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Thanks to previous posters for helpful replies. OK been brewing from kits. My last post was about low ABV beers and from the info recieved I have checked out some Session beers and in particular lager styles. So the plan ( and it is scary ) is to follow a recipie. If I bugger it up I...

I will be brief . Love beer but drinking too much ( not according to me never missed a days work etc ) but with kids lovely wife got to cut down . Actually its not so much too much but every day for 35 years and though I am more mellow now I have passed 50 I am also more worried about my...

Background. I have been brewing with kits. One day with a house, garden,shed etc I want to step up but kits are easier in a small flat. Brewing so far. A variety of kits and styles. Some brewed just for the hell of it. I have tried to improve each kit by using an appropriate dark or light spray...

put a new brew on Sunday, a london porter pouch kit 50% dark sme and 50% + a bit brewing sugar. I am normally a lager or IPA at a push kit brewer but a well known kit maker had a sale and I fancied something different so I got a few bitters and this porter. The instructions like most kits...

Is all this sterilising necessary? Many years ago my family made wine. Weeks before the barrels would be filled with water so the wood expanded and they were watertight and yes a few days before brew day I remember some sterilising solution. In went the grapes straight out of their boxes...

I am a new brewer and read up on this. Glass: Easy to clean, lasts forever, heavy, no possibility of plastic tainting your brew. Plastic: Light, easier to store, degrades, could get scratched and harbour bacteria. I got a deal on a 23lt glass carboy which is full of betterbrew export...