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I love Kveik Voss. Where I live has really hot summers, so it's become my summer yeast, but I'll use it all year round. I guess it was bred with such extreme conditions that it can handle whatever we subject it to without much hassle - true viking yeast. I mainly use it for IPAs and pale ales...

Thanks for sharing that chart. It's very helpful. I have a spunding valve on my fermenter like this: My plan is to increase the pressure once the fermentation is finishing up then force the sediment out of the bottom.

I'm making a pale ale with Kveik Voss and someone suggested fermenting under pressure to make the beer clearer and provide carbonation, so this is my first time to give it a try. I pitched the yeast this evening at 9:30pm with my tank's cooler set to 20-24°c and the pressure valve set to 0.4...

I was looking into getting an aquarium pump for oxygenation, but I was worried that it would be too difficult to clean/sanitise. In the end, I just got a food-grade stainless-steel paint-mixer and use that to aerate wort from 20L to 120L batches.

I finished brewing my second batch of beer yesterday. The first batch was a simple pale ale for pickling and I had to pour it all away 😥But for the 2nd batch, I've made a brown ale. The pump that moves liquid around the kettle was a lot stronger than I realised. When it came time to empty the...

I used my electric grain mill for the first time yesterday and wasn't prepared for the amount of dust it produced. I just wrapped it in a big bin bag to contain it. I've been using a hand-crank grain mill up until now, which produces some dust, but no way near as much. It's definitely worth...

Thanks, I wasn't aware of passivating or pickling, so I'll definitely do that. I was just going to wash everything with PBW and then sanitise. This garage is owned by my in-laws. It was just being used for storing construction supplies before I got it and converted it. So rent's very low. I'm...

Thanks! I'm going to try brewing an American IPA with Voss kveik. I finally managed to unpack all the equipment so hopefully I can start brewing this weekend. I just need to sort out the electricity connection and figure out how it all works!

Foster's, a terrible beer, when I was about 15-16. I only experienced mass-market lagers like that at first (Stella, Carling, Carlsberg, etc.), so my opinion of beer wasn't very high. But then I went to Leuven in Belgium for a trip during uni and was able to try Stella in its hometown (much...

I've nearly finished the renovation. I tiled the walls and floor of the brew room. I just need to install an extractor fan and some other minor stuff. I got is a stand-alone 120L BIAB system - it has a big brewing kettle with a bucket for the grain that can be winched out. And then two 120L...

Thanks for the link. I did let it sit in the fermenter for 13 days, and it only took 2 days for it to reach FG. I had a small taste of the ale when I bottled it, which was at 24'c, and that was slightly more sour with some tropical fruit flavours. I hoped that the tropical fruit would stay and...

I tried it today and I also got a citrus flavour at first, but after a few sips I didn't notice it as much. I'm planning to use Voss Kveik with an IPA in my next brew. I'll reduce the fermentation temp and aim for 25-28'c and see whether that reduces the acidity.

I'm using Kveik Voss for the first time to make a blond ale. I bought a sachet towards the end of last summer but, just as I was about to use it, the weather suddenly got cold for autumn (we have crazy temperature swings where I live) so I decided to save it. The weather got really hot...

The second one looks great, but may be a bit above my level. The first one seems ideal though. Thanks for that, much appreciated.

Hi all, I'm going to convert a garage into a brewery and could use some advice. The garage is ground-level with doors at either end. It was previously being rented out to some people for storing construction materials, so I need to add new flooring (tiled) do something to the walls (I've been...

My mum gave me this one 12 years ago when I reached the UK's legal drinking age.

It's actually been in that spot the whole time. I thought it was only direct sunlight that caused issues, but I've moved it to a dark place now. Thanks for prompting me to look that up.

I didn't add the LME in the end and just added the fruit concentrate last night. Which turned out to be a fortunate decision because this morning the krausen was really thick and has pushed up to my fermenter bucket's lid overnight. If I'd added any more volume I'd probably have ended up with a...

I only found out about Kveik at the very end of summer. temps were still +30'c so I ordered a packet but then a few days before my brew day a cold front came in and dropped the temp to ~20'c, so I guess I'm gonna save it until next summer...

Hi all, any help would be appreciated on this one. I ordered a fruit beer kit online for the first time and, after brewing with the grain, the OG has come out a lot lower than I expected - as 1.027. However, the kit only came with half the grain I usually get with kits like this and a tub of...