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My personal preference is to always cut with tap water...my last 25 brews I've averaged a 15/85 ratio of TAP to SPOTLESS and then added salt additions to get to my desired water profile. I've never personally brewed with Spotless (or other RO) in isolation, but others I know locally, who have...

If you dont want to do ANYTHING with your water, then, unless you are brewing a Czech Pilsner which requires about as soft a water as you can get, I would advise that you use the Ashbeck/Spotless to dilute your tap water. Being in Suffolk myself, I am familiar with the water you will be getting...

No. Never had a breakage. But then...I do pack my bottles properly, creating dividers (using old cardboard boxes or reusing dividers from commercial deliveries) that separate the bottles from each other AND creates a brace across the box to prevent crushing. Also the use of double walled boxes...

Never had an issue with ParcelForce in 8 years of sending beer to comps. I prefer to log my order online, print off my own label and drop off at my local PF depot directly. Full tracking is available from the moment they scan the parcel at time of drop off.

I dont know that they are planning to send rosettes or certificates.

If hot side aeration is your concern whilst whirlpooling then you will be absolutely fine leaving the hose in the kettle and well submerged below the surface so that splashing does not occur. Once your wort has chilled to yeast pitching temps then you are free to splash away as much as you...

Yes....in the early days of my all grain brewing with our local tap water being classed as VERY hard I was using on occasion maybe 10-12mL of lactic for a 20L brew. I went for a period of competition entries where judges were commenting on a slightly acidic twang to the beers which I had also...

So both my beers have been commented upon by their respective recipients. @MickDundee received my Smoked Dopplebock called Tanngnjost @ Tanngrisnir (the names of the goats that pulled Thor's chariot in Norse mythology...to be fair, the name is not mine...more of that later) The recipe isnt...

Dark Rock Cafe Espresso Stout Visually it looks spot on....nice and dark...near opaque but dark red when backlit, with a lovely rich creamy head that lasted well down the glass. On the aroma I got a good hit of coffee and some bonfire like smoke....nothing wrong there. However the flavour I...

Pours a hazy mid gold colour but no head developed. Aromas are predominantly of fruity (stone fruit - peach, and citrus notes) esters, low bready malty and some resinous hop The initial bitterness is quite aggressive in its presentation....perhaps bordering on what you might expect with an...

I had a sesh last night so am having a booze free day today. Got the final three beers of an advent calendar to finish up and then can sample the SS beers over the coming days.

65 is on the low side....as has been suggested, a few degrees higher will give a better balance and a few more non-fermentables. Also many infusion mashes will suffer from quite a bit of temperature variation through the mash....can easily find as much as a couple of degrees variation in...

my second beer arrived today...many thanks Santa...

For simple rehydration of dried yeast you do not need a stir plate. Just half an hour in a couple of hundred mL of warmish (25-30 dgree) water will do perfectly. Stir it into a cream with anything sanitised (I use a glass rod) and add to your wort when the wort has cooled to pitching temperature.

Weyerman Bohemian Pilsner (crushed) and Sorachi Ace please

This arrived today....many thanks Santa....I'm guessing a glut of bottles will be delivered over the next few days as they catch up from the strike.

I thought Santa had just delivered something to me but when I opened it I found it was a bottle of brandy that I'd forgotten I'd ordered last week!!!

Mine were posted a full week ago!!!!! Another parcel sent at the same time, reached its destination over the weekend so, hopefully the recipients will be getting parcels in the next day or so at worst.

I had a subscription for about 5 months a couple of years ago. Unfortunately their product line represented pretty much current "fads" in that it largely consists of fruity pale ales, IPA's (anyone for a Rhubarbara Streisand Extra Custard Milkshake IPA???) and similar along with oddball stouts...

I dont think they do (act as a role as a nursery for BJCP qualification). BrewCon might say that they will always have at least one BJCP judge in any judging pair but that is no different to other comps. However...pretty much all of the judge training and exam organisation is done by LAB or...