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As our water is as hard as rocks here (317ppm) we have a salt based water softener installed. As far as I understand this works by replacing Ca ions with Na ions in certain ratio? Is it possible to work out, knowing the calcium concentration from a water report, roughly how much sodium is...

No problem. Yeah, I only had to do the Facebook thing once, and back then it was pretty painless. Just a shame to be able to push out FF and Chrome versions and have to wait so long for Opera. Ah well. The source is available on Github if anyone is interested https://github.com/Svenito/brewconvert

Having looked into the Opera extension review process, it could take weeks or months to get through. So here's a nex file which you can download and double click. It should then open it with Opera and appear installable via the extensions manager...

I just did a salifert test on the ashbeck water and its dKH is 1.9 which gives a 33.82 ppm If anyone is interested

Thanks for telling me about it. I thought I had fixed that, but clearly not.I'll update soon! EDIT: Uploaded new versions to Chrome and Firefox stores

Yeah, converting volumes to weight isn't so straightforward :)

Updated the Firefox extension to V 0.3. Just added an icon basically. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/brewconvert/ Have also uploaded a Chrome version https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/brew-convert/jcdkojonmmoljmglhlbampboocmemhfc The Opera version is currently being...

I would use HBC, but I haven't got anywhere to store 25kg of malt - yet. I'm also don't want to buy a single brew's worth of kit, so I have to go with somewhere that will sell me 5-15 kg of malt. Perhaps if I can find someone to go halves with, HBC will be a good option

Had an email at the weekend from GEB stating "Our sale is ending soon and we have just restocked across all the ranges, fresh liquid yeast arriving this week too" Was hoping they'd restock the yeasts soon!

Might see about porting it to chrome and opera at some stage then :)

Now available from the firefox add-on site too. Updated from the above https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/brewconvert/

K-97 seems to be flocculating quite rapidly too.

I'm a metric person, and most texts or recipes online are in imperial, and I got bored of jumping to a converter on the phone or web to figure out exactly what the conversion is. So I wrote a small extension that converts the units in the context menu. You can download BrewConvert here...

New one for the list maybe? Found this in Tesco yesterday Nørge ø It's unfiltered and unpasteurised. Seems like it's got a decent bit of yeast still in it. They do a Saison, Pale Ale, and another type (forgot what now), but the labels are all the same except for the colour of the lettering...

I expected it to work for that reason, just wasn't expecting it to work so well. I'm gonna do the shake and ferm from now on. Except maybe with low flocculant yeasties

Thanks Steve. I'll shoot him a mail

I made mine out of an old PC fan, one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00Y2AV4G8/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 , an old plastic box, and use an old PC power supply to power it. The power supplies have a handy 12V rail you can run the fans off of

I was just out walking the dog and a woman was filling bottles from the fountain in our village. I offered her my empty 5l bottles from my last brew and enquired what she did with the water, as she had an entire boot full of bottles. She said they drink it as it's better and has not got as many...

My fermentation slowed somewhat after 4 days, so I decided to give the FV a quick swish around and now it's bubbling like it did at the start. Can only recommend to give your FV a slosh around if you feel your fermentation has slowed but not finished. Thanks to this forum for the idea

Can you not just install a regular OEM windows (I assume)?