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Did you use all malt or a mix of malt and sugar? Often all malt beers will attenuate higher but not at that level. It's unlikely fermentation is unfinished if it went like mad initially. If you're using the hydrometer in the tube, you might be getting sediment from, and around the tap, in...

Thanks guys for all your advice. Have showed the dude and he understands. As we live in Mackay, which is a huge sugar producing area, he grabbed about 15 kilograms of raw sugar for home brew (he's not made one batch of home brew in his life but liked mine). I've never used raw sugar but have...

I love a good stout, but it's got to be bitter and full-bodied. The last stout I made was Coopers brewmaster Irish stout. I do double brews so used to tins of Irish Stout. Instead of using light malt and dextrose, I used two 1.5kg tins of dark malt. I boiled the malt with 25 grams of fuggles...

My flatmate has kilograms of raw sugar. It's not the white household sugar but raw unrefined sugar. Has anyone used raw sugar in a brew? I keep telling him not to - to use malt or other but he's determined. Any advice?