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Hi all. Last night I got my gear ready to brew this morning and as far as I could see everything was fine and clean etc. I prepped my water and additions (phosphoric, calcium carbonate and sodium metabisulphate) and left it all ready for this morning. When I've started to mash in I noticed a...

Recently moved. Now in Gildersome, Leeds, LS27 🤘

Haven't got a name for this yet but strong notes of dark chocolate, quite rich but quite possit my favourite creation so far!! 🤤

Made Abi Blonde again. My abbey style blonde ale. A bit clear, a bit more flavour and a lot more alcohol (not intentionally 🤣) but bloody lovely.

Other than my equipment changing recently I don't really do anything differently so maybe I need to get back to basics on the process side. The malt was delivered from the malt miller only 2 days prior so I suppose there is a chance it was bad/old but not so sure about that tbh. I'll get there 😁

Hey, thought I'd give an update on this. Did another brew yesterday and after changing a few settings in brewfather I was still didn't hit the expected pre-boil and OG. Pre-boil should have been 1.054 but was 1.044 OG should have been 1.065 but even after adding a my Belgian Candi syrup and...

My czech pils. A little cloudy but I'm quite happy with the taste, quite bready and generally delicious 🤘

Ah! I didn't really know that, though it seems obvious. I suppose I just assume whatever brewfather spits out is good enough.

Just weighed out 10l of water and it was bang. The spacing between the rest of the markings are even so I'm hoping the rest of the markings are also spot on, they're at least consistent 😂

Yeah I'll see what happens next time. I do sparge as well and I don't think my method is off but I'll have a think about it all before the next brew day. Thanks.

I just assumed adding 1.5l after the mash was just going to get me to where I needed to be so I'm guessing based on the lower boil off and adding in 1.5l that's where I've sort of gone wrong with volumes. The Brewfather profile for the brewzilla gen 4 says I should have a brewhouse efficiency...

Yeah of course. So expected pre boil gravity of 1.041 but it was 1.050. Expected post boil/OG of 1.050 but was 1.040 Pre boil volume should have been 29.5l but it was about 28l so I did add the difference and then took the reading. Post boil should have been 25l but was 28l. That would make...

I've only switched systems because I broke the malt pipe on my old one and wanted to upgrade anyways. I'm still not 100% on what you mean by the volumes of water. Do you mean how the profile in brewfather will have certain values and they may be off? I've checked my refractometer and...

Sorry but I'm not sure what you mean. I'm definitely missing something there 😬 Yeah I didn't do that for sure. So maybe my pre boil reading was high (I believe I did take it from the bottom) but artificially. So then I've not been able to adjust on the fly because I've just assumed it's all...

Both and they seem to be bother telling the same story. 20° or there abouts but even when I've taken readings on the hydrometer at higher temps and used a correction calc it's been the same when cooled. I also have a rapt pill that has only give a different reading by +1 I'm using the markings...

Hey, So a few weeks ago I brewed a Czech pilsner and my post mash was roughly +3 on what it should be but post boil was -7 on where it should.have been. Then today I've brewed a witbeir and despite an entirely different AIO system it was +9 on post mast but -10 on post boil. I can't figure...

Not chalk or soda ash. I've had that before and it isn't that. Plus just to see I put some lemon juice in the bottles and it did nothing to shift the stuff. Like I said, it's more like a gritty sugar glazing I just can't get a picture of it through the amber bottles.

It isn't the chalky stuff that's sometimes left behind, unless when it builds up to a crazy level it becomes more like a sugar glaze. I'll try get a picture and will try acid of some sort as that did work when I had the chalk like stuff one time. It definitely seems different though.

I was going to try that as well! 🤣 Thank you. Will give it a go on the morning. Thank you.

Hi, I have a load of swing top bottles I left in a solution of water and oxy cleaner for just short of a month as I forgot all about them. I've just gone to take some put and they all appear to have a grainy residue on the inside and out. It's almost like a sugar coating. I assume the oxy...