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Hi Sadfield, Thanks for your answer! Yeah with yield I meant brewhouse efficiency (I am yet quite familiar with all terminology in English). I considered lowering it. But isn't 55% extremely low, even for such beers? My last 10% beer even had around 70% yield. But i've never went up beyond...

Hey guys, are you more experienced with brewing recipes from brewdog? I've inserted the recipe of AB:05 in my brewing software and what I get just doesn't seem to add up to what they present in the recipe. My calculations give a much much higher OG and a lot darker beer. With the same...

Hi mancer, Isn't there any instruction on the liquid malt extract? Something like yields OG of 1.XXX when mixed with XL water?

Interesting correction proposed by Drunkula. Roasted malts however seem to be very foam positive (Combe AL, Ang JK, Bamforth CW. 2013).!

Interesting, thank you! I have not looked at the Combe paper they refer to. That paper is more recent than the review I summerised from. That being said, I have of course not read all the papers that make up the list of foam effects that I presented. Only the review. That would be a bit too...

From what I read I would say you do have carbonation! Does the beer fizzes in your mouth? Does it give a pop when it opens? If you pour it from a height, does it give rapid bubbles/foam. It sounds more like you don't have foam/head retention. You say you have "smattered" your beers with dark...

Well, the colour is defined by the grain bill haha :D.

Yeah, just make it yourself. You just take some tubing, fix it to your FV and lead it through a sterile environment. Try searching for how to make a blow off tube. It'll be easy, I guarantee it.

Nope, doesn't matter where the air lock is for it to work. As long as it is above liquid level of course haha. But still, on the top is the best. The lower the airlock is situated the higher the chance the foam reaches it.

Define simple? Some styles are quite clear, others are not. A weizen for instance is always something like 50% pils malt, 50% wheat malt. Even more important, do you really care? Make any beer you like :)! Use the styles as inspiration, but do whatever you want.

Personally i use: - STC-1000 -An old frige (cupboard and cooling source in one). -And an old fashioned light bulb for heating. Works perfectly, and it costs next to nothing. Really, a light bulb creates heat in 95% effiency. If anything happens, it just breaks and it stops heating. Its the...

Hi Johny, It really depends on what kind of beer you want to make. You really need to give more information, you don't mention how much for instance. But in general, fuggles is a lovely hop. But in itself not an IPA hop.

I love the STC-1000's. They cost like 5 quid and work terrific.

Never had this issue. Not even when I visited a friend and they put the beer on the side. I just have a large smear of yeast on the side of the bottle. But if you carefully pour you usually not even pour yeast in the bottle.

Yea will work no problem :). Just give em a few a days to rest after you put them up right.

I will be very sorry when the UK permanently leaves us :(. Such a hassle when I want to visit the UK. I'm glad I can go the UK for an internship now that it is still possible.

` No you're completely right! Dry hopping is always named apart and I should have been more specific. I was mixing thing a bit up in my head while writing. Yeah its really interesting. I also have trouble with head many times. Alright guys, I did my best to compile a more specific list! Most...

Sorry! I should have been more specific. I was way off/specific. You are a 100% correct, hops can increase the foam stability! Unless you dry-hop: https://hopsteiner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-06_TS_Foamstability.pdf So basically: Alpha-acids increase foam stability (i.e. bitterness)...

Lots of hop also decreases head retention. Don't expect an American style IPA to have a brilliant head. Edit: Sadfield is very much correct! Alpha acids increase head retention. However, dry hopping seems to decrease head retention.

You probably left it wet before you put it away or something? If you put the barrel in storage when it's completely dry and leave the top open then this will not happen. But anyway, in such a case I would use the intensive cleaning agent (NaOH with active chloride). Never had any biological...