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I am quite excited to get a taste of a brew made with liquid yeast, these batches will be bottled ~15th December, so ready for sampling on Christmas day perhaps! A tad early, saying that I'm sampling my recent oatmeal stout and red ryePA, both bottled less than 2 weeks ago and they're delicious...

Mind you, if it's left closed from the beginning and the bottle is full of air, when the valve gets opened after fermentation has finished, that air is going to bubble through the beer. An oxidation risk perhaps?

So you're using kveik in everything more or less then? I'll maybe give that a bash some time. Sounds handy for summer, saves worrying about fermentation temperature and that last 20 degrees cooling takes the longest. I've had mixed results with flocculancy so far. I wasn't impressed with either...

When the bottles have been cleaned, spray some no rinse sanitiser in, seal up using the old lids, give them a shake and they're ready to go next bottling day. I keep a pan beside where im bottling and shake out as much sanitiser from each bottle in to it while filling another. I hate cleaning...

I'd have thought the same @Bigcol49 . I haven't got one either, i would like three of them. I reckon the yeast and trub will displace that liquid in the bottle as it begins to settle out anyway though

I have chucked the brew enhancer in once topped off to brewlength to find it clumps up solidly and no amount of stirring or scraping on the sides is going to break up. The kit yeast was pitched and the expected FG was reached. I think it will probably be fine going by my experience. It's hard...

Worrying too much is usually a given. If you're happy with your results so far you can't be doing too much wrong. That temperature drop may produce a more fermentable wort than desirable, as @Bigcol49 says, for certain beers you want to mash high and maintain that temperature throughout for a...

That is quite a drop in temperature for 60 minutes. A strike temperature of 80 also seems quite high. My strike temperature is usually 70-75 for a 63-68 target mash temp, depending on mash thickness and ambient temperature of course. If you are reaching the target mash temp with that strike...

I would like to but my erlenmeyers are currently 1.5l coke bottles. I should have enough time to either split the first starter and make another 2l of each or add a 3rd step. I could wash it but I dump everything from the kettle (hops are spidered) so i end with quite a lot of trub.

The boss and I sampled some of my wine at the weekend. Not a great result unfortunately. The first batch was promising but finished quite sweet, about 1.000 if I remember correctly. This one was wgj, 2 cans of gooseberries, sugar and tea made up to 4.5 litres. I did undershoot the sugar and...

Finally got my **** together and organised some liquid yeast ahead of Saturday's double brew day. I've went with WLP810 as I've done a couple of cali commons now and have been pleased with the results, it's possibly going to be a housebrew, and WLP644 as I'm doing a leftover IPA and this sounds...

Put me down for 2 please Steve

I have just bottled my first attempt at wine. It finished quite high - 1.005 It was in the FV for more than six weeks and got shook up, stirred and heated to 30C a number of times in the last two weeks in an attempt to get it drier but it just didn't work. I can't remember exact numbers but...

I read the below article recently and I do find it alarming, particularly with the racism and bigotry being spouted profusely by the media. Being of the "snowflake" generation, I haven't lived through enough history or got enough hairs on my chest to shout it down as bollocks...

I got white grape juice from Waitrose a few weeks back. Iirc it was 1.70 a litre.

Glad to hear it!lol I'm a mechanic and I've forgotten most of the the three phase electrics I learned at college. Most of the stuff I work with is three phase and a lot of that is 6kv. It's not uncommon for premises to have three phase installed but as to the price, work involved etc I'm not...

I was going to say that going three phase would involve quite a bit work and expense but if you've already got it then great! If you're not too hot on electrics it might be worth paying a good spark to check over your setup. That's quite a bit of power to run through a domestic setup for the...

Running 2x 2.2kw elements on the one household circuit is dodgy enough for a prolonged period. After a few minutes the cables get quite warm. It would either go on fire or trip well before the hour long boil is up. I have to run each 2.2kw element off different circuit. One comes from the...

You could try these guys. http://www.thehomebrewcompany.co.uk/ Never asked them for a specific crush but its worth a try. They're in Dublin. I'm in Glasgow and the shipping is much the same as anywhere UK or geterbrewed. If you have no success with them, you should be able to use a UK company...

I'm in Glasgow myself, I googled it a while ago and it came up with meeting in brew dog once a week Or something. Not sure if it's a club or what but I never bothered going.