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I found these photos from 2020. It’s not as neat as I’d like and this doesn’t show the newer CO2 line.

Morning all. I thought I’d taken a photo yesterday to illustrate but can’t find it now. though I’m sure there’s a thread here somewhere where I took pictures at the time. The fridge has the usual compressor hump and a radiator grill on the back, so it would seem particularly odd to have tubing...

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/grain-mill.97955/post-1115745 Personally I like the plug and play of the grainfather and it’s easily adjustable in a few seconds for different grain types. I do recommend the highly technical addition of an A4 piece of paper so when pouring the grain in...

For all my technical supposed competence, I'm not very good at remote thingymabobs, and have an ispindel that's sat in a drawer for a couple of years never used since it seems a bit intimidating to set up*. So the fridge has an inkbird controller on the outside with the probe through a hole in...

I don’t rely on ambient for chilling - crash or otherwise. I’ll swap out the Dubbel with the lager when it’s had enough of the warm confines of my brew fridge - which has a heater. The Dubbel can then nicely settle out at ambient and its own time. Whereas the lager will be taken to 18 for a...

Well it’s afae fine here in Edinburgh this morning I’ve rolled the dice and not brought a coat to a meeting today 😬, judging how well wrapped everyone else that seems a brave choice. Holds out hope for nicely ramped temperature rest for my lager though 🌟❤️🍺. Sorry folks this ‘brew day’ thread...

So this immediately made me think of what Stone Henge really was built for….

It’s mid April and the weather is proper miserable and cold …. Which makes for brilliant conditions in the garage maintaining a fairly steady 12 deg now.- just perfect. Now all I need is it to slowly warm up over the next two weeks and that will be perfect for the lager! Well I’ve got to find...

the pressure will always drop with a temperature drop, in part due to contraction of gas at lower temperature, but mainly because CO2 is a lot more soluble in colder liquids. So unless you have a leak - yes it’s normal 😀.

My second ever sourdough batch, much happier with this one having a more open texture, crisp on the outside and tastes fairly good too 🥳😊. I made the starter up in Kirkwall and brought it back down with me last week. Now all I need to do is be able to do this reliably.

It will likely come as no surprise to anyone here to learn that I have a thermostatically controlled deep fat fryer with an automatic oil recycling filter…. but even I draw the line at lard 😂

Yes - I’ve done so before for lagers but I prefer to work with ambient if I can after those critical first few days. The garage is at 12-14 deg over the day and the lager is a very steady 13 deg at the mo - which I’ll leave it at for at least another week, maybe two.

Usually the dip tube won’t fit anywhere else, since the length and bend is made to only fit the dimple in the keg bottom.

I suspect you’ve hop debris in your ball lock poppet …..I’ve had it happen a few times and it’s a faff to fix. If you’ve pressure on then it’s almost certainly that. The picnic taps on their own are usually too fast a flow unless you’re using a couple of metres of narrow tubing to slow the flow...

Thanks to @dad_of_jon , I’m celebrating the end of a week’s annual leave with this Ris-Kier buisness which at 11.25% I will be sipping slowly. It’s dark, rich and knock your socks off flavour packed. A bready saison spicy aroma, hints of bitter orange and dark roasted coffee. Flavour is Belgian...

Oh dear... we already have 5 🙈 , one in the kitchen, one in the garage that is sort of overflow and for my eldest daughter to use as she cooks for herself at the weekend, and two for my brewing - one a kegerator, and one as a fermentation fridge. It will fit two 30-35 litre fermenters but I'm...

When I'm on call for the hospital it is an absolutely no alcohol week for me, and I find I sleep better and feel better. Though generally I won't drink during the week anyway when I'm not on leave, but that's for the sake of my waistline!

Well that was a more eventful brewday than I'd have liked... again 🙃. I really have to find a way to mount my chiller as twice the pipes dislodged spraying warm sticky wort over the floor and lot else. The boil with the lid though compensated for the volume loss, but did mean the OG was a teeny...

Oh an old thread but to second TETBs comments. However if committed to fermenting in the keg, something to consider is diluting your final beer down with cooled boiled water. It’s what the larger beer producers do routinely ie brew a stronger beer then dilute it. This uses less energy and more...

1kg of Dark muscovado sugar added - I changed my mind to add it at the start of the boil and it smells heavenly. Given the colour and strength this is heading into Trippel territory 😍.