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Which ingredient has the greatest influence on a beer? :huh: Beer is basically water, malt, hops, yeast and possibly some adjuncts right. Looking through lots of recipes recently, it struck me how similar most of them are. There's a base malt or extract, chosen from a fairly limited...

Thanks to the brass monkey winter we're having I've got a couple of fermenters cranking out lagers and pilsners :D Problem is I only have space in the brew fridge to cold condition one at a time so a queue is forming. How soon after fermentation finishes do I have to cold condition? Can I...

So I brewed up a Muntons Smugglers Gold using S-04, one of the 3 Kg kits that's notorious for stalling. Anyway you guessed it, the damn thing stalled at 1021 :angry: I pitched another S-04 which kicked it back into life temporarily. Now it's been in the fermenter for a month and it's only...

Did my first extract brew in April, a Hefeweizen, and cannot believe how much better it is compared to my old K&K brews :D After all the great advice I've picked up on this site I really pushed the boat out - Weyermann extract, steeping grains, liquid yeast with a starter, careful temperature...

What are your favourite kits for brewing Lager, Pilsner or Bock? It is nearly cold enough to brew a Lager without temperature control underneath the house, in a few weeks it definitely will be cold enough. I brewed Bitter and Porter during the summer to see me through the winter so these warm...

Is there any way of fixing poorly crusted yeast once it's in the bottle? For my fourth ever brew I made a Brewcraft Premium Imported English Bitter 1.8kg kit with 1kg Brewcraft English Bitter Converter and the kit yeast packet (before I discovered this site and the joys of extracts, steeping...

I splashed out on some Weyermann malt extract to make a beer for a special occasion. I'm trying to put together a recipe in Beersmith but I can't figure it out from the info Weyermann provide :angry: They list the specific gravity of undiluted LME as min 1.350, max 1.400, unit OG. On a...

I'm sure this will sound like the stupidest newbie question ever, but here goes. Why do you boil malt extract? I only discovered there can be more to homebrewing than mixing a tin of goop with a bag of sugar a couple of weeks ago. Since then I've read every book in the public library on the...