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Anyone used this yet EasyClean No Rinse Sanitiser 250ml Looks the same as starsan but cheaper...

I always thought this looked like the best compromise between the system and cost Maischfest Mash Kettle

I think most people on this thread are looking for a no rinse sanitiser for easy bottling. There are many easy cheap ways to sanitise if you don’t mind rinsing, which isn’t much bother with 5 containers. It becomes a lot more hassle with 40 or so bottles. We are listening, you’re not providing...

I'm totally confused with all this. I've only been brewing all grain BIAB for about 8 months but got 10 or 12 brews done with 1 minor infection and that was due to an old PB with a crack inside, which has been binned. I'm stingy so I have just used the bleach and acid option but because I'm a...

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Just taken a sample and mine has hit 1.007 so 1 point off the target of 1.006. I guess I'll check Sunday and if it's the same I'll bottle. It was at about 19C but it was Nottingham, which seems like a really easy yeast. The sample didn't taste great though! I was trying to do it quick so thought...

Thanks @johncrobinson. Next question is then, how much nutrient for 100ml? ive found 5g of sugar for 100ml water gives about 1.020 gravity but not really used yeast nutrient before!

I want to try this, simply because of the lack of yeast at the moment, but I don’t have any DME. would table sugar and a bit of yeast nutrient work? Or would this stress the yeast?

Thanks for the replies, @MyQul that's really helpful thanks. I've not used the Hallertauer hops before so quite interested. They were really cheap, and I thought they might get flavour in without too much bettering?

Hi Everyone, yesterday I thought I'd have a go at a low alcohol beer (drinking too much through boredom!). The recipe is below it's my own creation so please feel free to tell me what's wrong with it! 15l Maxi BIAB so 4l of bottled water was added to the fermenter after a 40min boil. 1kg Viena...

Thanks Baron. I'll give it a go. I'm pretty new to this and there are so many variables. I have used the S-04 yeast and that seems to be easy, ie no off flavours and flocculates really well. The US05 didn't flocculate very well and I seem to have had some funny flavours, but that's probably lack...

Just thought I'd update this incase someone comes across it! Basically I've just left this brew for about a month and tried today, so about 6 weeks total in the barrel, the funny fruity/ yeast flavour is fading and the hops are coming through. There were a lot of Motueka hops in it and I used...

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Well The cap released very easily. So I let the pressure off carefully expecting a lot of gas but it was a gentle hiss and that was it. The barrel has not gone back into shape. Don’t know what’s going on with it. Guess I’ll just leave it and fingers crossed it will sort itself out. I’m quite...

Hi All, I'm a bit worried about one of my brews. I haven't used my pressure barrel for a while as I've been doing small AG brews. However Ive been finding bottling a bit of a chore so thought I'd give a Maxi BIAB ago. Everything went well, just about hit the right gravity and it hadn't changed...

Cheers drunkula! I’ll check it out. I know it’s not ideal but have you ever just done mash, boil and fermentation in the one vessel? Super lazy brewing!

This is really interesting. Would the standard Young’s/ wilko fermentation buckets be ok to use, are they heat resistant enough? Or have I miss understood? Think I can get an induction job off the in-laws...

What about brew2bottle? Grain seems as cheap as anywhere and postage is £2.95. Plus if you sign up you get 5% off.