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Did just that. Here was the beer as kegged. Still a bit hazy, but hopefully will settle out a bit more in the fridge for the next week or so:

Having someone round and we're going to try brewing a Jon Finch stout outside, socially distanced.

So I've now crashed down to 4C and added the gelatin last night. Plan to keg tomorrow (and then possibly brew again on Saturday!) But I've begin some overthinking. Basically the crash and adding the gelatin have meant some oxygen will have gone into the FV. And because it's a Helles, I'm...

So, I bumped up to 19C around day 5 when the gravity was around 1.028. Now been sitting at 1.011 for a couple of days, and at that 19C for 3 or 4. I think that's long enough for the diacytel rest so tomorrow I'm going to crash it down to 10C, add some gelatin finings and then crash it further...

If you have more of the sugar that is fully fermentable, then the yeast will convert more into alcohol, so you end up with a drier taste, less sweetness and so other flavour additions may shine through. Basically, the achievable final gravity is lower, so there is the potential for less sugar...

I found drinking my weissbier out of the keg the hardest, and ended up hanging one day. I put that down to having a plentiful supply and no pile if bottles to gently remind me how many I've drunk...

Day two of fermentation. Pitcged around 18 degrees per instructions and then dropped to 11 degrees once fermentation had clearly started yesterday morning. Airlock is going quite fast at the mo. SG appears to have dropped to around 1.040 in the past 48 hours. 10 more gravity points and I'll...

If you are using the Grainfather pressure transfer kit, did you work out how to connect it to your regulator? All my pipework is 3/8" but the grainfather gas lines are much smaller

Starting gravity 1.052 so allowing for error, basically spot on! Was my most straightforward brew day so far Colour looks about right to me - that sample is a little cloudy as it has come off the tail end of the grainfather but it was mostly very clear. Will update as fermentation progresses...

Oh, and I dropped the first mash to 65 deg C in the end

Saw all your replies and many thanks. I am currently mid-boil on the following recipe, where I bumped up the Munich and melanoidin per your suggestions Mash Ingredients Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner Malt - 4.2kg Weyermann Munich Malt Type 1 - 0.3kg Weyermann Melanoidin Malt - 0.08kg Biscuit Malt...

I based the quantities around this recipe. I could bump the Munich up a bit for some flavour, but extra melanoidin might be a bit cloying? Not sure - only basing it on some reading rather than direct experience

My wife is insisting on a different approach - your thoughts appreciated here! Fritz's Recovery Helles

Right. So this evening has not gone well. But while I was trying to have a good mope about the loss of perfectly good beer, my wife will have none of it and has insisted that I brew over the weekend. I am not one to say no, so here we go. I've drafted up a recipe for a Munich Helles based on...

Just had huge troubles using a hydrometer early on and managed to contaminate a lot of beer. Prefer small samples but its largely historical. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to curl up and be depressed for a bit

Maybe I need to get a tap that can't get knocked on. Dunno. A lot of work just poured itself away there. I haven't even gone in to clean it all up yet.

And....disaster. Keg is in an old fridge and the tap has somehow gotten knocked on and completely drained into the fridge and over the garage floor. Unsalvageable. Gutted.

Visual victory (thanks to my absolute genius.....in marrying an engineer who figured out what had gone wrong with the tap!) Lots of malt character coming through alongside the alcohol. But still a little 'green' so will leave it another week

Tasting okay after kegging on Saturday at 1.2bar. Only issue is my tap which is only giving me a trickle- can decide if it is the tap, connector or something else with the keg. But it means no head develops on the beer at the mo, which is visually disappointing

bit of a grumble this. Someone bought this for me so I thought I'd give it a go today while bottling/kegging. But opening it up, they've used a very narrow 5mm gas line but no way of connecting it to a regulator - all my pipework is 0.25" So currently unusable unless I work out how to get...