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Hello and welcome from an Essex girl!

Just a thought for anyone who wants to get into drying, I have a dehydrator which I don't use any more.. the heating element doesn't work on it, but my guess is it would be easy to replace/repair. If anyone wants it, I'll gladly post at cost. The fan works fine. It's this: Buffalo 10 Tray...

Haha that’s you sorted for the next year of brewing then!

I use this sauce for my rotisserie chicken and it is literally the best chicken you've ever tried. No reason you couldn't use it for beercan chicken too. I don't add the 3 tsp of salt though, as I want to live! 1 tsp is enough...

I like this dog biscuit recipe: https://www.deschutesbrewery.com/dogs-life-ruff-spent-grain-dog-treats/ I've got a dehydrator and am going to try drying the grains next brewday to use as flour. Will report back. I tried once but the temp was too low so they went sour. There are tons of recipes...

@Drunkula thanks so much for the indepth reply! That's some crazy yeast!

Favourable flavours at temps 15-30c! Well I’ll be jiggered.

Just dry or did you make up a starter first? I'm setting up a heated brewing area and can't wait to try out the kveik!

I just got mine yesterday and am currently using it in my kegerator as the damned thing keeps freezing. I put it to 5.5 C +/- 2C so that the compressor doesn't have to turn on and off all the time, is that ok or should I reduce the differential do you think?

I love a pint of guinness snakebite. What can I say, you can take the girl out of Essex.

Welcome in. You don't 'need' any of those things, but want is a different matter altogether. And wait till you get into using corny kegs instead of bottles! This can be an expensive hobby, but easily justified when you make the best beer you've ever had.

Have you done a water analysis on your supply? I'd suggest starting there and seeing what it comes up with. If your water is out, the beer will be out.

That's a great idea. I think they sell those in tesco/sainsbury etc too.

Oops didn't notice that!

Found this. One left! Speidel Fermenter Large Fermentation Vessel Home Brew Beer Lager Making 12 Litre 5060571760036 | eBay

There are 12L speidel fermenters. @MyQul does 10L brews I think too, not sure what he uses. I use a 10L food grade bucket with an airlock stuck in the top.

Oh yeah and I did a 2 hour mash and a 90 min boil as I had time.

I ended up having to go to Tesco to get water anyway, so threw a box of tesco value cornflakes into the mix instead of some of the sugar. It smelt weird mashing, but good boiling. Hopefully it'll work out!

I had a packet of liquid yeast sent with an order a while back. It was a freebie, so I didn't realise it was in the box, which I opened about a week after receiving. It's perfectly fine. I did a starter with it just to be sure though.

That potato brew looks similar to pulque which is potentially the most awful thing I've ever tasted! I hope it's better than it looks! :)