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Well @Henders having discussed it she thought garage - but that’ll never be clean enough to brew in - the root of the issue seems to be protecting the new hob. So in my head the rest of the kitchen’s fair game for brewing athumb.. Also, pre-empting the next question regarding the new worktops...

Hi all, we're currently in the process of installing a new kitchen and Mrs Madhouse has expressed disapproval in me brewing in it - the cheek!! Anyway, every cloud and all that, I'm thinking of using it as a catalyst to get me some brew specific equipment as I'm currently stovetop BIAB. Now I...

Definitely run the recipes through brewing software - some of the DIY Dog stuff needs a tweak even if it’s just for your efficiency.

I do like Skinners ales, good to hear they’ll help out a brewer in need too. Will be good to hear how these brews turn out too, there any Cornish Hop growers? You could do yourself a proper local brew.

Yeah, I always set up my own version of their recipes in order to double-check as they’ll need tweaking for efficiency if nothing else. Brewed Kamikaze Knitting Club (maple stout) and Hello My Name Is Helga (cherry IPA) so far, both currently carbing/conditioning but they tasted great on their...

And there was me thinking a bigger pan was an investment! It's the same with a lot of things eg I like mountain biking, I can do it on a £150 bike from Halfords or an £8k rig from a specialist, either way it's still the same sport and as long as fun is had it doesn't matter. (I ride neither...

Tend to keep on top of hydration and then it just leaves me with the lack of sleep to contend with (nights that end in potential hangovers are usually late ones). Need to have a session purely on homebrew to see if it’s better or worse. Plenty of fluid during the day, pint of water before bed...

3L cherry IPA bottled yesterday Total 1985

They'll have sent you an email with a code to claim it via the shop. You can always email them at [email protected] DIY Dog is available to download too, it's the recipes for everything they've brewed. Although they've just changed the site and it seems to have vanished for the minute -...

As long as your efficiency is ok in the recipe you should be alright, you'll have got the right amount of sugars from the grains via the mash for your FV volume. This means any boil or FV top-ups will just get you back to where you want to be. I find if I want say 4L in the FV, I brew to finish...

As has been said the closer to use you sanitise the better. I guess if you are able to seal it all up after sanitisation the day before then you shouldn't get any issues. Personally, I sanitise as my wort is cooling and then just before bottling then it's a matter of minutes between sanitisation...

I'd drop your efficiency to something like 60% as it's unlikely you'll get that working on a stovetop - unless that's what you usually get of course. I recently did a similar sized brew with 1.6kg of malt and it looks to be coming out at about 7%, so 7.4% with 1.2kg seems like an ambitious...

Welcome to the world of brewing, it’s addictive! I’m equally new to brewing and have learnt a lot already, loads of knowledge people here who are happy to help.

Aeration of the wort helps the yeast out - they need it to do their thing. After that oxygen is bad due to its impact on the alcohol. I’d say this would therefore apply to cider and wine also as neither of the above statements are specific to beer.

3L maple stout bottled yesterday 1187.5L total

Learned a lot about this recently so thought I’d share what I’ve learned so far. Rough rule of how much water you need is: bottling volume + FV loss (to Trub) + boil off + volume lost to grain = water required. Eg if you wanted 10L of beer, lost 2L to Trub, had a boil off of 2L/hr and 1.5kg...

Thank you all for the help, measured boil off last night and adjusted my equipment profile with that, set efficiency to 60% and grain loss to 1L/kg. Will need further adjustments but I’m in a better position for my next brew.

Me too, I use OneNote which we also use at work so easy to update while everyone else thinks I'm working wink... Just need to take more notes and in more detail.

Thanks. I think stirring the mash is a key one - I didn’t do it this time for no other reason than I forgot. Looking at the recipe again if I’d have got the same efficiency as the last brew I’d have missed target gravity the other way. Already squeezing the bag for all it’s worth - must get...

Thanks for the tips, I need to measure a bit more from my next brew I think. Just looked at the malt in my last brew, 1600g. So that had less malt and a higher FG, definitely did something odd with this one. Efficiency was set to 72% in Beersmith so a good chance that was incorrect, was 67% on...