shmick

Have a look on David Heath's Youtube channel. He uploads his recipes to the Brewfather library. There's couple of Australian recipes on...

It's been done, can work reasonably well within certain constraints. If you take the alcohol over about 8% and certainly over 10% you...

Pretty pointless There is probably a small piece of grit in the needle or seat, or some other damage to the seat. If you Google up a...

A fool of myself. Hahahahaha.

Well, I'm about to find out Shmick, and I've already replaced them anyway. I bought a 60 litre FV, which I'd always baulked at because...

Sometimes micro-scratches in HDPE will harbour bacteria that no amount of sanitising (not sterilising) will remove. Short of boiling the...

No need to do what you do. I mostly don't use the lid on mine, just cover the top with a couple of layers of clingwrap, and seal it with...

Haven't used one for years Lots of brewer use a layer or two of clingwrap secured with the rubber band from inside the lid. Or, I simply...

Was sort of in a similar situation but still read up on the odd news now and then. Definitely lots more cheap equipment than in the...

Scott Bradlee does some awesome things (and some almost so) but the list of talented people is amazing on PMJ. Real rabbit hole.

And never will be if you mean LA-01. Beer made with this yeast has a lot of unfermented sugars so refermentatiom is highly possible so...

David Heath has a video about some of these yeast/enzyme blends but there's not a lot of real world experience showing up yet. Seems to...

I have absolutely no idea why Great Northern has become so popular, but at my current and previous golf club it is the most popular...

Hilux, Camry, MG

You can make water chemistry as simple or complex as you like! What you really need to as a learning brewer is make sure you have...