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If you fill your water containers the day before you are going to brew then it will speed you up slightly, as winter approaches tap water will be a lot colder, pre filling your water beforehand will allow the water temp to rise by as much as 10 degrees depending on your interior temps.

Airlock activity or lack of is no guarantee and solely relying on that can be dangerous. For finings to work properly you will needed to have thoroughly degassed the wine and for it to have fully stopped fermenting first.

It's fairly straightforward maths, all you need to know is the starting volume of alcohol which you take as 100% before you make your calc's. As Simon says in your case it's approx 1.1litres (1170ml) as 6.5% of 18000 ml. If its weaker brews you want it's an easier solution to just use smaller...

You would have 6% by adding 1.5l of water but with priming sugar added that would then go back up by about .1 - .2% depending on how much sugar you add. To get it down to 5% abv you would need to add around 5 litres of water.

Wine will clear and degas itself over time, degassing is usually done to speed up the process when finings are going to be used.

Sodium percarbonate (oxi bleach) will break down to nothing more than water, oxygen and soda powder, you would use this for cleaning with and it is considered as eco friendly, for sanitising after cleaning use starsan which is reusable and non rinse so in essence you aren't putting it down your...

You need to use a bigger tub than 10l if you want to combine 2x5l, there will need to be space left for fermentation which can be quite active in some brews depending on yeast/temp. I would put no more than 6l into a 10 litre tub.

A 10 litre tub like those will be about a foot wide.

Ask down your local chippy or chinese how they buy in there mayo or gravy, it will be in tubs like these http://www.eatbig.co.uk/shop/condiments/hellmanns-real-mayonnaise-10-litre-bulk-tub/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkZiw6-Ch1gIVx8myCh0kZwGeEAQYASABEgKk3_D_BwE If they use them then ask for there empties...

Why not make it in such a way that it looks like it is being dispensed from the Jerry can but in fact just run the beer line down thru it into a cornie?

"After my brew had been in the bucket for about a week I noticed that it had stopped fermenting as it had an initial bubbling phase and then seemed to stop" This is when you should have first used a hydrometer to check exactly what point your brew was at, airlock activity or lack of is no...

A general rule of thumb when brewing 23l batches is 1kg of base malt will give you 1% alcohol, adjuncts/priming etc will add very little to this, if you want circa 4% beer and the recipe is giving you 5% then just go with 1kg less of base malt, scaling down the adjuncts is up to you but remember...

Unless your yeast is sticking to the arse of the bottle always leave a 1/4-1/2" beer in the bottle and you shouldn't have any problem, time in a fridge should help with keeping it stuck.

The termination is actually pretty straight forward, the 15mm outer pipe would be connected to one end of a 15mm compression tee, the inner pipe (10mm) would be allowed to run straight on thru the tee. On this smaller end of the tee you would fit a 15x10mm reducing set to seal the joint from the...

Headline grabbing 2m towards getting a school connected, yet they paid out 220m to avoid being taken to court by other businesses due to false accounting, or to use politician speak 110 schools could have benefited. From what i read a few months back regarding there crowd funding for the remote...

Yeah right, BT want you to fund something that they install, charge line rental on and charge you to use and then fob you of when you dare complain about the standard of there crap connections. Other euro countries had 10mb connections almost 20 years ago installed as standard in new housing...

Brass compression fittings cost an absolute fortune, brass also can contain trace elements of lead. Using lead free solder, joints can be prone to cracking if heavily abused. The more joints you have either compression or solder then the more places for dirt to gather up. The larger diameter...

Are you using a heat source to apply heat during the mash at any point?

Brewferm Stainless steel malt mill. Just bought this today and a few things hit me about it almost right away. The hopper is 4 pieces of aluminium, disadvantages of that are that it is extremely easy to damage so care will be needed during it's lifetime to prevent it going badly out of shape...

I would agree with Marty, once you have controlled the initial boil and have stirred in the proteins, added the hops then start your timer when it's able to be left alone.