Recent content by luanero

Hi fellow brewers, I did a brew last weekend, a larger (with SAF 23) and 7-days on the thing is still bubbling. I have the primary fermenter in a fridge set at 12 deg C. It's also emitting somewhat of a malty smell (via the air lock) that might just be sickly sweet, but it's not exactly...

generous posters - i hope you're as liberal with your beer as you are your words, but let me reply in turn... Hatchy - no the freezer itself is not sanitised, but the vessels (2 & 4l ice cream containers) in which boiling water is poured & sealed i think are thereby rendered safe. Indeed...

ok, thanks QB for your thoughtful reply. I think we agree on the efficiency thing, however from what you say I do seem to have misunderstood the term "runnings", which I had thought included the sparge water. This being the case then what I'm suggesting is; how can I modify a typical recipe...

I'm about to embark on AG, but I'm thinking of bringing along some old baggage from the extract days... My wort cooling system. It involves boiling/hopping with a concentrated wort (e.g. 15l), then dumping 10l of pre-boiled ice into the kettle at flame out. It pretty "cool" to watch the...

Thankfully i can say that, for once in my life, I've managed to fulfill a New Year's resolution; I have now brewed beer! Well that was last year and now I figure there's not much left to justify such foolishness (making NYRs), so I plan to pretty much continue "as is" until the next stroke of...

I've been trying a few of the Three Sheets beers and I'm loving them. Could anyone supply a recipe that I could use to make a similar beer? I'm unfortunately using kits at the moment, but I hope to be going AG next year so any sort of recipe would be appreciated... Marty