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Good afternoon guys, So, a while ago I started playing with Kveik yeasts, mostly because hot sunny South Africa gets nice and warm and I was wondering if there's perhaps a nice yeast that can be used to ferment at room temperature. Anyway, that led to me using the first Kveik I could find -...

OK so I'm posting here as I guess it fits here. I make no-chill cubes that I sell to customers who then ferment it into beer at home. It's been going really well for over a year now, and I've never had issues in the ~7,500 liters I've sold to date. That changed recently. I don't know what or...

Hi guys, so I made my first kveik beer about 2 weeks ago. I wanted it nice and clean and ready for a party that's coming up on Friday and I decided to use the packet of Kveik Voss I had lying around. First off, the recipe: For a 21l batch: 3.2kg Pils malt 100g Munich T1 100g Munich T2 350g...

Hi guys, So I'm itching for another mead. I have a pretty good recipe and process using 71-1122 to make a semi-sweet mead that comes out really well in a short span of time. However, due to COVID and people buying up all the stock pretty much everywhere, I'm having trouble getting my hands on...

Hi guys, so I have an idea to make a really potent stout as we're entering summer here in South Africa now. I want to make it now so it can sit until winter comes again over here. What I'm looking for, in short, is the following: 1. 10% ABV, more or less. This is the number I'm hoping for...

Hi guys, So I've made a few batches of all grain wash recently and distilled it with my crude pressure cooker still. It works. I blended a bunch of these stuff together and stuck them on all kinds of oaks and toasts for a few weeks and 5 weeks later I had a spirit that's actually pretty damn...

Hi guys, I'm fairly new to AG (after coming from kits) and doing BIAB, and to be honest there's really just one thing that's really bothering me with this process - trub. I don't mind it in the kettle, I don't mind it in the mash, but man, it annoys the living daylights out of me when it gets...

Good morning ladies and gents, In an attempt to flog the dead horse myself, herewith another thread on this topic. I'm sorry, you must be sick of it by now, but I can't find the specific info I'm looking for by just searching. So, let me begin with a story... A few weeks ago I had a weird...

I posted this elsewhere as well, so here goes: So this weekend I started another mead. Fermenter can't be standing empty, so I got it running. I made a 25 liter batch, biggest batch of anything to date. My aim was originally a 10% ABV dry traditional I could stabilise and backsweeten to around...

Good morning ladies and gents, So yesterday I brewed my second ever all-grain beer. It's been a while since my low-ABV (that came out very "meh") since I became a father and all that, but I tried yesterday. Anyway, my recipe was pretty simple. I planned a 14l batch, using 2.3kg of grains. I...

Good morning everyone! So this weekend was a weekend just like any other, with some beers here and there (and a few very good Gilroys as well, but that's off topic), and again the topic came up of alcohol free beer. Now we all know it - beer brewed and boiled to drive off alcohol and all that...

Good morning ladies and gents! This weekend I started another extract brew (I'm doing extracts, by the way, still learning the ropes), being a Mangrove Jack's Dutch Lager tin paired with a bag of No 60 (German Lager) DME from Brewcraft/Copper Tun. OG was a bit lower than I expected and came in...

Good morning ladies and gents! Local South African guy here. Pretty new to brewing, and I'm brewing using the bare minimum right now but it's working out for me. Not a massive drinker and budget is a bit of an issue (isn't it always) so I like to brew quick, easy and most of all cheap...