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One of my friends has asked me to brew a traditional London porter for him... or at least what he thinks one was. Traditional, in the sense that it's what London porters working on the Thames back in the 17/1800s. We spent a jolly nice weekend 'testing' out a bunch of dark beers. What he's...

I'm going to join a friend making cider from his tree on Saturday. I've never done cider before, and neither has he. He's got this kit https://www.brewbitz.com/products/home-made-cider-starter-package-10-litres. Without going over the top, what else has he missed (he has a scratter/press etc)...

Pretty-much universally, all the beers I brew are ales so fermenting in the utility room provides decent-enough temperature control, sitting at 19-21 degrees year round except hot summers. I've swamp-cooled my fermenter before. I've been playing with electronics for a while now, and don't have...

Does anyone else get fermentation profiles like this? Fermentation drops with a normal profile and "almost finishes" but then has a long tail where it gradually drops the last few SG points over a week or two - rather than just finishing and staying at a stable SG. I have this sometimes (every...

I'm replumbing some of my brewing equipment. As a result I've been pumping water from my grainfather through the CFC and into the fermenter. There was a bit of a pong just now (sulphurous/fart smell) when the first water came through. Up until now, I've always cleaned the CFC straight after...

Welcome to the July comp. Belgian beers is the theme. I'm happy to accept anything that you think might be Belgian. Wit, saison, tripel, dubbel, grisette, blonde, amber, pils etc etc. Judging will be at a yet-to-be-disclosed time in August, whenever I figure out when it's best to have it! If...

I'm not sure whether this is perception thing, or practises have changed over the years or it's a different culture in different countries. I did a fair amount of brewery tours about 10-20 years ago, both a proper "tour" and an ad-hoc "drop in to chat with the brewer" kind. Both ranging from...

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Having brewed the same recipe a few times over and slightly different results each time (and having done slightly different things each time too), in wondering what I need to do to try to push that "Belgian Abbey/Trappist flavour" to the max. I'm rubbish at describing flavours and have read a...

I have 31 pint sized brown glass homebrew bottles to give away. Pickup from the Southampton area (I am open to deliveries if I happen to be passing your direction... Feel free to ask)

My GF Counterflow chiller is getting slightly annoying. It has 4 permanently attached hoses which get in the way a lot when you're trying to move/clean/attach/pack it and it's light fighting with half an octopus a times. I've not done much plumbing work before, and found this handy guide on the...

I've never really actually looked at the cold break forming in the sample jar. I normally just take a sample, carry on with the transfer/cleanup and read it later. Going into the sample jar was really cloudy today, which was odd because it's normally really clear. 20 minutes later I noticed it...

Sad news https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/05/black-sheep-brewery-enters-administration/

Does anyone else on here use HomeAssistant for their geeky automation? It was mentioned on a few iSpindel threads before. Anyway, I've had an iSpindel for a while, and after a cold winter got myself a heat-belt. I've only-just now got the two wired together so I have thermostatic control of my...

I get chill haze that clears after a couple of weeks in the cold garage when it's cold. I thought I'd photograph it over the course of a 2 week period in the fridge. The beer was fermented and conditioned at 20C until it was cleared, then put in the fridge at ~9 degrees for 2 weeks...

After many many years using an inversion chiller, I moved to a CFC with the grainfather purchase a couple of years ago. For those who use CFCs, how long do you wait after the end of the boil before transferring/cooling your wort (when not deliberately doing a hop stand)? I used to chill...

Efficiency comes up a lot as it's very easy to measure sugar extraction from your mash/sparge/process. But it's a lot harder to measure flavour extraction. I've been thinking about it for a while and @peebee made a similar comment here In my mind, there is no clear link between sugar extraction...

We've just had a water softener installed with our new kitchen (loving it). The engineer/scientist in me is how wondering how they work. I've done lots of searches for it, and largely get publicly videos saying how great they are and the benefits, and even the more technical ones only go as far...

My wife is keen for me to make a New Zealand IPA. We had one last year (Magic Dragon's Dolphin, which is apparently brewed with Motueka). Nelson Sauvin also sounds interesting (as we are both a fan of Malrborough Sauvignon blanc as well). But having not used the hops before, I don't have much...

Does anyone have advice on bottle rinsers? There seem to be a couple on the market. Are they any good? Is the big one better than the small one or vice versa? https://www.thehomebrewcompany.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3657...