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Hi, I was going to use the recipe here:https://byo.com/recipe/sierra-nevada-pale-ale-clone-2/ However, when I plug it into Brewersfriend it give me just under 72IBU’s which is over double what the recipe should be! Am I doing something wrong or should I just cut down on the early additions of...

Mine is a good quality hamper and holds the mash temp fine - I just like tinkering with things!

Hi, I currently have a 3 vessel brewing system - tea urn, jam boiler and picnic hamper. I am wondering whether I can improve my abysmal efficiency by recirculating the mash but have a couple of questions.... Would this do the job...

Has anybody tried this? I always batch sparge and aim for around 2.5L/Kg

I had the same issue a year ago with a Punk IPA clone - went into the bottles a nice golden colour, came out a muddy brown colour! I sent some samples off to the local Uni who have a brewing school (I so want to give up my job and apply for that degree course!) who looked at it and found...

Always pellet for the c hops

The hops used in the last one and this one currently brewing were centennial and cascade, with Williamette at 30mins and the c hops at the very end. This one also has 100g of dry hop as well as 100g at 2 mins. Maybe that’s it, not enough hops, would not surprise me if us home brewers...

Erm... Dont think so, I still enjoy a punk IPA or Lagunitas when Im out. Seems to just be my hoppy pale ales that I brew at home. This last one that I dry hopped tonight is going to be my last if it does not turn out hoppy, going to go back to kits which are pretty dam good nowadays anyway

I seem to not be able to make a hoppy brew anymore:-( Last brew was a Lagunitas clone, it has 150g of hops boiled for 3 mins but I cant taste them! Im wondering what I can be doing wrong? I add the 3 min hops, boil for 3 mins then turn off the boiler and leave for 30 mins then chill down as...

Gave it a wee stir and it’s now bubbling away, reckon it was a combination of me putting a bit more water than usual in the airlock and maybe the lid was not perfectly tight, whew!

Wonder if I should stir it up, the old yeast cake is still sitting on the bottom?

Never had any issue with cold crashing, do it all the time.

It had warmed up to 18 but just dawned on me since it’s a half batch there will be less sugar and less co2 getting produced? Suppose it should be fine till the 27 th anyway as it’s in a sealed fermenter. Just a teeny bit worried..

I brewed an IPA and bottled yesterday morning. I left the yeast in the fermenter and later in the afternoon brewed another smaller 10l batch of pale ale and pitched on top of the yeast around 7pm last night. I was expecting it to have taken off and be bubbling away but it aint! Do I need to...

Im doing a Lagunitas clone and am using the US Pale ale yeast - been brewing since Sunday at 19C but the fridge smells like Banana, I;m very worries this is going to ruin the beer....Anyone else had a similar experience?

Dunno, they are sending me a pack FOC - will let you know in a few weeks!

Yeah I reckon it’s just a sales pitch!

I love Lagunitas and want to brew a clone.... I found various online recipes that all seem similar, usually the same grain bill but but some have centennial and other only cascade. Anyways today I was looking at the beer on RateBeer.com and the spiel on there from Lagunitas themselves, mentions...

Crossmyloof yeast, never thought about that, just ordered the hops from them last night as well! Sent them a facebook message too see if they can chuck a pack of the yeast in ny order...

Im looking to brew a Lagunitas clone next weekend and the recipe recommends WYeast 1056, I usually use dry yeast so googled a dry alternative and apparently US05 is exactly the same strain. Sounds good but.... Brewersfriend recipe calculator has 1056 s 75% attenuation and US05 as 81%...