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I have a FP E450 fridge thats constantly beeping after a flash and a pop. It still seems to get cold but I suspect the fan has gone. Anyone familiar with repairing these products that might know if this could be an expensive repair? I've read on line the bulb inside the fridge could cause this...

Just thinking of getting a spare fridge repaired that has plenty of room for two 30L fermenters. I already have an inkbird temp controller with a candescent lamp as the heat source, which so far in my other smaller fridge works great. I'm trying to avoid running two fridges at the same time. I...

I'm looking at buying the above 15L urn just wondered if anyone else has bought one and what they thought of it...

Looking at setting up my shed for brewing. There is a water supply from a tap on the outside wall of the house that has a garden hose attached that is also in pvc pipe that goes under the shed slab to an existing toilet in the shed. I've read that garden hose may leach lead into the water, so...

At the start of a boil I took a reading after the wort had cooled to 20c in the hydrometer tube and it read 1040. I then performed the boil for 60 mins, boiled off approx 4liters then cooled the wort and at 20c took another reading it read 1038, any ideas as to why that would be?

Just thinking of dry hopping in the keg whilst adding some sugar simultaneously in order to naturally carbonate at room temperature for a week then cold crashing. I'm sure this will have been done by some of you already and was curious to know if there any effects to the beer in doing this...

I'm a partial BIAB brewer with limited experience and wanted to know the best way to estimate OG for a recipe. I use Beersmith to create and verify recipes and have noticed that speciality malts are contributing to the estimated OG. My understanding is that speciality malts don't have much in...

I brewed this partial BIAB 16 days ago: 1.59 kg Pale Ale, Golden Promise®™ (Simpsons) (5.0 EBC) Grain 1 40.7 % 1.04 L 0.91 kg Barley, Flaked (3.3 EBC) Grain 2 23.3 % 0.59 L 0.46 kg Roasted Barley (Bairds) (1182.0 EBC) Grain 3 11.8 % 0.30 L 0.31 kg Chocolate Malt (689.5 EBC) Grain 4 7.9 %...

Been partial brewing BIAB ESB's for just over a year now and the recipe below is getting near to what I'm looking for but I would like to have a bit more sweetness in the flavour any suggestions of how to do this? 1.99 kg Pale Ale, Golden Promise®™ (Simpsons) (5.0 EBC) Grain 1 55.5 % 1.30 L...

In the middle of a brew as I type and the plastic hydrometer tube I use is now out of shape due to me pouring in hot wort ( I know, what a nob !) so now I can't take a reading and I will need to add water after the wort has cooled down in order to reach my target OG and make the volume up to...

Just kegged a ESB style ale and used 200g in a Biab 19l recipe and it's currently quite cloudy/hazy. It fermented at 22c using 1469, I don't normally have such a cloudy ESB using my normal process. It tastes fine but wondered if it was the wheat causing the cloudiness. BTW I cold crashed for...

Any recommendations for books for someone like myself who is not an absolute beginner but still has heaps to learn. I have a small BIAB +DME set up.

Just got myself a kegland stir plate and need to ask what's probably a couple of stupid questions but here goes. Is it ok to have the stir bar in the wort whilst boiling it? Once the starter is complete and ready for pitching, how do you get the stir bar out of the flask?

Just found this recipe on the interweb which apparently has a good nutty flavour and wondered if anyone could suggest what the "Special Roast" is as I can't find it at my local suppliers? 75% British Pale 7.5% Victory 5% Crystal 60 5% Crystal 30 5% Special Roast 2.5% Roasted Barley Hops: E.K...

I am partial mashing 3kg grain BIAB in a 19L pot and I add DME to the boil as required in order to meet my required OG as per Beersmith. I aim to brew 19L batches and use recipes in conjunction with Beersmith to achieve this. I mash in for 60 mins ( my temperature holds well and tends to be 66c...

I've just started to use yeast starters and see a lot of sometimes conflicting information out there on the interweb. So as I already have Beersmith I decided to use their calculator for creating a starter. So I'm interested in getting feedback as to whether people think this is a good...

I recently brewed a California Common and kegged it as normal. I started drinking it after a week in the keg and it tasted great, a nice caramel/toffee flavour up front with a hoppy mildly bitter finish, a really nice drop. Thing is a couple of days later and the malty /toffee flavour has...

I've brewed 4 partial grain recipes and so far they have turned out pretty good. However I haven't been pouring chilled wort into the fermenter through a sieve and wondered if this actually makes much difference to the taste/flavour of the finished product?

I have been brewing extract only beer and am looking to step up a notch to somewhere in between all extract and all grains. There seems to be a lot terminology that blurs BIAB, Partial and extract with grains process information. Can anyone tell me what the differences are? And what's the limit...

Anyone know if the Big W 20 litre pot is suitable for partial grain brews or even all grain brewing?