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Hi all, I made an AG pils on Sat and had an older pack of Wyeast yeast. I put the wort into a fermenter first thing Sunday morning as I normally do and air locked it but the yeast still hadn't swelled the pack. The wyeast pack swelled today and I went to aerate the wort but it smelled...

Hi all An ag brew I put down about 6 weeks ago was a dark lager based on the Ayinger Altbarish Dunkel recipe in Wheeler and Protz book "Brew classic European Beers at home". It spent 9 days in primary, seven in secondary and after filling a corny keg, I had enough left over to fill...

Hi, I was just wondering what the consensus was on carbonating beer whilst it is conditoning in kegs? Obviously some beers ie wheat beers are generally preferred fresh and carbonating straight away wouldn't be an issue. However, being primarily a Lager/ Pilsner man, would carbonating the beer...

Hi, After putting down 2 partials, I put down my first full mash yesterday, which was a Wheat beer. Ingredients as follows: 2.5kg Pale malt 2.5kg Wheat malt 15g Perle Hops 60mins...

Hi all, I am looking at putting down my first partial this weekend. I am planning on doing a Pilsner. Ingredients are as follows; Morgans Blue Mountain Lager 1.7kg Pilsner Malt 2kg Munich Malt 500g Saf W-34/70 dried yeast. At the moment I have 40g of Czech Saaz...

Hi all I currently have a Pilsner lagering away at 2 deg C, which has been at that temp for about 1 1/2 weeks. Will it affect the beer if I carbonate it at 8psi whilst lagering and is there any specific amount of time to get best results from lagering. I don't plan on drinking this beer...

I am new to kegging and are having trouble keeping my beer carbonated. I have tried several methods as described on these forums. Basically, my beer loses its carbonation after one beer? The first beer is perfect, nice head and enough bubbles but after 2 or 3 there is basically no bubbles in...

Hi all, I got my first home brew kit for Xmas and am currently brewing my second beer. The problem I am having is I can't get it to ferment down to a og reading specified of about 1.008. I am using a Muntons Bock Beer kit, Muntons Amber Malt, Hallertau hops and 11.5g of S23...