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The Graham Wheeler, British Real Ale has a Guinness Extra Stout that i'm going to brew shortly. Do you think he was being sarcastic with the one line description "World classic beer of enormous complexity and character". Given the recipe is the simplest of all the stouts / porters in the book...

Brewfather always calculates my mash water at 22.2 which I discovered is too much. My efficiency was terrible. David heath video suggests 3x grain weight. So 5kg grain eq 15ltr of water. That seems low to me. I'm doing brew #3 tomorrow so I'm gonna try 19ltr. Anyone else have a magic mash...

Welcome from East Belfast.

I'm conditioning one now where I cultured the yeast from 4x330 ml hoegarrten bottles. Tasting from the FV suggests its going to be a goodun.

I just ordered one. Can't wait to step up my brew game.

Current stable is a 08 fireblade, 97 cb500. Pilsner boiling in the background. Lol.

I am making the DDH pale ale from the Gregg Hughes book. I added 150g of hops at end of fermentation, left for 5 days, transferred to secondary to condition at 4C. At that point, it was fruity, almost luminous yellow, and smelled, and looked brilliant. After 2 weeks however, it resembles pond...

Still no sign of life today. No Krausen or yeast islands. I went to HBS and they had US33 but 2 months out of date. So I settled on some MJ M44. Thoughts being that it says it ferments clean. So hopefully the wheat, citrusy flavours will still be present. Its not the beer I wanted to make, but...

Still no bubbles today (Tuesday). Do you think I've killed it? I set the inkbird to 23.5C so it was cooling after pitching. Not sure what to do with it now. I've no other wit yeast here, and going to be a few days for a delivery at least. My local homebrew shop might have some US05 or...

I pitched MJ21 at 25C on Saturday evening into my witbier. Still no sign of any bubbles tonight on Monday evening. Is this normal? Im sure the bucket seal is fine.

When brewing a Wheat Beer, what kind of water profile would you generally target? Brewers friend doesn't have anything with the word wheat in it. :)

soyyojuli. Your mashing pump looks interesting. I'd love to make that. What kind of pump is it?

I plan on brewing the European Lager from this book next. Has anyone made it already. Just wondering what it tastes similar too.

lol at noticing the trub. All my brews have been like that. Not really sure how to solve it. I tried adding a mesh filter to the inside of the tap, made from an old flexible hose. But that clogged in seconds and i ended up having to syphon. This brew I tried using a hop sock to filter the wort...

Ok. I figured a tube would be the solution. Thanks guys.

I got a 2nd hand under-counter fridge, which seems to be the norm for these things. Done a brew today and excited to get fermenting but hit a snag with the airlock on the top of the bucket. The bottom of the fridge is not flat. There is a big bump where the compressor lives round the back...

I had not considered a computer power lead. I have a few kicking about as well. I took the kettle base apart and used the spade connectors attached to the wire ends. Prised them slightly with a flat blade and they were a nice snug fit over the element prongs. I used shrink tube to cover...

Hey Jimbo. I am trying the same thing. I have bought a Tesco £6.50 kettle, took the element out and put into a plastic bucket I had. I used a 38mm hole saw. Fit was perfect and no leaks. However, 10l of cold water, 35mins later and it still wasn't boiling. I'm going to get a second kettle this...

I have found a calpol syringe tube fits in the syphon tube. I put that in the end and suck on that. Once the beer is flowing, just pull out the syringe bit. This way my mouth never is in contact with the syphon tube. Not sure it makes any real difference, but i've done it that way.

Hi Big Dogg. I'm new here and from Belfast too. I've just last night bottled my first brew. I used a kit as well. Coopers Canadian Blonde. I'm with you on the bottling thing. There must be an easier way. Where did you get your bottles btw?