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I have a stainless steel mesh hop filter with a screw on lid. They're pretty neat, easy to clean and sanitise etc. Plus once I get round to kegging I hear they are good for hopping directly in the keg.

It won't let me look at that as I am in the UK. Is this the stuff: https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/X2-Betadine-Povidone-Iodine-First-Aid-Solution-Antiseptic-Cuts-Wounds-15-CC-Each/1128274843?iid=273023881457&thm=10 Thanks again for the help

Ah right, I've seen this on some YouTube videos and have been meaning to get a bottle. What kind of iodine do I buy? I've seen Lugols Iodine solution at different percentages, and also iodine tincture. Which is the right one? Thanks for the help

Weirdly I was reading an article on Brulosophy earlier about the short and shoddy brews they have been doing. Looks pretty interesting. Quick methods for making passable brews in a short amount of time. Definitely worth a try I think.

This was from a couple of days ago, I brewed this already, didn't have time for a mash and after I plugged my other ingredients into beersmith it was coming out at ~7% so I left the Pilsner malt out for now. I have a kilo of Pilsen malt, was thinking of doing a partial mash "alesner" with that...

I brewed this yesterday, didn't have the time for a mash so just steeped the grains for 30 mins - caramel, choc, carapils and the 2 bags of kit grains I had. Took 2 hours start to finish including clean up and smelled great. Threw a couple of cups of freshly brewed coffee in (I like coffee...

See you in 6-8 weeks

I've got a load of leftovers from kits and other brews etc, I was thinking I could do a quick kitchen sink style extract brew tomorrow morning. Here's (some of) my inventory: One can of woodfordes Admiral's reserve (1/2 of a 2 can kit) Steeping grains for a 1 gallon stout and a 1 gallon porter...

Had a little sniff of the airlock and it smells mostly of rubber bung. Might transfer this to another demijohn later but feel it might be ruined. The bungs were from Wilko I think and smell very rubbery. Think I should've transferred it right away. Lesson learnt.

I accidentally pushed a rubber bung into my wine (the bung is only just big enough, but fits). It's the old orange/pink colour rubber. and they smell very "rubbery" I was swapping the tube for an airlock and pushed it in too hard, it was sanitised and just slipped in. I only started it 3 days...

Thanks for that but I never said it was a Hefe, I was actually going for a Belgian Witbier style, which this yeast can do. It's not exacly in that style and I won't be entering it into any competitions, but it contains wheat so I'm calling it a wheat beer. One of the things I love about homebrew...

Ah well, can't do anything until tomorrow anyway now. Bit of a catch 22/Schrodinger's cat at times isn't it. Had to open it to get a hydrometer reading...

I did a wheat beer on Wednesday (around 5 days ago) in a small 12L fermentation bucket. It's extract with a mini mash and I'm using Lallemand Abbaye and fermenting at 16-17C. It started fermentation within 12hrs and was pretty steady for a few days. Yesterday when I looked at it and it was...

I have a good set of 0.01g accurate scales from homebrew vape liquid making. Some good ideas on here.

Wow that looks really cool. Wonder if they have anything similar in the U S of K