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Hey guys, I had to give up home brewing (well I had to quit alcohol completely TBH), so I am sadly having to end this hobby. I chucked all my kit up on Ebay if anyone is interested. My set up was for BIAB, so includes a crown urn, bags and all other basic fermenting and bottling stuff...

Well after a year of kits and extracts I did my first BIAB last weekend (an English Special Bitter). I bought the urn and bag from Craftbrewer (40L) and they worked beautifully. Just wanted to thank AHB people generally as I would never have attempted, let alone pulled off a BIAB without this...

I was watching a Youtube clip (Chop and Brew I think) and the guy they were filming (a US craft brewer) started gently stirring up his yeast on day three with a long spoon. He said yeast tend to get "lazy" and stirring them gets more contact with sugars to drop the FG and clean up off flavors...

So July is coming up and I was getting pressure to do it this year. Its for a good cause and all (assisting adults living with cancer) so I have agreed. :unsure: Whilst I'm REALLY going to miss my beers for a month, I'm hoping I will enjoy each one even more afterwards. Any other brave souls...

Hi guys, I have done a couple of brews and done a few good hours of reading books, magazines and this forum. I was thinking of starting to do more smaller batches (5L-11L) so I could experiment with different beer styles, hop additions and techniques. I was intending to use a lot of the recipes...

Hi Brewers, So I'm putting together my second brew attempt. I used the spreadsheet guide and the recipe looks like this: Irish Red Ale Coopers Draught 1.7kg LME Coopers Amber Malt 1.5kg DME Light Dry Malt 0.5kg Kit Yeast I'm wanting to keep things pretty simple until I have confidence in my...

G'day folks. Complete noob here. Just got my first kit brew in the fermenter and started looking around the place for info as the temp dropped to 13C and I paniced!! Found this place and have now wrapped the wort in an old woolen blanket and its up to 22C with some satisfying looking foam on...