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High temperatures do not mean you can't brew, it means you can't control the taste. Changing yeast will change the taste, so you can't experiment in hot weather without a brew fridge, because you don't know if the change in taste is due to temperature or some other change. Early days I would...

I found my mothers freezer had a faulty thermostat, so thought I would just buy a new one, however every local place dealing with fridge and freezer repairs did not run from premises but from a van, and wanted £60 call out plus parts used and any time over first hour. Freezer was £100 new...

8W bulb. The problem is the heavier the heater the more heat it retains after being switched off, so you want something light, also as the heater gets larger so hysteresis increases, so needs to be a low wattage, putting the heater inside the brew like with a aquarium heater ensures fast...

Seems not selling now down to £9.99

I will admit temperature control for me is something I got wrong. I thought I would only need heat, that was a mistake, I thought the cooler I held it but still fermenting the better, got that wrong as well. Problem is to work out what is required one has to do the same brew over and over again...

Neither did mine, he was TT.

I tried two lager kits, one as instructions 20 deg C other tried to lager the latter a complete failure. Problem is we don't boil water used for kits, does not matter how clean there will be bugs, so you need the fermenting to start quickly and the alcohol then kills the bugs. So with kits 19...

I live not far away in Mold and my wife also wanted me out of the kitchen, 200 watt seems over kill. So I will tell you what I did and found as you may be able to copy some of it. The fridge/freezer was condemned as insulation had failed causing huge lumps of ice to form in fridge, so instead of...

I plan on 20 days in all. First 10 days in the freezer with both cooling and heating, second 10 days in fridge with only heating. I am using a fridge/freezer. The first 10 days around the 19 deg mark, second 10 days around 22 degree mark. I found on starting to use a brew fridge things did not...

I use plastic bottles, I like the 500 ml but never have enough, so most in 2 litre bottles, bottling with 2 litre is quick, and if you make an error and bottle too easy you can feel the pressure and release a bit without recapping. I found you need 9 inches bottom of fermenter to top of...

Likely there are four stages to brewing. 1) The one can kit, cheap and how most start. 2) The two can kit, better quality, most I am sure progress to this. 3) The one can kit, returning to the one can kit allows one to select different fermentables. 4) The grain. The grain brewing can also be...

Skunked beer is a smell rather than a flavour and as a result while in the fermenter it's not a problem as the smell can escape. OK smells are flavours in a way as we can only smell things which will devolve in water, however some beers are supplied in clear bottles so some brewers have found a...

I would say cost depends on what is on offer, for a time Morrisons did kits for less than £7 a can, at Christmas I got kits from Tesco you order on line and collect from shop so no postage, Wilko do deals I got some kits at £10 each, even local brew shop often sells of out of date stuff...

Does it matter? The idea is to be understood by the reader, now if you say desimate and mean to get rid of one in ten but the reader thinks it means get rid of near everything then there is a problem. But I have not seen any one say I have put my fermenters (yeast) into my fermentor, we would...

The bad head in morning seems to be dependent on beer type rather than how much drunk.

Is a fungus plant or animal? Not sure if they can eat yeast? Also the fish bits settle out, so are not in the final drink.

The point is you have added not simple sugar. With simple sugar end s.g. would likely be 1.010 or lower but with 1 kg of spray dried malt plus brewing sugar you will get more body to the brew with less of the ingredients fermenting. This is what Coopers think it should be. Australian Pale Ale...

Youngs Harvest has a range of bitters, the Yorkshire Bitter was the most bitter, then the Bitter, and the Scottish Heavy was the smoothest of the three, the latter was to have 1.5 kg of sugar the other two just 1 kg of sugar. Of the three done as instructions the Scottish Heavy was more to my...

I think as said time is important, at the moment drinking beer made in November 2015, the problem is remembering what you did, so you taste one which is great, then can't do it again because your notes are not good enough. I find doing the same kit over and over again, Scottish heavy, I get...

I am sure one could design a really good temperature controller for brewing. Once one has a coolant filled jacket with some sort of header tank one can have solenoids and pumps with a small refrigeration unit, immersion heater and radiator and a PLC or other programmer to select if refrigeration...