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So I brewed what I was hoping would be a nice tropical IPA just over a week ago, this was to be dry hopped and the recipe I had tried to follow stated that I should dry hop during and after fermentation, which I have dutifully done. There were a lot of hops in this recipe, the main being nelson...

Great bit of kit, I think it's the same as the Klarstein or vice versa.

Okay so my idea of not using the fermenting fridge hasn't worked out too well as the heating went off in the house reesulting in the fermenter going down to 15 degrees C. asad. So everything slowed right down and I have a feeling its stalled, it's at 1.043 now (down from 1.047) after starting...

Thanks all, temperature is a good question, if I'm honest, I can't remember if I let it cool fully, so maybe thats the reason, I'll remember that next time, weird thing is, I thought about that post mash, but not so much post boil, newbie mistake I suppose, but learning all the time. I boiled...

Brewed a messed about with tropical IPA, used up hops in the cupboard. Only question form a newcomer is as follows. I took a gravity after mash and got an expected 1.056 as per recipe in brewers friend, boiled for an hour including hop additions at 60 minutes and 0 minutes, took another...

Okay, update time, bottling carried out this morning, so our first babies have been born and are now settled under the stairs to condition. Can't wait to pop them and enjoy, tasted today and I'm very pleased, so we have a session IPA which is a rich orange golden colour, approx 4.4% abv it has...

Okay so fermentation has stopped pretty much around 1 week after brewing, its looking good, samples say we have achieved what we set out too, just want to taste the finished product now. We will gove it a couple of weeks before bottling, cheers for the helpful advice following my newbie questions.

hey, I'm in charge..... and I've got her permission to say that.

To be fair, I do have a raft of Vocation beers left over from brew day, but the missus is making me be good on school nights asad1

Thanks mate, it's all clean now with fresh water and slowed right down so leaving it alone, although I want a glass or 6 now, but I'll be patient. One other question, is it unwise to taste the brew when sampling whilst it's fermenting or is that fine?

Okay so after the bumpy start everything seems to be going well, the IPA is behaving very nicely, bubbling away steadily. The stout on the other hand has been up and down like a yoyo, but its now practically stopped bubbling but I think it's still active. Gravity has gone from 1.058 to 1.028...

Quick update, cleaned the bubbler out (twice) so drained a litre or 2 out to make more room for excited beer, must be a helluva party in there.

Thx mate

Fridge has gone a bit haywire and heated up a little too much, stout is now moving into the bubbler ashock1 Can I remove the bubbler and give a clean?...... IPA look good tho.

Yes we wanted to go all grain, my wife bought me a stainless steel fermenter for christmas, so it was her fault I ended up spending a bit more money on the rest of the equipment. I'd been bugging myself to get a grainfather (because I'm a bit of a gadget nut) but didn't want to spend that much...

Hi All, my mates and I had our first brew day yesterday, we're all pretty new to brewing. Day went great, but I just noticed that as we did 2 brews, the second one is missing an ingredient, so perhaps doing 2 on one day wasn't a great idea, hopefully it'll be okay, we tried to do a chocolate...