Recent content by Matty Groves

Even though I swear the packet suggests rehydrating

I pitched some of this last night - not used it before. I chucked it in without rehydrating and then luckily saw this on their website: ‘Our research suggests that pitching LalBrew BRY-97TM directly into wort without prior rehydration will often result in better performance including shorter...

Come all you lads of high renown that like to drink strong ale that’s brown…

I had a batch in winter that didn’t carbonate. My trick to get them going was line a cardboard box with an electric blanket, swirl all the bottles to wake the yeast up and put them in the box. Put the blanket on low every now and then… did the trick. All irrelevant tho if it’s a lack of priming...

End up making this? How did she turn out?

Hahaha savage

She’s a healthy 8.4%

That’s all good, I heard Bundy kills it anyway

Nah not as my first beer being judged. Honestly a bit of a dud

Will pay close attention. Got an APA not far off bottling, a British strong ale not far off bottling and an AIPA scheduled for a brew day in a week… Gonna be a bit late to the party as I need to wait for them to condition. Only thing I’ve got atm is a sparkling ale which needs a lot of...

I found out I didn’t have my immersion chiller with me when brewing a pacific ale once and worried about this… I read it should be ok if it was under boiling and transferred into a classic HDPE bucket fermenter at 98C. Sadly I was burping up a weird plastic taste once I started drinking the beer...

Ah ok - I’d have been keen to embrace this. In Melbourne tho…

Where do you live man

Congratulations - that’s my dream

Went for Nottingham, thanks for your help Will post in a couple months with the results Cheers