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Apologies if this has been covered before but the search only led me to malt your grain threads. This morning as I was milling my grain (Optic pale ale) for today's brew I noticed right at the end that a few of the grains had sprouted, i.e. germinate I guess. A quick look in the grain bag...

Waiting for my mash to finish so thought I might as well post this. The plan today is to brew two 1-gallon batches using the same grain bill; an imperial stout and a dry stout. The idea and recipes are from Mike Karnowski's book 'Homebrew beyond the basics'. I will brew the imperial stout...

So there I am chilling my wort in the kitchen sink, stirring away with the cold water flowing nicely out of the tap. It's been a smooth brew morning but I'm pushed for time. All under control though, I can chill for five more minutes, syphon over to fermenter, pitch the yeast and be on my way...

I won't have much time for BIAB brewing this summer so had planned to do four or five single hop extract batches using hops I haven't used before (Citra, Simcoe, Palisade, maybe a New Zealand hop). However, I tried a beer from a Swedish micro last week (East Coast Pale Ale by Sigtuna Brygghus in...

I have recently started using liquid yeast. I brew small batches (5 litres) so do not need to use a starter but do so that I can harvest yeast for future brews. I normally make a 1 litre starter and save half and pitch half. However, I suspect that this might be too much yeast for my small...

Decided to start using Brulosopher's method for harvesting and saving yeast and transferred my first harvest into a mason jar yesterday. This morning I was admiring my efforts in the form of an impressive layer of creamy yeasty goodness. I noticed what looked like an eyelash stuck to the jar and...

Hi all I have a question about my water. Since I switched to all grain back in November I have noticed that my beers have a round smooth taste even when I brew a hoppy beer. The FG is normally on target so I don't think they're finishing too sweet. I have also noticed that I barely get more...

Hi all, my name is Ratso and up until two weeks ago it had been 12 years since my last brew. Once an addict, always an addict I suppose. I decided to do a few small batches (7 litres, about 2G I think) using DME to get back into the swing of things. One thing I have learnt from this great...