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Wow, what a surprise to find a hand pump at the little bar in town called Penny Blue. However it was the Real Ale they had on it which properly surprised me. Two Metre Tall is the small Tassie farm-based brewer and the drop was called Cleansing Ale. I could have been back in a heratige listed...

I recently made a German style lager and bulk primed for bottling. I for my ales I usually prime with around 80-90g of dextrose based on around 21 litres, this time I primed with 120g so I could get a little more CO2 life into my lager, by my calculations that's about 2.6 volumes of CO2 which is...

I've got a Mash Master FridgeMate to regulate my fermentation temps, it's bloody brilliant, however I have one gripe with it and wondered if any of you can help? You see the FridgeMate can be set to power on to drop and maintain a temp (ie power on the fridge) or it can be set to power on and...

Aside from the recipe database here on AHB I was looking for other sites which have the same concept, recipes in various categories with user voted rankings. Know of any?

Hi there, I'm making a Gluten Free Pale Ale beer from a Brewers Choice kit. To make it free from Gluten a liquid Sorghum syrup is used but there is a large amount of sediment created from this. To help clear it up a finings sachel is included. I'm racking to a secondary to reduce sediment and...

As the title suggests I was steeping a relatively small amount of grains for 30 mins when I noticed part way through that it had been boiling. Not very violently but still a boil, not very long either perhaps 5 mins, 10 mins max. Now I know it's BAD to let the steeping grains boil but being my...

I'm looking to make from an extract a Christmas Beer which I can give to family. After doing some searching I think I have two directions to go in. First is a spiced approach, I guess akin to mulled wine flavours with the addition of Cloves, Ginger, Cinnamon, Orange Peel, Vanilla and Honey. The...

From what I can understand lagering is a process where by you drop the temp for a period of time. Why should I do this and what effect does it have? I've got a Stella style kit ready to rack to my secondary in a temp controled fridgemate. Should I rack to the secondary and set a lagering temp...

My dilema is that I'm now on my 5th brew now and I've always had issues getting the final gravity reading to be nice and low. I've always bottled at what is probably considered a little too high (1018 to 1012) . No bottle bombs yet though! Here are the details of my latest brew, can someone tell...

I have a low temp slow fermenting Asahi style brew on the go. Because it's taking it's sweet time to ferment I racked it off the primary fermentors yeast cake to my scondary where I am giving it 2 more weeks. This is the first time I've racked. The pri fermentor had 21lt in it, the sec now has...

I have a spare dishwasher which I was thinking about converting into a bottle washer. I was thinking of removing the lower rotating spray arm and replacing it with a network of those garden stem spray things. Bottle goes on upside down and the clean the inside. I suspect that the hot water which...

I'm still a brewing noob, I'm onto my 4th batch now and I'm only comming to understand various techniques and the subtle influences upon the process. "Brewing is simple" they say, compared to what, drinking it? I'd have to disagree, I've found it takes an understanding of several more aspects...

Moments ago I pitched my yeast for the Brewcraft Asahi kit at 25 degrees. Optimum temp for fermenting is 10 degrees correct? I've got my fridge mate set up to keep 10 degrees but I'm wondering if I should be whacking the fermentor in the fridge now which will work on getting the temp down to 10...

I've got the Muttons Premium Smuglers Ale in the fermentor, pitched at 24 degrees and put it inside a powered off fridge. I've maintained around 18 dgrees (sometimes a little higher, sometimes a little lower) as the constant temp. Day two I could hear the airlock going and it's now been 12 days...

I've got an ale kit (Muttons Smuglers ale) which I've been festidiously keeping between 18-20 degrees in the fermentor with a heat pad. It's almost time to bottle and I'm wondering if I have to worry about the celler temp while I've got it stored away to age. My celler (read: tin garage in...

My previous 2 attempts at brewing have been dire, this is my 3rd attempt and I'm just wasting money. Can someone please help? I've got the Bewcraft British Bulldog Ale kit, it contains two can's of the gooey stuff and Safale S-04 yeast, no dextrose so I figure it's mixed into one of the two...