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Hi all Im curious to see if anyone had ever used this enzyme in primary, or while dry hopping. I have a friend studying enology and he claims his teacher swears by it as a way to provide a more complex aromatic and flavour profile to wines by hydrolising glucosides from the grapes during...

Hi all Ive just done my first attempt at a new england. I added 250g of pellet hops at flameout. Needless to say it became like a soup, the hops never really percipitated and i regret not having used a muslin bag. That said its not even been dry hopped and it already stank!!! like simcoe and...

Hi all, A question i have had for a while brewing in my head. Is there a relation between wort ph and how well(or how much) falvonoids, terpenes, polyphenols and other aromatic compounds are extracted into the wort during the boil? Ive been away from homebrewing for a while and wanna make...

Hi all Ive bottled a high 40s og lager about 4 days ago. As i went to check on the bottles gave a couple a little shake and the bubbles formed by the bottleneck in consequence looked like those of a fully carbed beer. Is impatience playing tricks on my mind? I dont really wanna crack one til...

Imagine putting a long silicone tube in yout sparge water pot and when it is time to sparge suck water (or use a vacuum cleaner to avoi possible scalding) to create inertia and sparge slow without having an expensive pot with a hose connection? I dont think my plasic syphon can be used at high...

Hi all Imagine brewing an ale as normal and once fermentation is finished rack onto another vessel and into lagering temperatures it goes, for x period of time (id say a month). Is there a point in doing this?

Hi all My first lager been at 12 to 13 c for just over 3 weeks and its diacytil resting before i rack to secondary and lager for a month, its smelling like rhino farts through the airlock defo needs a good lagering. Airlok activity stopped a good time ago, is it necessary when going into the...

Hi all Ive brewed a few beers now and im extremely impressed with the results!!! Im just using an old 40 liter pot and makeshift cooler mash tun and a self made cooling copper coil. Kinda recirculating with jugs and sparging with jugs as slowly as i can. Now would it improve the...

Hi all Yes my very first batch of beer has been successfully pitched yesterday and its now bubbling away. Goddamn i had no idea hops smelled so good. Almost as good as cannabis, definetly pungent! Im confused about conditioning. First what temperatures should counditioning be done at? Ive...

Hi all Im no beer connoisseur, to be perfectly honest until about 1 week ago i just had a faint idea of how beer is made. I do like beer and id love to be able to make my own and for gifts and such. Ive researched a fair bit and what attracts me the most is everyone can makshift their own...