Recent content by jaroporter

you don't say what the mash temp and final gravity were? as has been said above, there's no right or wrong way. but i would do it a little different. if you were happy with the beer and just wanted to raise the abv a little i'd just add some sugar. if you mean to make a stronger, more...

yup. the US brewers bbl is bout 120L, in the UK it's bout 160L.

the point is that these are marked food safe and often used for food transport. i still do agree with them not being ideal for everyday home use, or micro-commercial, but if they're easy to get hold of individually and an acceptable price then as a one off to process the harvest, or brew for a...

ahem..

20A is easily enough for double that batch size, but it will come down to how you design your system. insulation is obviously your friend, but especially boiling with a hood rather than a wide open pot (or even the lid part on). for context, i can get a hard boil on a maxxed out keggle with a...

don't worry, absolutely not is your keggle rim the problem here. no chance. :D just think of commercial kettles; think how many brewers use cut top keggles. i got a keggle with just a 100mm opening on it (can use half the leccy and hook up to a 4" vent pipe easily). if it's DMS then i agree...

hi guys, i learnt how to do this from this excellent thread and it's revolutionised my brewery! seems everything is now possible. been using the stayclean and staybrite8 to do this. just got one slight concern with some of my soldering that is on a fermenter. it looks like the solder on the...

keezer all day long. if you're mainly brewing standard ales then it's only the first 2-3 days that are vital to control temp. after that take it out the keezer and let it rise to finish off fully. you can serve your kegs on a picnictap in that time, first day it'll still be cold, frozen glasses...

don't get too hung up on the "styles", they seem to have been developed from just two commercial beers over here. we don't particularly have a specific brown ale style - it's just what individual breweries wanted to market a certain beer as. in contrast to above, it's seemed to be a lot to do...