I was thinking either splitting vanilla pods and letting them soak in vodka for a few days and the double choc one there's a product called choc shot (link below) it's...

Good Evening all, with regards to splitting one can kits... would it be possible to warm 4 litres of water (to 'dissolve' the kit) and then split the 4 litres between two fermenters? I've just bought Chocmeister from wilkos new range and want to brew two lots of 9L it's supposed to be a 22L kit...

I've ordered the Chocmeister stout kit plus 1kg of beer enhancer as i didn't think the Medium DME would do much for it, plan to split it into 2 9L batches making one as a double choc and the other vanilla choc! Given the current time of year i think these will be my Christmas beers!

Using Safale-05 and my recipe was 1.5kg Maris Otter and 16g of Galaxy Hops (4,4,8) after boil off i was 1 litre under due to initial error on my behalf so i added 1 additional litre to the fermenter 1.5kg maris otter steeped at 65-67c small sparge of 500ml 60 min boil hops at 60,30,15 mins...

Hello Everyone! The other day I embarked on my first all grain brew, I had an issue initially with keeping the mash temp at 67c but managed eventually to maintain it. I made a Galaxy Smash (maris otter) and aimed for an 8L batch, OG read 1.042 and today 6 days later reads 1.005. The only issue i...