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I am like a dog with two dicks, given all the possibilities of brewing. This yeast which I will be re-using will go into an a similar recipe, but without the sugar (hopefully). Then I'm planning on trying some pressure fermentation [but not with the same yeast, which has adapted to normal pressure.]

A few days ago I moved the tank around and inadvertently re-started bubbling. That lasted for about a day. I left the tank out for a couple of nights to cold crash it, hoping that the yeast would fall to the bottom. This evening I bottled. The gravity was now 6.1% to 6.17%. I used an...

I checked the gravity again. I didn't stir before checking the gravity. This is from the top, if that makes any difference. This reading is 8 days after the last reading. I'm planning on checking each day for the next two days and bottling if it has basically stopped fermenting. I will be...

I have a metal fermentation vessel which has a space for another open/close valve where I plug in the airlock. If I make the vessel air tight, is this pressure fermenting? Is it likely to blow up? I guess I could get a blow off valve fitted instead of sealing everything.

Thanks for the write up, and congratulations on a great brew. I am a novice. I have a few questions to clarify if I understood your post. You have given me some ideas which will improve my own brews. Do you have a 30 liter tank? I guessed this from you mentioning a total volume of about 23...

Next time I will make a check list as I have forgotten something in each of my two beer runs. The tank which I ferment in has a steel insert which you can place to sit 1/4 of the way up the 30 liter tank. It has drain holes, so it is perfect for sparging. I can leave the bag of grains on top of...

The idea of giving a mix of sugars, that the yeast can feast on in different stages of fermentation, grabs me by the imagination. Thanks for the suggestion of using brew software. I will start looking into it. Does anyone ever boil up sugars in water to use for sparging in the case when it...

How do I have 90% attenuation at this stage? Does it come from the oxygenation which I added a week ago (frisking in air with a whisk)? I read that the yeast cell membrane needs oxygen for cell health. I wonder if my second oxygenation gave the yeast a boost. Or it could be that I ended up...

If I want to reuse the yeast for my next batch, do I leave the tank out in cold (but not freezing) temperatures to cause the yeast to fall to the bottom of the tank, so that I can scoop it out once I've siphoned off and bottled the beer?

I ended up boiling water and adding brown sugar, caster sugar, honey, maple syrup, which was all I had around, and bumping the gravity to about 1.050. But I had over filled the tank by misjudging how much more water I needed. I probably have 4 inches space plus the convex lid at the top of the...

Would using a packet of Glucoamylase suit you? or would it make the wort too dry? BTW, what sort of price would a home grinder cost? I have pre-crushed malted barley but I didn't get finely crushed as I should have.

Thanks. I was concerned because my beer stopped bubbling after the first 24 hours of bubbling and I thought I would have to open it up to do some wort surgery. That is why I asked. Luckily it turned out the airlock was slightly twisted and letting CO2 escape. I set it right and it is back to...

You can't get people to accept a dictatorship from one day to the next. You need the co-operation of a lot of people who have to be told some kind of story. They have to get something out of it. For some people, moral grand standing is enough. Others are going to want ££££, like scientists who...

Because of contamination or some other reason? Should I be worried about opening a fermenter to take a sample to check it with a hydrometer?

Did you see this old interview with a Soviet defector? He said that at a certain stage of ideological subversion you could show people all of the documents, all of the proof, that they have been tricked, but they can't accept it. Here is a clip. The whole interview, and his talks, are very valuable.

Is there a sanitary way to add oxygen to this beer? If you sanitized a whisk, or the detachable whisks from an electric whisker, is there a big risk for contamination? I wonder if anyone tried using an "oxygeniser" like a device for pumping air into a fish tank? How about adding some...

I love pies. I saw that you can buy ready rolled short crust pastry. I will have to have a go at making one. I made some Danish pastries with puff pastry. Very easy.

Do you believe that people paid to promote the climate change story have models which can predict the future weather decades ahead over the tiny variation in CO2 that western nations can make, out of the tiny proportion of CO2 that is man made anyway, given that the big future and present...

I am glad you share my enjoyment of pie charts. We should really have a sub forum somewhere. Firstly, do the actions of our governments seem consistent with the idea there is a CO2 emergency? Why would they be allowing Africans and other third world people to come to Europe to live a high CO2...