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Im starting to bottle in 330ml and when i do a bigger batch it takes so long to fill them all individually. Does anyone know where i could find a second hand bottle filler for 330ml or even some options? cheers Hammo

Instead of dry hopping with my standard im thinking of adding a good serving of fresh honey into one of my fermenters. its a low ibu all grain beer and yeast is US05. im thinking of adding it once the gravity has dropped to 1.010 when i usually dry hop my others Any thoughts or suggestions...

Ive just recently upped my volume with my all grain ales and on 330ml bottles use the coopers sugar drops for bottle conditioning. Since ive upped the volume gradually im noticing more and more beers toffee over so to speak or like someone has shaken the beer when i open them. The flavor is...

Thinking of trying to put down a beer like Asahi? does anyone have any tips or clone? cheers Hammo

my mate owns a pub and asked for new years eve party to put some of my home brew on tap for our friends in the function room. ive always bottled my beer but was wondering whats needed in order to put my home brew out of fermentors and into a sanke keg and force carbonate? is it possible to this...

ok so bear with me here but the way ive been working out my alcohol percentage is taking my reading of pre boil and OG with a calibrated refractometer. usually the reading on the same recipe is around 1.045 to 1.046 for my OG'S. all my final readings are at 1.010 with the chart ive got with...

When i sparge the strike temp is 76 as it hits the grains. i usually then circulate till it runs clear then take the run off. As i was circulating i saw that the temp had dropped down to around 70 and then slowly kept decreasing on from there. Is this ok or should i be aiming to have it sitting...

with my newer big vessel ive been seeing how much i can actually brew out of my 200l barrels. Ive stepped up brew by brew of the original 23l batch all the way up to 6 times the original recipe. it was all perfecto until I x everything by 6. It seems that the beer is alot more bitter that when i...

going to run a few experiments tomorrow re carbonation levels in 330ml bottles. does anyone know how many grams of sugar re 330ml bottles is the standard? cheers hammo

how long after putting hot wort on the refractometer should you wait till you take your reading? i notice the longer on there the more it goes up. is there a set time that you do? cheers

looking for some suggestions for the next brew. going to do a ale of some sort. atm ive got a ale down based on POR bitter and amerillo flavor and aroma with some dry hopping. got my grain ordered but have not decided on what hops to go for. looking for something around the 20 to 25 ibu mark...

I was wondering if anyone knew how small micro breweries ascertain the correct fills in their bottles? do they use calibrated glassware to measure to get it spot on? also do they weigh the finished product? cheers

still trying to understand it totally but when your brewing and take your pre boil gravity lets say i pull more % out of my efficiency i then have to adjust my hops to suit. If i get more points pre boil what do i adjust to balance the recipe out to reproduce the same recipe but with less...

POR or horizon for bittering? whats your favorite biter hops?

ran a trial and put some long necks away in the fridge ( 3 deg) for about 10 days thinking it would improve the flavor and today tried one out of the fridge to another one from the same batch at room temp in the shed. (10 deg) funny thing is i was expecting the cold conditioned one to come up...

love this highly hopped beer. also been hooking into moylans range when i pick up my grain from G and G. any one got a cracker highly hopped ale they rate? or clone? might brew one for myself!!

Tried it the other day for the first time and loved it. any clones or suggestions for hop additions? cheers

just did a single hop ale with northern brewer to about 25 ibu's last weekend. mainly JW 2 row with a touch of cara for grain. never actually tried northern brewer hops so interested to see how it comes up. any beers on the market that use northern brewer or something similar it might come up...

ATM i ferment my ales at between 16 to 17 deg with us05. then after two weeks i bottle and leave sit in about 10 to 14 deg for 4 weeks for carbonation in bottle. would it improve if i cold conditioned at about two degrees for a week? what is your process for ales? cheers

ATM brewing a ale but with lager yeast and low ibu beer with mainly amerillo hops. trying to be patient as possible and let them bottle condition for at least 4 weeks so thinking of brewing something else inbetween. want something different to the style ive got but something everyone will like...