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Hi all I'm a few brews in now and would like to hone my water profile a little. As I'm absolutely useless at mathematics I need some help. I've attached the water profile of where I live in France. I'd like to know how to change the profile to suit 2 main styles: IPAs and English Ales. I've...

Yes, I think it probably had something to do with me using the normal lower pipework with smaller overflow. Not sure what you mean by 'too quick lautering/sparging' That was kind of the problem, I couldn't sparge at all fast.

I had to lift up the bin and change the top overflow pipe mid mash so maybe that effected the sparge. I used the same grains I used on my first batch and that went ok - so I'm not sure there's a problem with the grain crush. I did have foam rising up over the plate, unlike the first brew I did.

Hi all I'm on my 2nd Grainfather brew and have just spent 90 mins sparging. This one's a lower grain bill and lower ABV (3.9%) So as a newbie, I was wondering, is it normal that a session beer would take longer to sparge than a higher ABV beer?

In truth people have been saying 'don't clean with washing up liquid!' but we do for everything else. Anyway, for me, I'm a novice and I'm willing to listen to the more experienced brewers on this site before I start tampering.

Because a swarm of Nazi beer gods are going to descend and suck up your krausen, steal your hops and render your beer an acrid sludge! Or not...:)

I have different sized bottles so can't really be bother to measure up sugar for all. For sure, bathroom is the way to go!!

Cheers Iain, yeah I have the youngs syphon with the thingy at the end. Yesterday when bottling, one of the slightly sanitised clothes pegs lept off and fell into the FV as I was bottling! I hope I haven't messed up the brew.

Thanks Bigcol! 1. So you don't actually soak the ring of crud around the bin, you just clean with PBW solution? 3. Yeah, I'm just testing this method out and it's a bit cumbersome I find. I guess you've got to find the easiest way for yourself. I found it easier transfering to a bottling bucket...

Hi all Last night I bottled my 3rd batch (this time without secondary fv) and encountered a few issues. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated. 1. PBW. Do I need to fill up the FV with PBW solution every time to clean? The FV is never that dirty - I was wondering if I could just...

It states that I have to boil the DME for 50 mins. So you would mix the DME in an FV with hot water, then back into the pan?

True, I have a 15 litre cool box. Reckon that will do the trick!

Yeah I think I'll just use the grainfather for the grains as it states that I have to keep the temp between 65-70. That's obviously muchy easier with the grainfather. Then I'll just transfer to a pot. Sound ok?

Maybe I'll just boil up the 6 litres but do a simple sparge on the 165g of crystal malt. Will probably add just 2 litres of sparging water. Calculations are not my forte!

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Hi all I need to use up a Golden Glory DME extract kit. It states (see photo) that I have to steep the 165g grain pack for 30 mins in 6 litres of water, then dissolve DME and hops. Then add to FV with added cold water. However, as a new owner of the grainfather I'm considering boiling the full...

I'm semi cold crashing a beer for the first time; in the shed at roughly 8 deg C. One question springs to mind, when I come to bottling, should I bring the temp of the beer up to room temp before?

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Hi All Maybe a silly question, I have a few bottles of Fischer to get through and was wondering if I could somehow give them a little hop kick as I don't really like lager. I was thinking that I could just open one and add an amarillo hop pellet and re-seal the bottle for an hour or so. I don't...

As far as I'm aware there is only chlorine (no chloramine) in my tap water so in the future I might just either leave the water over night in an unused FV and possibly add campden. A couple of questions on that: 1. To remove chlorine do you leave FV lid off or on? 2. I have campden (potassium...