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After viewing many threads I built a computer fan based stir plate. On my last visit to the LHBS I bought a stir bar and a 1 litre flask. (They have 2 litre flasks on back order) I harvested about 2 teaspoons of yeast slurry from a local micro brewed hefe. Pitched it into 500ml 1040 wort...

I was given a sachet of Mangrove Jacks dry yeast today along with a booklet covering their new range of yeast. While it seldom makes sense to harvest from a dry yeast brew I do from time to time forget to buy yeast and then that bottle of harvested notty is most useful. I am however...

I was listening to the latest BSHB podcast "For The Love of Hops" when I had what can only be described as a looney idea. Why not dry hop at bottling time. I have a scale with enough resolution to be able to weigh hop pellets with enough accuracy to try this. So before I grab the hops and...

I brewed something similar to this a while back and it turned out very drinkable with a lot of hop character. I've since had a hard drive crash and lost the recipe. The Hops are local hops that worked well last time, though I suspect that i used EKG as the aroma hop last time round...

I've founds no end of threads discussing the merits of various volumes of kettle. I found a place today that's selling short fat pots for sensible money. My concern is that almost all the photo's I've seen on here show pots/kettles that are normally taller than they are wide. Is there a...

Please help. I bought a generic kit of fruit wine materials last week. Reading up here looking for a mulberry wine recipe. I'm finding a number of inconsistancies between the kit instructions and most of the recipes I've found. Lets start with the pectolase and "steriliser" order. The kit...

I found out about BIAB last week and spent my evenings studying like a good student. Went out on Friday morning and collected 2 BIAB bags and some grains. Late Friday night I was messing with my 5 Gallon pot on the stove to see if the stove could bring 4.5 gallons to a rolling boil. Yes just...

I'm struggling a bit with the exact size of a gallon and I really want to nail it down exactly. The conversion site I've been using lists three different gallons. Is the US Liquid Gallon the one in common use for brewing? If so I've been brewing 6 gallon batches :cross:

First some back ground. I started my all extract brew 07/14/2012. It took about 24 hours to start bubbling. The bubbling has slowed down to sort of 5ish minutes between bubbles. The last four days hydrometer readings were all 1014 I've read numerous posts on here telling us to be...

I'm a total noob, my first extract only brew is in my brand new fermentor. Down here in South Africa it's winter and we're being plauged by a nasty cold snap. Spent a big portion of the day in front of the computer learning so much about brewing from this amazing board.:tank: Edit: I think I...