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Check out this company, much cheaper than SS Brewtech but the quality is supposed to be very good. https://www.brewbuilder.co.uk/

My current setup is a 25L kettle with a ball valve and thermometer with the BIAB method, it serves me well but I now feel another vessel would make my life easier and have been researching the pros and cons to both. For me the main advantages of an all in one seems to be the obvious far smaller...

The above 2 points were what sprung to mind, I always rinse my beer glasses with hot water and towel dry after and I find the stronger traditional English ales benefit from a good conditioning time at ambient temp(1-3months). Otherwise everything else sounds spot on, are you getting a...

41 IBU is a little high for a Blond especially if you don't want it too bitter, according to Brewers Friend a Blond should be 15-30 IBU so I would go with 25g @ 60 mins and 21g @ 5 mins. Should give you 25 IBU and more aroma from the hops.

After a decent 1st attempt at a Weiss bier and a Dunkel Weiss bier on the cards I thought it would be best to do some research, to find a Weizenbock in stock at a supermarket was a bonus. The Fullers was mentioned on this forum as being a barley wine and a good one at that... so in the basket...

From Lidl, one of their large Melton Mowbray pork pies. Bloody lovely with some Dunkel Weiss bier 🥰

Those SS conical's are really tempting for me, the ability to remove the yeast trub without transferring to another vessel is a huge plus point for me, also gives you the option to use it as a secondary for bulk aging using the same method. Having said that a plastic bucket FV with a tap for...

It had never even occurred to me to go for option 2, I will give that a go next time and see how much wort I can salvage to go back into the FV. I had also been reading that during the boil discarding the foam should reduce the amount of hot break trub left in the kettle.

Good question, my point which I should have been clearer with is that my longer and slower mashes give me a higher original gravity. As it happens I have also noticed that the final gravity tends to finish slightly lower than expected which had slipped my mind. I remember reading that 63c is...

As someone who does all grain via the stovetop BIAB method I find that longer and lower mashes at 63-65c give slightly better efficiency , sometimes longer is only 15 minutes but if I have the time and the mash smells particularly good then it might being a 1.5 to 2 hour mash. When I fancy...

Fancied something dark, malty and hoppy for these cold evenings that will be more common now. 3KG Munich 1KG Chevallier 750G Brown 500G Melanoidin Huell Melon & Sorarchi 1.060, Lallemand Nottingham

I wanted to have a go at using Kölsch yeast, so threw together a blend of Munich, Vienna, pilsner and wheat malt. Lovely malt flavour and very refreshing but I suspect this is a little complex for what a 'normal' Kölsch would be, shame the yeast went crazy and this ended up at 7.5% ashock1

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I did this with my latest stout but the whole bar (125g?) and also some chocolate malt, lovely chocolate taste without being overpowering or too sweet. If you shop at Lidl they randomly have 95% Cocoa chocolate bars far cheaper than everywhere else (except perhaps Aldi)

Brewed this once when it was in there sale, ended around 8% from memory, 5kg of stout extract gave it a very intense malt flavour that was also bitter. It did mellow though after a very long time conditioning in the bottle but I cant help feeling adding some lighter malt would balance the...

Sorry to hijack the thread but I am in a similar position but mine is still fermenting and only been doing so for 6 days. After a disaster brew day which lead to a ripped brew bag, spilt wort and a few mistakes under pressure the pre pitching sample tasted very sweet as expected. Curiosity got...

Depends how much toilet roll you have 🤔

Sure is! very gentle stirring when mashing was required and keeping VERY close eye the whole time, live and learn. That should do the trick, but this one is similar price but comes with a hop bazooka and a false bottom. Not a deal breaker but that's 2 extra filter stages to keep any debris...