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daft question but did you use extra pale marris otter malt or something else? as just getting the ingredients to make this myself :)

anyone bought or used one of these?

Do people find having a fan to circulate the air makes a big difference? as was thinking of building one of these myself soon but hadnt considered putting a fan in

Hi guys Was just wondering if anyone knows of any kegarator systems/coolers that can fit and use mini kegs in the UK. Ive seen a few products in the US but nothing that you can seem to buy over here.

I pitched it at 20 degrees. I take your point about the dark beers taking longer as the larger yeast will work better at lower temps! Still have the same problem with my wheat beer although again using an ale yeast

Interesting I've read about using champagne yeast to do something similar but fellow Brewers had concerns it would 'dry' the beer out. Did u put it in your secondary for a few days to make sure it wasn't fermenting like crazy then bottling once it had settled or just add then bottle which I...

Im just about to bottle up my Imperial russian porter that has been brewing for the past wee while. Ive been having a problem recently of getting the beer to carbonate after secondary fermentation. My last beer took 3 months to be carbonated and my other batch is still not carbonated and its...

Hiya mate! Good luck with the brew! If you need a hand or advice on where to pick stuff up let me know as based in Aberdeen as well!

Need some quick advice my brew predictably is going mental and incredibly active, have created blow off valve as thought this might happen but still isnt coping and is starting to come up the blow off valve. Is there anything I can do?!?!? Ive included a photo of my current set up below. Its...

Havent decided fully if going to use it or not, been reading up on brewing these sort of beers and a lot of brewery's seem to use the champagne yeast to get the brew up those last few percentage points. Although with a sufficient yeast starter it should probably over come this. But i dont know...

Hiya guys been talking on the forum about doing this recipe for a while but havent had the time to make it. I wanted a challenge and this beer has a number of elements that I havent really worried about before. Namely making a massive yeast starter since it is such a high gravity beer and also...

Thanks not seen those calculators before! Really useful! Cheers

Just opened the first bottle today! and its awesome, about the right colour, still needs a little time to clear and most importantly it tastes bang on! lovely toffee, caramel and vanilla flavours with a slight alcohol tinge at the end! Hopefully it will continue to improve with age! :)

Hiya Folks, So have been looking for a good russian imperial stout recipe and found one from byo. So going to have a go of this with a few tweaks https://byo.com/stories/issue/item/3128-stone-imperial-russian-stout-clone Recipe: 5 gallons/19 L, partial mash) OG = 1.096 FG = 1.020...

Its pretty hard to find original topics and I imagine this has already been discussed a fair bit, but do people find a big difference between 1) putting in their priming sugar into their fementer and leaving it a day before bottling or 2) putting the sugar cubes or granules directly...

I have to agree with the guys above, the Inkbird controller is cheaper and dose pretty much everything you need and is a good quality product! Its also really easy to use! Would recomend for anyone!

Found this recipe which looks awesome which will be my next challenge! Just need to figure out how to connect a blow of valve to a normal fementer lid without drilling holes into it https://byo.com/stories/issue/item/3128-stone-imperial-russian-stout-clone

Decided to brew another one of my favourite recipes which is Blue Moon - a North American Wheat beer made with coriander and orange. I stole a recipe from http://www.eckraus.com/blog/blue-moon-recipe-clone-extract-all-grain with a few minor modifications for weights Specs: OG 1.055 F.G 1.014...

Hi Guys Im also looking for an imperial stout extract/partial mash recipe rather than an all grain, ive found a few online http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=31763 http://www.keystonehomebrew.com/2013/07/what-should-be-in-your-fermenter-russian-imperial-stout/...

thanks for all the help guys appreciate it, never realised how much maths was involved in all of this until recently! and will squeeze and sparge away @cheapbrew - grains used were 500 pilsner malt, 500g wheat malt, 500 g of flaked oats