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I love my beer. Which is what led me to home brew. But there is so many types of Beers as in name wise. I usually drink VB and i thought as far as beers go there are light beers, Bitter beers, Lager beers, etc now ive learnt more i am so wrong. What defines what the beer is called? What the hell...

Hi, Just started my second brew yesterday with a few differences to the first brew so i can taste the differences. Using Dextrose instead of LME etc. When mixing all the ingredients in the primary i acidently missed out 1 litre of water. Is this a big deal i realised after putting the lid and...

hey i got me some dried wheat malt extract and im using it to bulk prime my brew today before i bottle. If i were using sugar id be using 180grams. But when replacing it with DME how much do i use?

Hi, This is like the stupidest topic you will ever see. OR IS IT? Anyways im obviously into making beer amoungst other things. I do lots of chemical extractions and shit. Which has got me thinking maybe i can combine my knowledge of chemicals and extraction procedures. Im thinking i can make the...

Hi guys, My first brew seems to be going well and looks and smells nice (maybe jus a lil hopsy for me but im learnin) anyways point of this is my bag of Cl-80 hops broke and ended up in the primary. I racked to my secondary obviously getting rid of most of the crap. And been told to maybe clean...

Hi all, I have started my first brew and its at about stage two of fermenting and all went well alls happening as it should. My only problem the hole way through way that i boiled my hops in 5litres of water with my 1kg LME before adding it to me primary once at a suitable temperature. Anyways...

Hey guys i practised how the hole brew would go last night the most important to me was the siphone as my hose doesnt fit the tap very snug and it loocked dodgy to me. Anyways i tried it the tap way and it leaked to much and dont want to leak beer not only that because its not airtight beer...

Hey, I got my two kits all ready to go one for racking just got to buy my plastic hose for siphoning. So i will begin sterilizing on saturday ints tuesday today by the way. Start the brew Sunday. Racking around the following Friday. Then lit it sit for ten days ish until at 1010 then Bulk prime...

Hi beer kings, Thanks to your awesome help i should be starting soon just going to the shops today to get final ingredients. Nut Before i go i got to know if i should rack or not? If so im gunna buy a second Kit so i got two of everything. I bought a beer book and its very good and it doesnt...

Hi i bought a wander hmoe brew kit and all the pieces wher missing from the kit exept a few so i had to buy the rest. I bought a lil bottler so when bottling i reduce splashes in the bottle. i cant get the **** to go on my tap is it becuase maybe the tap and the bottler arnt matching im not too...

Hey guys i been buying my homebrew shit and am about to get ready to do first brew i dont have the empty bottles saved up yet whic is a piss off. And im yet to pick my Wort or whatever you call it the Stuff in the 1.8kg can. I VERY NEW AT THIS. I dont my first to be too shit so im studying first...

Hi this will probablly sound stupid but i have just got myself a home brew kit and im getting prepared to begin. My only problem is i havent got the empty bottles yet and would rather not buy them but will if need be. My question is as i understand the final stages of the process require...