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Hi and welcome to the forum! I'm very interested in this. SWMBO thought I might like a raspberry pi for Christmas and I like the idea of programming temp profiles. Any chance of starting a thread with a few details?

Hairdresser in the village has a sign in the window saying "Unattended children will be given mullets"

Well I finished the door in double quick time with the promise of my Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier in my mind. Poured as per the video above and it came out hazy orange with a frothy brilliant white head that actually dissipated quite quickly. I possibly served this up a little too cold but I...

Tonight is the night for me. I have a door to paint, then my bottle of Weihenstephaner will be my reward! :beer1:

Good to welcome another N.Yorkshireman to the forum. We are sparse on the member map! Where abouts are you?

Hi Eliot, welcome to the forum. It is absolutely possible yes! Some others may suggest starting with beer kits, but I would suggest having a look at this thread. https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/have-a-go-at-simple-ag.51779/

Oooh Wye Valley. We have family in Bromyard and I always enjoy a pint when down there. We had a couple of casks for a family wedding last year. Sorry, I can't help with the recipe but I'll be interested to read what others come up with. athumb..

Unbelievable, a late surge from Timmy means it's going to take something special from Pils Urq in the dying moments...

Welcome to the forum. Sounds like you have a great setup. Those guides written by Strangesteve really helped me also. athumb..

Welcome to the forum and the start of a very addictive new hobby!

I roll back and forth for 4 mins at 30psi and that gives me plenty of carb. I roll it with the gas post at the bottom, so that it is in the beer. I think I saw that on a YouTube video by Gashslug originally

It's usual to back liquor in the fermenter before you pitch the yeast. In this way it is very similar to the way you would make up a kit beer, adding water to a tin of concentrated wort. I do this often in order that I can brew greater volumes using small batch kit. When I back liquor in this...

Congrats on your first brew! It would be fine to add water to the fermenter to dilute back to the correct OG. This is common practice and a technique called 'back liquoring'. There are plenty of online tools that will calculate this for you such as this one below. Adding 2L of water would have...

Once it's carbonated up, drop the temp back down for storage and come back and let us know how it turns out athumb..

It works both ways round Col. I keg lagers now and force carbonate before cold storage. Prior to that I carbonated in bottles after the diacetyl rest, then cold conditioned with success. Horses for courses. If you warm it up now it will carbonate quicker and will be absolutely fine. If you have...

Carbonating at 12-18C won't affect the flavour. Typically the temp profile will be something like 2 weeks fermenting at 12C Raise to 16C for a diacetyl rest for a few days Bottle and carbonate at 16C Then cold condition at 3C for a month If you carbonate at 3C it will still work, but the yeast...

I think 2 weeks at 12C or less (it reads like maybe most of that time was at 3C?) is possibly not long enough. Yeast activity is much slower at low temperatures. You could raise the temp further, say up to 16C or simply wait longer. I typically leave ales for 2 weeks at 20C to carbonate.

Wife went to the sorting office to collect a parcel today then sent me this message :laugh8: clapa

Posted x 2 this morning. The lady in the post office dropped one of them as soon she took it from me, but I couldn't smell beer so hopefully it survived!!

I think Coke is essentially a diluted and flavoured phosphoric acid, which is what I use for reducing alkalinity.