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Hi all, I finally got around to buying a dedicated 50L pot for homebrewing, after using a improvised stock pot for the last few years. I brewed with it for the first time yesterday, but encountered a problem, I couldn't maintain a roiling boil without the lid on for the 25L or so in the pot. I...

Hi, Just finished fermenting my first attempt at making my own recipe, as a partial boil, but I have noticed something strange with my gravity readings. Beersmith gave me a predicted OG of 1.051, but I had it in the fermentor at 1.059. The finishing gravity predicted at 1.013, and actual at...

Hi all, Last year I made my first cider, and after hours slaving over a juicer, decided to go for a crusher and press this year. I have been using the setup today on some apples collected from roadsides about the place, and the yield seems..disappointing. The press is a ratchet style basket...