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I’m back to thinking of just adding a few wee sprinkles of yeast to each bottle at bottling time..... That means I’m not really warming it up to 20 degrees, just back to say 4 or 5 my normal bottling temp. I just dont want to warm it up and chill it down and loose a lot of hop flavour -would...

I normally bottle it cold, so let it warm up and then add yeast and bottle? Think I might be best to let it warm up, move it to another fermentor to get it off the sludge as there is loads of hops in it! Then warm it up, add dry yeast, 0.5 pack? Mix it up and leave then hope for the best and...

i put my latest pale in in my beer fridge and turned it up full, but did not expect it to freeze! So today I went to bottle and discovered a full 20l ice Cube! Is this now ruined? What do you guys suggest? I’m thinking of leaving it to defrost, then sticking it back in the fridge for a few more...

Hi - my water is near enough pure water I have never added anything to my water but it is interesting what you say about astringency as I think I have noticed this before. Assuming my water is pure (I’m in scotland any my water comes from a local reservoir, I have posted the water report here...

I will have 20g of amarillo left so will use that in the dry hop - now what you mean about using it for bittering but then t buy magnum for bittering means wasting some sine I brew that infrequently nowadays aanyway

Brewstore suggested i change to 200g dextrine malt rather than the crystal since Im using pilsner so went with that. Malt bill now has: 4 Kg Pale 1.2 KG Pilsner 200g Dextrine

Yeast - the usual US05 Or mangrove Jack m44 - Open to suggestions for others though?

My neighbor and I have decided to get a quick brew on this afternoon - A Pale Ale style, can you guys just check and make sure it all looks OK? HOME BREW RECIPE: Title: Amarillo and Citra Brew Method: All Grain Style Name: American Pale Ale Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 22.7 liters (fermentor...

Im looking at the DIY Dog recipe now and it all looks ok, just wondering if I should up the dry hop as I always suspect I wont get the same levels of hop extraction as they do..... Also the blurb mentions Caramel notes layered on biscuit malt, but there aint no biscuit malt in the recipe...

Are they airtight? I have some mason jars that are supposed to be airtight and seem so but..... we left a jar of sugar at our Caravan and a couple of weeks later it was solid, seems it had absorbed moisture so cant be airtight.

Cheers, I reckon I will get more bitterness from the 1min additions as well but I have 2 thoughts here..... the magnum for the 60min buttering is a little old, maybe a couple of months so won’t give quite as much as the software suggests and the IBU is a little low anyway I feel, so a few more...

Im doing a brew at the weekend with my neighbour, so this has to turn out good! I am using up what hops I have left in the freezer.... I do have the following: Simcoe 90g Ekanout 54g Williamette 90g Galaxy 25g Perle 15g Magnum 14g Decided not to use it all, went with Magnum for bittering...

I have had a lager that was fermenting with lager yeast, in the temp controlled fridge for 2 weeks, should I now raise the temp by say 2 degrees a day up till it reaches 21, then leave it for a few days? Do I then need to lager it in the primary for 3 weeks (at around 2 degrees) or can I chill...

OK then, lets go with 66 for the mash! WHat about fermentation temp? Was originally thinking of around 12c but just read an article ion Brulosophy where they could not tell the difference between one at 10c and one brewed at 20c! Also I was not going to rehydrate but simply sprinkle 2...

Not sure what temp to ferment at - need to look at the packet and see

Going for a 60/30/10 addition of Saaz and was also looking to increase the mash temp to 68 to get a little more body? I got the last 2 packs of W34/70 but sticking this yeast into brewersfriend and mashing purely pilsner at 65 gives me a FG of 1.006. Upping it to 68 gives a FG of 1.008, which...

Thanks guys - the brewshop is showing 2 packs of 34/70 in stock, will try for that then...... Will maybe drop the flamout addition as well?

https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/629755/czech-pilsner How does the above recipe look? Am following a recipe from Greg Hughes book but dont want to use liquid yeast due to the cost! Will use 2 packs of the dry yeast though

But when you look at my recipe I have about the same initial 60 min hops and am getting the full 37 IBU from that, so any other later hop additions are going to increase it over the original recipe.

What’s confusing is this recipe -https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/28546/sierra-nevada-pale-ale-clone Is obviously from the same source and has the same additions of hops but gets the original recipes IBU’s????