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Thank you everyone for your input, I’d forgotten about my magnifier lamp which is sitting in the cupboard 😂 I’ll have to fetch it out, it will give SWMBO another thing to have a moan about, roll on my shed build

Diolch 👍

Try Adams gas they seem to have stockists down your way

Thanks for the reply, it’s a strawberry & lime turbo cider for the kids (grown up kids haha) they like the sweet flavoured ciders, so gave it a go. I used a sweetened yeast for cider and it’s plenty sweet for my liking. I’m more bitter, ipa & stout. Hope to finish my shed extension this spring...

Being partially blind I can’t read the scale on a hydrometer unless I take a photo that I can then zoom wonder if someone could help how I work out the abv, I guess I should invest in a tilt or similar The pre ferment I read as 60 so is that 1.060 ? The second 2 graduations below 1.000 or in...

You would need a mixed gas regulator for stout, although you could use co2, but yes it does give you a choice of pressures to run 2 kegs

West coast ipa please 👍

I’ve been on the FB page there seems to be issues with the taps leaking and loosing a lot of beer when venting. Not a route I’ll be following though, I’ve yet to brew a AG batch but that’s down to getting my shed finished and sorted 🍺

What is that basket, where did you purchase it?

Nice build, something I will be attempting in the not too distant future🍺

Well the cider turned out quite nice, very lively if not chilled, but after a couple of hours in the fridge a nice fizzy cider🍺

I’m waiting on a bottom drain bits & pieces to arrive then I’ll look at a suitable element for it had a row off SWMBO as she found the big parcel in my shed😂 Been thinking of a grain basket to fit inside but there bleeding expensive

My Bergland 60 L thermo pot has arrived, I better move on with my shed extension so that I can get brewing😁👍🍻🍻

When I eventually go down the AG route I’ve been thinking of a converted thermo pot as a all in one type of thing using a grain basket inside it. Now I don’t want to buy one and then later on regret I didn’t buy a larger pot, I can’t afford the all singing all dancing types, hence the converted...

Thanks ever so much for your replies everyone. Mixing my ibu & ebc up 😂 . Had the recipe off brewersfriend it is for a goose island ipa clone. I’m still learning and compiling a few recipes ready for the completion of my brew-shed Thanks again

Is there an idiots guide to grains? I’ve looked at some recipes which call for crystal 90, crystal 45 etc and looking for example on Geterbrewed there’s crisp light crystal, crisp med, crisp dark. With corresponding IBUs no’s. The table below has 2 columns PPG and L are these some sort of...

140g of table sugar in 10 litres will give you a carbonation level of 4.5 vols. My limited understanding of ciders is that even the most fizzy ciders do not exceed 3 vols and many are a lot lower. 4.5 vols may well put you into gusher territory. Just went with recommendations on here of 6/7g...

Something for me to build in the future, so posting here as it’s easier to find next time😁

Hi Neil are these ready to use, do they need calibration etc. I’m partialy blind and think this might be a way forward for me, I really struggle to read a hydrometer

I’ve just bottled 10 litres of summer fruits TC, syphoned in to a clean bucket added 140g dissolved sugar and 30 sweetener tablets in a jug gave it a gentle but thorough mix then bottled. Had a seal of approval from the daughters other half on the taste, we shall see in a month😁