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Ahh, I can see it better now on the other pictures, I thought that blistery bit was your knobbly elbow

I got a response from Steve at Crossmyloof already. "Five's not available yet, but hopefully will be this week. 28c is the limit and no typo. The Norsk is also a good high temp yeast with clean qualities, so maybe worth a try?" I wouldn't try to over-think yeasts yet, but choose your yeast...

How did you manage to burn your elbow, did you dip it in to see if bath water was cool enough for the yeasties?

Wow, do you do that for all your beers? Do you get it down to predicted OG or just above? Do you transfer into bottling bucket? What are your final results like compared to conventional?

Do you mean after 3 to 6 days in Secondary?

Could those be used on something like a sweet stout?

Ahh, I think there might have been a little sachet of this in the kit I used hence it not getting that dry. I've got 7 bottles which have been in the cellar for about 9 months (insert walking down cellar stairs emoji here) It's actually got much better, none of the harshness of the cheapest...

How did you stop them?

I have only done a two Wilko reds as the starter kits were on offer, £5 with a demi john and the DJs were £8 on their own! Came out ok but I wouldn't bother with it again. It didn't get fizzy but they do hiss a little when I take the tops off, so I reckon any sugary additions would make for even...

That's one hell of a recipe for an experiment! I'm not sure if that fruitiness came from using EKG in higher amounts than I have before, the yeast or the temp. My last 8 brews have been 6x 370g Meriden malt extract, 150-500g Brewers sugar, 30-40ibu, 4-5%, 16-18c, CML yeasts. Only have a very...

You shouldn't expect any flavour from this yeast, it should be slightly drier, cleaner and slightly less body than an English Ale yeast. CML have some new premium yeasts. One is called 'five' which seems to be a copy of US-05 but claims to have a range of 17-28c. For some reason the website...

Which hops have you been using? I only got those flavours with Bramling Cross, but the blackcurrent flavours I did get were so intense that I'm not that keen, it's managed to survive 3 weeks in the bottle which is rare for me!

Ahhh, so the bazooka is for the hops later and the false bottom is to keep the bag off the element?

I just looked at the instructions. So did you have problems with draining the wort? Even if it all went to plan wouldn't it be a pain in the a*s* cleaning all the grain out before you try and pour boiling hot wort back in. I was tempted for a minute but think I will wait and get a coolbox and...

I would mash 200g each of rolled oats, black malt, crystal and roasted barley on the hob. Then use 2x cooper stout, 500g brown sugar and a few jars of H&B malt extract or a bag of wilkos brew enhancer. Maybe throw in 10g of Target hop pellets.

Hi, what equipment did you buy and what was your beef with the bazooka?

I once 'invested' in 25kg of Muntons Dark LME. I then proceeded to make a series of 'stouts' which all looked and tasted like cheap whisky and coke. I ended up making one last massive RIS and tipping the rest away. Said brew has been banished to the shed for over a year now, I tried one the...

Hi, when I started using kits I always got the twang. Currently I brew with Meriden Malt Extract, no more than 500g of brewers sugar and CML yeast; English Ale or US Pale in summer, Kolsch or Cal Com in winter due to my cellar temperature. Two weeks in primary, two weeks in secondary, two weeks...

Hi, what's your location? I know your selling for 50 delivered but I might be interested in a lower price buyer collects