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Bit if a mixed bag today, didn't quite hit my numbers. OG finished up at 1034 instead of 1037. Drainage wasnt great and maintaining a stable temp was tricky. Few extra litres left in the keggle compared to usual so I'd say I dropped the ball on water volume and put in a bit too much. In...

Brewing up my 'Czech Buddy' for the summer. Its basically an American light (budweiser style) with a tamed down Czech lager hop schedule. It gets a lot of thumbs up from non craft drinkers and it's a lovely midweek pint.

That is a thing of beauty

I started with a Peco. I DIYed an electric keggle using the element from it about a year later (had to get a second element but was great to be able to upcycle the Peco a bit) I love brewing gear projects, there's always something to upgrade and mess around with.

Was planning on getting one of these, push fittings look handy. Anyone have first hand experience? https://www.geterbrewed.com/doutight-8-mm-filter-system-100-mesh?search=Filter

Some things just aren't worth DIYing. Get yourself one of these or something similar that are designed for the purpose. https://www.geterbrewed.com/peco-boiler-for-brewing-beer-all-grain-biab-model-eb1b?search=Peco

Depends on your process really. Try to get as much out of fermentation co2 as you can, I spund at 15psi, the blowoff goes into a keg full of sanitiser that's hooked to an empty keg, use the blowoff to push the sanitiser from the full keg into the empty and then from the now full keg back into a...

Are you planning on transferring to another keg or using the fermzilla as a unitank and serving the beer direct from it? You could go all out and get a big CO2 tank and regulator which you'll probably end up getting eventually but if you want to keep things simple to start with just get an...

Cheers, not planning a dry hop will aim for 5.6 with some lactic

Hi All, decided to give Lutra Kveik a try. Can't get it Ireland for some reason so it's winging it's way to me from The Malt Miller. I'm looking forward to seeing how it preforms but I've read that it can bring the PH of the final beer down, does that mean I have to adjust for a slightly higher...

Have been meaning to try voss at a lower temp for a pesudo lager to see how it works. Brewed a small pilsner loaded with saazs hops to see if they carry through. It's sitting at 20c and let it build itself up to 12psi and will hold it there with the spunding valve. Was bubbling away after 4...

It's safe to say I will never be using campden tablets again. It was fermented out in 3 days, left it @20c for another 6 days rousing the yeast every 2 days, probably not necessary but no harm could come from it. Let it free fall to room temp over 2 days and then began cold crash. Clean crisp...

Agreed, far from clinical but I'll have beer at the end either way. Slurry was in the fermenter under pressure with about 4 litres of beer that I transferred prior to pitching in the new wort. Tasted the same.

Week later than planned but brewed again today and left out the campden tablet. Pitched on top of the slurry from the last batch. We'll see how it goes.

Decision made. I've racked the 'dry hopped' corny to a fresh corny and refilled the 'dry hopped' corny from the fermenter. I won't get the same hop utilisation but doubt it will take much to override the 'twang'. Experience dictates there's 3 or 4 litres left above the yeast cake in the FV. I...

Live in the west of Ireland. All we get on local water reports now are test results saying the water is free from this and that but no report as to mineral content or ph. That wasn't the case a few years back but we are where we are.

Might need to brew this again with bottled water and see what the outcome is just to see if it is the campden and/or water

No I have very good quality drinking water but it is treated with chlorine at source

Added it while heating up the strike water