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Hi there I have just bought 2 old 20ltr corny's, I noticed when I done a leak test that the gas in posts of both kegs leak co2 out the top when I have the ball lock off..............is this common and would the gas line stop this leaking if it remained connected and with preasure. Or do I have...

Hey guys, I used about 450g of corn syrup in a brown ale the other week, just checked the FG and it's at 1.020..........I take it the corn syrup is doing this, as I know it's fermented. Now I've had this high FG gravity before in a higher temp boil that I done in a AG beer, so is the corn syrup...

hey all, just wondered, when you make an irish cream, usually they say it will keep for 3 months, if you use real cream instead of the powdered stuff will it keep the same amount of time? It's all kept in the fridge.

Just bought some of Mac's hop rocker pilsner, thought this was a great drop anyone had a go at brewing it? Say's on the bottle that it has a portion of crystal with the standard lager malt, giving itself some room for serious hop addition's, NZ sauvin up front and in combination with NZ...

Hey all, well done an AG brown ale the other day and after 3 days no action with the trub s-04 that I used, so I took an grvity reading and it was still at 1.048..............I will have to pitch a muntons gold I have.....................is this yeast any good? I also have a brewmaster draught...

Hit there all. last week I roasted my own grains out of pilsner, i roasted what I consider to be vienna/light munich (200F for an hour) and went hard for chocolate but ended up only getting brown................I roasted at 400F for an hour, which I read should make chocolate grain, any ideas...

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I was wondering if I save the trub from a whitbeer that I have fermenting........ this beer contains bitter/orange peel and corriander, would it taint the taste of my next beer, an american ale?. thanks, Sid.

Hey all, I done a whitbeer 4 days ago, first attempt at BIAB whitbeer, got the white colour alright so was happy with that, but shit did it turn out bitter. I don't know enough about this style beer to say wheather I have done it wrong, but the bitterness did worry me, am I right in thinking...

Hey all, I'll be doing my 1st stout BIAB next week starting with 40ltr and ending with around 30ltr, 90 min mash 90 min boil.... mash out and cool. thought I'd get your advice on the grains in my recipee, 8 grains in total.....this might be too many, but I've got em here to use. was thinking...

Hey there all. Now I done my first BIAB 14 days ago, the OG on that was 1.048, I just took another gravity reading today expecting it to have reached it's FG and got a reading of 1.022, I'd have expected this to be in the 1.012-15 range by now. There is no activity coming from the fermenter...

Hey all, I 'm thinking of doing a lager/pilsner soon, Just want to make sure one packet of saflager S-23 will do the job at 12c-15c, or can I go lower...........and how long do you ferment these at those temps, I haven't done any real AG lagers before. thanx, Sid.

Hi all. well I'm onto my 1st AG in a couple of days...........using a modified 50ltr keg. I have worked out a quick recipee using beersmith and was wondering if it looks right. I used Single Infusion, Full Body, No Mash Out and have the boil volume set to 30.41 ltr for a finished batch of...

Hey all, I was wondering if 15 metres of 12.7mm diametre copper pipe would do for my wort cooler? Going into a 90 litre pot. thanks, Sid

Hey all, just wondering if it's worth modifying a coopers stout kit (a 1/2 batch..12litrs) with a 1/2 kg of frozen raspberries/choc malt/oats/hops. I don't know whether a stout would be good chioce for this since it would have strong flavours that might over power the raspberry.......should I...

Hey all I have a stout thats been in the fermenter for 5 days, I have tasted it (not bad) and thought I should have added some cinnamon/star anise when I done the boil. Can I boil these in a tea for 20min and add to the fermenter a couple of days before I bottle it and get a similar taste?....I...

Hi all. I was wondering how I can use some whole wheat I have bought for making a wit beer. How can I use this wheat?, I was thinking either I'll have to grind in my coffee grinder to break the grain, or can I use it whole?..... and then there is torrified wheat, could I turn the whole wheat...

Hi all I'm going to make a stout out of a cheap kit can that I got from the supermarket, just going to do a 1/2 batch with it (11ltr's), I probably use some cyrstal and chocolate grain... mini mashed and I want to do a seperate mash with oat flakes, but have no idea how much I can use for this...

Hi all. I was wondering how many of you here don't steralize your bottles for your home brew. I personaly clean my bottles out with bottle wash and brush and then stand a small amount of steralizer in each bottle and leave for an hour or two, then rinse out twice and there are ready to go...

Hey all I was wondering how much manuka wood chips to add to me modified kit beer,standard batch 23 ltr's, going to soak the woodchip in bourbon for 5 days then I'll either add to fermentor or rack the beer onto it, don't know which is the prefered method. I have about 50gm manuka chip soaking...