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I have an AG Guinness clone fermenting and I’m starting to wonder what level of carbonation to do for bottle conditioning. A lot of the more Guinness-specific information is about carbonation with some nitrogen, so I thought I’d see if anyone could give advice regarding bottle conditioning it...

I didn’t mention used by. Not worried about safety, just worried it’ll be lower quality/stale. Seems somewhat dodgy to sell people LME past the best before without warning them. Just wondered if that’s a common occurrence and/or if that reduction in quality would be applicable in this case.

I just got an order of ingredients from a big Homebrew store, and my two cans of LME I got show a BBE date of 02/2023. Has anyone experienced being sold products past best before date before? Is this common practice with Homebrew shops? Is it worth going through the returns process, having to...

Fantastic - thanks for your help

That is a very good point - looking around at some northern English style recipes I came across one that has just maris otter, half a kilo medium crystal and some pale chocolate, so I might actually try something like. Fermenting relatively cold with some Notty might be the go.

Thanks for the advice - makes sense. I did have a question about the counterflow chiller there, because I'm a little lost when it comes to the connections. Connecting regular hose fittings to the water inputs makes enough sense to me, but connecting pipes for the wort leaves me a little lost...

Why drop the chocolate specifically? I'm looking to emphasise the bronw sugar/nutty/caramel taste without it being too thick/dark/cloying like your darker ales can be - still want to be able to see through it and have it be refreshing. I do worry if the amount of malts I've got there would make...

Yeah, they were recommending counterflow. My reluctance is just due to a bit more of a convoluted setup in terms of pipes plus hoses, and that the wort moves through the pipe, therefore more cleaning than just hosing it down like an immersion chiller, but it is something I should consider if...

Hi all, I'm looking to get an immersion chiller and this one seems like a decent price from Kegland BrewZilla 65L - Replacement Immersion / Ice Bucket Chiller (Stainless Steel) However, I was a little concerned about the fact they advertise it as a replacement for the BrewZilla and don't sell...

Hi all, About a decade or more ago I was in a pub and they had a brown ale on tap which from my best recollection was brewed by Howler, but it obviously is long since gone and no trace of it exists on their website or Google or anything. Is there a chance anyone here remembers that beer...

I did notice that Melrose stuff having a lighter colour. I think some people have mentioned the maltose rice malt you can buy from Asian grocers. What you're saying about corn/rice being a cheap adjunct does make sense, but I do want to try brewing an American light lager as true to the recipe...

Doesn't that have to be mashed?

Can anyone speak to the impact of the kind of rice malt you buy at Coles and how it impacts colour? Obviously if using it for an adjunct in a light lager you don't want it adding too much darker colour, but the syrup you buy at coles is darker than honey. I'm thinking about brewing the 'Typical...

Those would be a decent option, but they wouldn't fit the current airlock hole I have by the looks of it (so I couldn't switch between blow off tube or airlock), plus they might not fit the tubing I have which is thick silicon. I was thinking of something more like this where the tube slips over...

G'day, I had to setup an emergency blowoff tube due to some very active krausen yesterday, but now I'm looking into something a little more permanent. I currently have a hole and grommet suited for your standard S shaped and three piece airlocks and would rather not drill anything else. The...