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Thanks Terry. I stopped the dry hops because of the reaction I had in the FV. I can still smell it now - not very pleasant. I will carry on and see what happens.

I have been brewing a Belgian Style IPA and was dry hopping with Brambling Cross pellets BEFORE pitching the yeast for fermenting. This is my problem - see picture - after 3 days with the hops in a sterilised bag suspended in the wort - that was racked off from kettle into a fermentation bin - I...

Thanks Simon and Ade for that useful information and guidance. As I said - just a beginner here - but a willing student. I don't mind a bit of bitterness (it stops the wife from drinking it!) so we will see what the final result is. I will go and get some hi aroma hops and see what happens...

Hi Poochops. You may well be right - this was a first bash after all and I am just a learner. I was using the recipe calculator and just played about till I got all green ticks on the screen. If the calculator has given me a bum steer then I will find out soon. It is all a learning...

Well attempting my first home designed brew of a Belgian IPA. I used the Brewers Friend Recipe app to construct a suitable brew - based on previously read Belgian brews. This is the recipe: FIRSTBASHMASH Belgian Pale Ale Recipe Specs ---------------- Batch Size (L): 20.0 Total Grain...

Thank you Terry and Bezza. I'll take a look

Hello fellow enthusiasts, Are there any Home Brew clubs in the Sussex area? I am interested to swap experiences, info, techniques etc.

Yes Please. Add me to the growing list.

Is that what these small bottles of Hop Aroma Oils are for? I have never considered them so far.

I have made a few beer kits up over the years and followed the recipe printed on the label. In all of them they have suggested just to 1) add hot water to the sticky malt gunge just out of the tin - get it to the right temperature - 2) pitch the yeast and stand well back then 3) ferment. They...

Hi Guys, I too had the dilema in choosing from the many versions of Mash Tun and I finaly plumped for modifying a 33 litre Youngs FV I already had to hand. I wanted to insulate it and had drawn up a design to encase it in Building Foam (which I may still do to another bin and publish on here...

Hi Elvis, Please see this ebay listing (there are many others like it for a similar price) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stainless-Steel-Tea-Urn-35-Litre-Electric-Catering-Hot-Water-Boiler-2500w/292029016056 I got a similar one on Gumtree for £10 (only used once) and did the mod for it HERE...

Yes you may be right but I haven't tried it out yet. It all may end up as storage in the corner of the garage in which case this will be a warning to others what NOT to do. I at least will have learned something.

Requirements As part of my brewing experience I have read many articles, seen Youtube videos and trawled through this and other Forums and have realised that having a multilayer Brewing Frame or Station is the way to go. This unit has to be strong enough to support the brewing, mashing and FV...

When I was able to "aquire" from the cafe at work - Starbucks and laterly Costas, I used to grab a handfull of sugar packets. After a while I had eventually enough to use one per 500ml bottle for priming my cider. I'm sure it would work for beer too hehe. It was all so useful to have a...

Stand on your head next time when you take the pics :lol:

Hi there, yes I am planning to use a hop bag initially that is suspended from the handles of the urn. I had thought about the ball valve type of tap to replace the current one as I think I mentioned earlier but that would have required widening the current hole for the tap and there would be...

Yes That is exactly what it does. Not a daft question at all. It does the same function as holding down a trip switch on the kettle - all you have to do is stand well back...

UPDATE to Boiler Conversion. The Burco control, when set to No.6, did not produce a rolling boil as is required (from what I have read in this website and elsewhere) when boiling the worst and hops. This requires a modification to the circuit in Picture 8 above to "force" the situation but...

This is the process I went through to convert a cheap 30lt Tea Urn into a boiler for my new home brewery. The premise was to build up all the necessary kit for as little outlay as possible - "she" wouldn't let me do it otherwise... PICTURE_1 I got this from an online auction site for the...