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Hey guys, small batch biab brewer here. Just started to use Brewfather, the UI/UX is great compared to beer Smith. Just a quick question regarding water amount my aim is to have 5.5 litres in kettle after boil. I brew a little bit extra to account for losses like trub. With my boil off rate of...

Just spotted this on my usual home brew store. Never seen anything like this on the market, looks like a professionally built son of fermentation chamber, with no ice etc.... Iv been looking for a ferm chamber for a while now. I’m not into the whole changing frozen bottles of ice and I Don’t...

Hey guys. First year hop grower. Got some tettnang growing in the garden. Got these plants sent from Germany when they were really small and transplanted into the ground. Some of the leaves at the bottom of the plants have gone a bit yellow and dead looking just down at the bottom of the plant...

Hey guys, just a bit worried somethings up with my yeast. I just brewed a SMASH finished at 1060. Popped some mangrove jacks M44 west coast yeast in. First time i have ever used this yeast. Came back to check on fermenter about 3 hours after pitching and it looks quite strange. Never seen a beer...

Building a fermenatation chamber at the moment, Im considering getting the Inkbird itc-308 but theres one thing I read online which I dont like the sound of… “When your temps get out of range the unit just sounds an alarm and shuts off. You have to adjust the temp parameters again in order to...

Hey guys just looking for a little feedback on my beersmith setup. I basically want to brew around 1 gallon or more of beer for bottling, im not accounting for trub loss or fermentation loss because I don't know what them losses are and I also read a lot of comments from people saying set them...

Hey guys another worried homebrewer, I got a second hand corney that had a small about of liquid in the end of it, only a couple of tea spoons, looked and kinda smelled like soda, but not 100% sure, anways I rinse the keg multiple times and soaked and shook a lot of star san around the keg on 2...

Hey guys Im a homebrewer looking to get a job in the real world, just finished college were I studied web and graphic design. Im building a portfolio at the minute and I am always on this forum reading threads and always have homebrew on the mind, so I taught it would be a good idea to maybe...

Just about a week done fermenting coopers traditional lager kit. Fermented at bout 22c and is now at about 20c since fermentation has slowed down. Was thinking of lowering the temperture to around 18c I know it was a bit high at 22c but the coopers yeast is a blend of ale and lager yeast. If I...

Tried search and Google this but couldn't find anything, only new to kegging just got my gas and kegs, the regulator gauge that reads the amount of co2 in the gas tank isn't at zero, it's at like 50 bar or something even though I have the gas turned off, should the needle go to zero once I turn...

Hey guys, got this new regulator and there's no psi on it just "bar measurement" what would like 8 or 12psi be in bar, any help much appreciated first time kegger here

Hi guys looking for some help here. I left my 30 litre fermenter soaking in some VWP cleaner for a day or so and then rinsed it out a couple of times and went to make my second homebrew and the bucket had a really strong chlorine like smell in it especially the rubber seal on the lid that the...

Hey guys just about to bottle my first beer, it's a coopers mexican cerveza brewed with be1 and kit yeast. It's fermenting around 21 for 12 days and dropped to 18 for the last few, I taught my beer would will be well ready to bottle by now but the hydrometer isn't in the yellow meter. Iv got...

Hey guys hope someone can help me with this one, So been doing some research into bottling and kegging and haven't decided what im gonna do for my first brew. Im kinda confused cause from what I understand if I carb my beer in a keg at room temperature using a co2 tank at a high PSI then serve...

Hey guys first post here, about to make the leap into homebrewing, been reading some books, the forums and watched a lot of youtibe vids. Looking forward to my first brew day and have got all the equipment to get brewing being delivered. I'm looking to keg instead of bottling and here's where...