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Evening All. I have notebooks recording my brews scattered about the house and as you can imagine I usually can't find the one I want. The two best options seem to be BeerSmith and Brewersfriend. Of them BrewersFriend seems better to me as I like the Water Calculator and usualy use CRS/AMS...

This is doing my head in! Please check my water adjustment procedure with respect to Alkalinity/Residual Alkalinity. 1. Get a profile for my water, it's usualy about 110 ppm as CaCo3 Alkalinity, also listed are Ca, Mg, CL, So4, Na and others. 2. Decide on the water profile I want to use eg...

I'm interested in building an automated system that will give me 12-15 litres into the FV. My bigest issue is the addition of hops, if I have to do it manually then there isn't enough reason to automate beyond a base level of PID temperature control. I have thought up a number of ways to add...

Before anybody get pedantic it's faux Lager a pale ale. Having got that out of the way, I want a clear beer and its at this point things get a bit more difficult. I will not be going into a keg :- 1, my keg freezer has broken 2, my cornies hate me, long story. So I'm going to bottle...

I have an early Manual GF and I'm considering using it for some small higher gravity batches, small enough that I could brew full volume/no sparge. The GF's efficiency is low with that sort of batch simply because there isn't enough sparge water to effectively flush the grain. The plan would...

The stout should be in the 10% Abv region, I'm not entirely sure of the value as it will be part of a gyle, if the OG is low I'll use some DME. The Voss sounds like a good choice but I have never used it. Please share your experiences with Voss and high ABV stouts. Many Thanks. Aamcle

I'm a brewer thinking of making some wine, a member here kindly recommend Lemon, however I'm puzzled by the amount of time wine fermentation seems to take. If I use an adequate quantity of healthy yeast I can cold ferment a lager in 14 days often less. Wine seems to take weeks even at 20°C and...

I would like to try again I've never had success with wine and I'm not entirely sure I have the patience I normally brew beer. Note. I'm in the UK some US ingredients are not available for example frozen juice is hard to find. The types of wine I like:- Fleurrie Good Merlot Chardonnay Not...

I came close to emulating the famous Brass Monkey when I bottled a batch yesterday, it was dam cold in the garage! The plan for this year is to brew frequently in Autumn (or earlier) and build up a stock to keep me supplied through the coldest months some beer choices are obvious, some less so...

I was reading the interesting "ferment and serve from keg" thread and I thought I'd seek comments/advice on my procedure. I ferment in a Brewmeister plastic FV on completion of the cold crash I give my keg a short blast of Co2 and run the wort via a tube into the keg through the beer out port...

Let's get past the second thing first :) I've seen a suggestion that Full Volume BIAB is less suited for bigger malt forward beers although this has not been my experiance, have any members here had an issue with this? Breweasy. There seems to be a lot of tubing and triclamps involved all of...

I'm looking at doing some smaller batches 12-13 litres (two crates of bottles) and I've been wondering about full volume mashing using my pre-Bluetooth GF. As smaller batches are more or less the same amount of work as a full batch I'm keen to save any time and effort I can. I brewed with a...

I'm thinking about a new build aiming for 12litres into packaging, it would be a BIAB mounted on a trolley. The trolley could be considered a table on wheels comprising of a table top and a shelf under it. To stop the pot sliding about the pot would drop through a hole in the table top...

I'm considering setting up a small full volume BIAB system using a 25litre Stock Pot with recirculation I'm comfortable with BIAB as I had a bigger BIAB some years ago. I'd really really like to avoid cutting holes in the pot I can do it I have the cutters, but I don't want to, I'll use a...

The book was published in 2015 I think and there is a podcast I found the other day. Has anybody here tried the recipes, were they good is it worth bothering with? How good is the beer? Atb. Aamcle

In 2022 I hope to do a new build I'd really like to use a high flow peristaltic pump but they don't seem to be economically viable, they are very expensive. I like the idea because they are sanitary and self priming I could hook the pumps inlet tube over the side of the kettle rather that fit an...

I'm considering a build and the neatest option requires a controllable valve that take one input tube but allows the selection of 3 outputs. It needs to withstand boiling water and be sanitary/easy to clean. I can design such a valve but I have no facility to machine one so I need to buy...

Good Morning All. If you have a gravity system do to drain the Boil Kettle in to the FV under gravity? Do you use a filter of any sort at the outlet to stop bits of hops or other crud getting into the FV? How do you stop the filter blocking and cutting off the flow into the FV? Thanks Aamcle.

Evening All. I have a few CBPi questions and I'm getting no answers on the FB group so I hope a member here will help me. I installed CBPi on a Pi3B+ and had a look at the screens but never used it so beyond installation I never configured it. It was put in a cupboard when a GrainFather...

Following on from my thread about automating a tiny brewery I wondering about having a cooling coil in the kettle throughout the boil. As the kettle is small both it and any fitted coil would go straight into the dishwasher for cleaning. Do any members boil with the cooling coil in place? Are...