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For a starter where you want a litre at 1.040 I use about 100g of DME so doing a rough calculation if you divide that by 40 and multiply by 14 which is the number of points per litre you want that'd work out at 35g per litre of wort to raise by that much. Multiply that by 34 and you get 1.19kg...

There's no harm adding it to the kettle pre-boil but it's hard to know what you'll end up with if you do it that way. Are you sure you measured the pre boil correctly and took temperature into account? It took me quite a while to tune in my old setup so the pre and post boil would be accurate...

Water treatment isn't something most people get into right from the start so I wouldn't be too hard on the shop you bought it from. It's more like fine tuning. Just give it a go and see what you end up with. Don't assume your beer will be a disaster as it might still be decent. The pH will...

I tend to go for 14 days before bottling. If you do it early maybe be a bit cautious with carbonation.

Should be fine. I imagine it's about the same as Belle saison which will pretty much rip through anything Sent from my E6653 using Tapatalk

I've had yeast explosions with certain types but on the whole I get an inch or two of foam.

What sort of yeast are you using and what recipe? I might be able to give you an idea of how low it will go as I've used quite a lot of the available yeast strains. I've brewed tons of these so if you're interested I'm happy to pass on the recipes I liked the most. The one that stalls is Wyeast...

One of the coopers kits actually comes with lager yeast. Have a look in the kit reviews because I think it might be the euro lager one. When you say the beer is at 16% in the FV what do you mean? Generally using more yeast results in a cleaner flavour and for a lager that's what you want so...

Last night I had first try of my latest blond Biere de garde. Tasted good but the hop flavour needs to blend in a bit more. I followed that up with a bottle of fullers golden pride. Yum! Sent from my E6653 using Tapatalk

They're the same as the old tesco value ones. Wasn't there a guide on here about it years ago? I installed some in my boiler using it. Sent from my E6653 using Tapatalk

Have you tried dingemans pale? Lovely bready taste on that. I love weyermann Munich 1 too. Sent from my E6653 using Tapatalk

I've had a first taste of this an it's already about a thousand times better than the last beer I made on my old rig. I don't know if it's the mash program or something else about the BM but it's really smooth and rounded just five weeks after brewing which is mad for a beer this strong. The...

Had a few from the Conwy brewery last night which came with my shopping. Minera Mountain Ale and Welsh Pride. Both bottle conditioned with a nice rounded taste and a good bit of bitterness. Bit cloudy from the sediment but not worried about that.

Cherry sour of some sort or go with wheat. The Samuel Smith's cherry beer is a wheat beer and that tastes decent but a real lambic kriek beer is the best. It will take ages but you can always split the wheat batch and do some sour and some clean. The lambic base is basically the same as a...

For my third brew on the Braumeister I thought I'd do something to use up my 500 ml bottles so I went for a Pale ale. I want it to be fairly sweet yet light. It's a tweak of a beer I did last year and unfortunately I couldn't get the Antwerp Ale yeast so went for the one that I found closest to...

This isn't strictly a brewing book but I thought it would be good to have a review because I found it quite handy. I've wanted to look into this subject since trying a very old bottle of Fuller's Vintage Ale which completely blew my socks off. It's a guide to which types of beers benefit...

I've read this cover to cover several times so thought I'd post a review. I'd say it's the best book to get an overall view of Belgian beers and not just the Trappist beers it focuses on. It's a good one to start with if you want to get into brewing Belgian beers but have only previously done...

Using a mix of leaf and pellets works well as the leaf hops can act as a filter. Sent from my E6653 using Tapatalk

Bottled a few days back. I always do two crates of small bottles and the remainder in corked champagne bottles so the extra wort meant I've plenty of extras! Sent from my E6653 using Tapatalk

Nobody seems to have reviewed it yet but I had a really good month in February and splashed out on a Braumeister Plus 20L. The upgrades on top of a normal one are a cooling jacket and a second tap on the bottom to allow you to drain it out with no dead space. The main reasons I went for it...