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Quick update: so I’ve come home from work today, dry Belgian yeast had arrived, I go to stick it in beer and I discover Krausen and the airlock is bubbling (bubble every 20-30s) - dilemma ! My gut says leave it be and don’t risk contam by openIng FV. Or do I pitch the additional yeast knowing...

Used by date was Dec 20, under pitch makes complete sense. Going to get some more yeast in there. Will keep you posted if I can bring her back from the brink!

Hi Zephyr, OG was 1.065 which was lower than planned but rather than monkey with it I thought I’d just go with it. It’s a small batch (13l) so I went with one pkt of abbey ale white labs wlp 530 no starter. Pitched at 21degs and it’s been at 22degs with little to no variation since Sunday 😬

Cheers Ian - got her at a solid 21deg C buts first time use of this bucket so fingers crossed I’ve got a leak!

Howdy folks, I’m eight batches in to my HB career. I’ve gone for a Belgian Golden Ale (Duvel clone recipe). Brewday was a dream, had the football on in the background and all went to plan. Just pitched my yeast and was moving the FV into the fermentation chamber and I got suck back on the...

Evening Gents thanks for the replies. I’m doing extract brewing to recipe and adding adjuncts for approx 30mins prior to the boil with LME so not kits and probably not mashing either by the sounds of it ? I was interested in the seasoning aspect of adding salts i.e. maltier or bitter. I’m using...

Hi guys, partial mashing on my 5th batch. Getting Into this hobby in my usual obsessive way. Question is: should I be bothering about water chemistry while partial mashing or is this for the All Grain realms only ? Cheers JP

I don’t take much convincing when I comes to brewing these days - ordered on amazon along with Palmer. Cheers JP

Greg Hughes book worth an amazon purchase? I’m currently Extract/Partial Mash brewer is it mostly All Grain? thanks JP

Brewed a partial mash Wee Heavy. It was a nice chilled morning and in the fermenter by mid day. 5th batch I’ve done and getting a good rhythm to the brew day. I Have dreams of All grain In the future. Czech Lager next so I have a selection for Christmas. Welcome any extract recipe...

Morning gents bit of an update/follow up question. So I decided against dry hopping as work went mental last week. Recipe said to single ferment and bottle after a week. I did this but got a FG of 1.022. Fear is this way too high and out of the recipe target (1.016 ish) I was racking to the...

Hi Steve, I’ve got a porter in the primary. Really interested on how the spiced rum worked out at bottling in this batch, any good would you recommend ?

Hi Garry, fair warning I’m a virtual novice, I’m only on my third batch so most will be better placed to advise but I really got a lot from Papazian Link. This might not be for everyone, but I got a decent amount of the basics in fairly easy style and some extract recipes to get me started...

Thanks Hazelwood. Chinook as my bittering hops and Cascade at 15 mins. I’m now considering splitting like Hagrid suggests and dry hoping one batch and comparing to see what works best.

I do Good thinking! I wouldn’t have thought to split it cheers.

First time for this one Banbeer, like the idea of getting a baseline though, cheers.

Afternoon guys. I’ve got a Robust Porter fermenting nicely but I’m considering dry hoping it? This is my third brew so don’t want to wreck it - and I’ve put some chilli and ginger in the boil at 30mins. My head says leave it be there’s enough going on but the mad alchemist in wants to bung in...

Spot on I’ll give it a look. I def like the pale ales. Tbh I’m pretty keen to try most brews right now I was the same with Whisky years ago,found a couple I liked and then ended up liking them all!

Yup seriously looking at all grain. Loving the possibilities. What’s your go-to brew?

Cheers GerritT. It’s been some steeped speciality grains then in with the extract - is that partial mash?