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It's just Sodium or Potassium Metabisulphite. You can probably get a kilo of it on ebay for a few quid.

It can definitely add a haze to your beer and depending on the mesh size of whatever you put them in you might get a few pints with a bit of green scum in the foam. Given time it will settle out. This is an APA which somehow has lasted 2-3 months and is now pretty much crystal clear

I've dry hopped in the keg with good success, in fact, I would say that to begin with 100g of hops was too intense (and I'm a hop head). After a couple of weeks, the intensity had lessened just slightly to leave a lovely hoppy beer which has stayed brilliantly hoppy for months now. I would...

How much splashing was there during the transfer. Oxidation can cause a pretty rapid colour change.

Good luck. Hope the beer turns out well. At least it looks like you've got plenty of healthy yeast to get it going.

I'm not sure if that would even help. I was reading some stuff on a forum for metallurgist called something like finishing.com and there was clearly still a lot of debate about the best way to passivate SS and whether citric acid was a viable option.

Which version of bar keepers friend do I want, there seems to be a cleaner and polish, power spray, power cream and a stain remover cream?

I'm about to pull the trigger on a 55L SS Brewtech stainless steel kettle. There's lots of info on their website about cleaning and passivating the kettle before using it for the first time. Whenever I've got new bits of stainless before I've just given them a good clean with soapy water and...

The yeast blew the airlock out and made a complete mess of my fermentation chamber if I remember correctly. It took a beer from 1.057 to 1.008 in about a week.

I had no problem culturing it up, you just need enough time for multiple steps.

If you want to fill a minikeg from your own corny keg I would suggest seeing if you can make some kind of counter presser filler using the grey bungs that are used with the party tap. If you can put a tube through the hole in the bung and then push the beer in under 2-3 PSI of pressure you...

Interesting that you didn't get on with the plum flavour you tried early on. I brewed a plum porter and used this essence which I found gave a really good plum flavour. They do a huge range or extracts and essences but I've not tried many. The lemon and orange are nice by nowhere near as...

Yes, I think so. The beer tasted OK at first but started to taste quite tart after a month or two in the bottle and I had a lot of gushers. It could have been picked up at some other point but I'm pretty careful with sanitation.

I've used the Wibbler yeast before and it is indeed a good yeast, however similar to one of the commenter of Jim's, I couldn't keep it going more than 3 or 4 generations, I also found it didn't attenuate as much as the Whitelabs strain and didn't pack down quite as well. Don't get me wrong, if...

T The vault strain system really annoys me. I used to be able to get my favourite yeast strain WLP022 Essex Ale on seasonal release. Now it's a vault strain and even if they do get enough orders they don't ship to the UK. I checked with their European office but they said the smallest quantity...

I just use my digital thermometer. I don't worry too much about hitting a precise temperature as I only use it for sparge water at the moment. If you want to avoid having to check the whole time a possible cheap alternative is this thermometer from Ikea. It has a lead long enough that you can...

I tried a proper 30 minute mash and boil for the first time on my last brew, previously I'd done 45-50 minute mashes and 30 minute boils. I think that I lost 5 points from my usual 80% efficiency. Some of this could also have been down to a larger than average grain bill at 6KG and the fact...

I built my own counter flow chiller and when it was working it worked well but being made from 8mm copper tube it still took ages to drain 30L of wort through it. I was also never happy with the cleaning. I would circulate PBW through it when cleaning the kettle and rinse it but I could never...

The Hydra has 3 25 foot coils of 3/8" (10mm) copper running in paralel so that's almost 23m total length. I think the big difference is that there are no bottlenecks in the chiller. You can run an outside hose tap at full blast and the chiller doesn't slow it down, so it carries away the heat...

I agree cleaning is a bore and really time consuming. I an probably not the best person to take advice from as my brew shed is a complete tip but I try to clean as I go during the downtime. Moving back to an immersion chiller has been good because I just dunk it in a bucket of water that I...