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+1, I will be contacting them when I get home . . . but with a different hat on ;)

Still going on today, especially by the PubCos :hmm: :hmm: When working at MB I was present at one meeting where figures were presented showing that the interest rates on some of these barrelage loans was in excess of 5000% . . . No that was not a typo!! IIRC one case in question was a 500...

I was working for Matthew Brown at the time and we had to get rid of 2000 pubs in the north west of England. It actually didn't achieve anything like it was intended to, i.e increase beer variety, and in fact made it much easier for the breweries to shed the pubs to 'newly formed' pub companies...

That's a tricky one? The muntons wheat spray malt is 40:60 pale : wheat, so however much of that you need to hit 1.052-1.054 . . .keep everything else the same

may not be, it does depend on if the kit is made within a couple of hundred yards of a real hop, or they just use pre isomerised, chemically treated hop resin. if it's the latter then you can get away with it, but beer made with proper hops . . .that can be a serious issue.

Some debate on that, personally I find that either a french press or an espresso are both acceptable methods, I'm not particularly keen on perc'd coffee though. As far as instant is concerned . . . it makes F all difference to the most important thing, the taste, if the milk goes in first or...

+1 for JKP. I hate Starbucks and costa with a passion . . I'd much rather have my own coffee than anything from a 'chain'. I will either use a drench press, or my stove top espresso unit . As for instant . . . I drink water . . .although Carte Noire is quite palatable.

Then you would use half the amounts from the final column which is for a 1% free chlorine bleach

I've used the hypochlorous acid approach described on BBR, it works well, Chlorinated caustics (ie Bleach) are hampered in their effectiveness as the caustic prevents the formation of a decent level of hypochlorous acid (the disinfectant) . . .so you have to use a stronger concentration of it...

It is also excellent for making beer kits, all the trace element will have come from the water used to mash the grain, as well as from the grain, as mentioned by Martin. Therefore for kits it is fine to use RO Water . . . For all grain I'm less convinced, as I brew with water that pretty much...

No One, Sensible offers?? Will be going back on eBay otherwise

being blunt if you don't then there really is no point in using BrunWater. The Alkalinity will change with all the rain, but what that means is that it should drop, meaning that the mash pH should be lower, as you should have an alkalinity lower than the last time you brewed . . . If you are...

Consider getting other brewers to taste your beers. It's difficult to identify what is wrong without actually tasting it. The London Amateur Brewersmeet regularly, and they do tasting sessions of each others beers. There are some very well qualified beer judges as members, who should be able to...

I'm about to report a non paying bidder :twisted: :twisted:

I'm not sure it works on budget barrels, but for W&D Drum type taps, you can buy a plastic turkey baster in Wilkos for pennies, cut it to just over the length of you glass, and it push fits onto the tap with ease, and makes serving from the barrels with that type of tap a breeze

The bad mash took 24 hours to drain . . . and even then retained 20 odd litres of wort

Good Mash Bad Mash Funnily enough I had no issue when I was running the Herms . . . Just when I tried to sparge it . . .All the Glucans (It was an oatmeal stout) . . . just gummed up one of the tuns . . .both of which have a full diameter false bottom . . .And the bad mash had oat husks as...

I would go with 5-10% of the weight of the wheat in the grist so 2Kg of Wheat malt . . . 150-200g oat hulls

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There is no doubt that filtering a beer will remove bittering compounds . . . Will we notice it? No As long as we are not filtering with a 0.1 micron absolute filter then the 'damage' that is being dome is not huge. I have used a 1 micron nominal spun polyprop filter cartridge to filter my...