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Thanks for replies. No I didn’t mean carbonating, I was thinking along the lines of high strength Belgian beers that take several weeks to fully develop. If they were in the fermenters for 4 weeks I was just interested how they would maintain temperatures in the range of 20c+. Appreciate that...

I’ve been trying to find the answer to this without success. How do small breweries maintain temperature of their fermenters. I have a brew fridge so can manage temperature control on a small scale. When a brewery ferments I know they have cooling jackets or cooling coils in the fermenter to...

I’ve just had a report done by Phoenix analytical, send him a bottle of your tap water, he will analyse it and send a full report back. I paid £26. Sorry for adding link to another forum https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=81204&hilit=Phoenix

I don’t mind, the more the merrier!

Good stuff, hopefully they are to your liking

Have posted 2 different bottles today, I’ve never done any labels before so written the details on a bit of paper and stuck it to the bottle so nothing fancy!

Could you pm your address and I will try and get one in the post. Is it one entry per person or could I send 2? Cheers

I’m not a fan my wife got me a voucher for my birthday, I had no interest in signing up to a monthly subscription and only wanted to use the voucher I got, however there was no way to do it without our signing up and giving my bank account details to set a monthly account up. I queried this and...

Does anyone know the postage costs from them, can’t find it anywhere on their website. Grain is quite well priced, might stock up with grain and try some of the hops

Thanks for the replies. I sent brewers select a message but never got a reply. Yeh I’d found the hop index after I’d posted, think I will give these a miss and pay a bit more for fresh

Brewers select have some cheap hops available, however they are 2013 and 2014, they state they are stored at 4c, will they of lost too much AA’s

I did similar to use started starter on Wednesday, there was a lot of activity and I was wondering when it would disappear, Thursday night it was still going strong, checked it this morning and the Krausen has disappeared. I would leave it on tonight and see what it’s like in the morning. My...

Thanks for this, I will take a look. I don’t think I will do a third stage as the link you sent suggests that inoculation rate bewteen 25 and 100 million should be done and unless i pitch 7 L I won’t get that. I think I need to start with a smaller starter and build up next time rather than 3L...

I turned the stir plate off to try and get it to settle down, there was still some foam that over flowed but then it came down by the morning, it may of settled down as the temperature dropped to 15, the stir plate gives off heat and managers to maintain temperature. I then turned it back on...

Thanks for your reply, not made the beer yet was planning ahead, going to make it Monday. Was also going to do a third stage to build the yeast so I could store some for future use! I was following the brewers friend yeast calculator and was planning to do a third stage and add another 4l...

After some advice on a yeast starter, I’m making a 40l batch using white labs WLP550, aiming for an abv of about 8, so doing a 2 stage starter. I’ve done the first one drained off the wort and added more water and dme after boiling and cooling it. I started the second starter about 3 today, I...

There’s no harm in adding to a bottling bucket, add cooled boiled sugar mixture to bottling bucket first transfer beer to this then bottle, but don’t worry about strainer. If adding sugar straight to primary, stir it in and then kettle settle for about 20 minutes. I generally transfer to a...

I’m thinking of also adding a whirlpool arm to BK, what’s the best height to add this at in relation to the wort volume?

You can either transfer to a secondary bottling bucket or just transfer directly from your Demi John to bottles, dont worry about the sediment, I wouldn’t use a strainer, the sediment should just sit at the bottom and be left behind, if you put it in a cold place a lot of the suspended particles...

Thanks all for advice much appreciated, I have an immersion chiller already and although easy to use and wash wanted to explore something more effective, I managed to get a used 125kw 30 plate one that had only been used twice with cam locks on, so have ordered this.