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• Oatmeal stout with cascade hops?
• Joke of the day.
• Disappointing efficiency
• What did you brew today?
• Is my Tilt playing up
• Show us your dog
• Euro 2020, who's watching?
• On the longest day today.
• Angram beer pull advice
• will my elderflower wine be sparkling?
• If you had £600 or so saved up
• Accidental lager?!
• Is Fermentation Complete
• What does volumes of co2 2.4 mean?
• How do you attach the grainfather chiller to the tap?
• Covid the jab and the final stage.

Oatmeal stout with cascade hops? Posted: 21 Jun 2021 06:20 PM PDT Couldn't decide what I was going to brew when in the home brew shop and ended up with roasted barley, chocolate malt and fuggles hops. With other ingredients I already have I've decided to either make a bitter. Wanting to use the choc malt and barley I was looking at the GH oatmeal stout....but don't have Challenger hops. Would I be mad to substitute Cascade instead? I also have fuggles and Goldings hops. I have MO and crystal malt. Any ideas welcome.

Joke of the day. Posted: 21 Jun 2021 05:35 PM PDT A joke to take the minds off the worriers and whittlers, who think we are all going to be wiped out with plagues pestilence and the off chance of a collision with a asteroid. In a small village in Russia the village milking cow dried up, the villagers were panicking wondering what to do. A village elder suggested they go and see the wise man of the woods, so they traipsed up to where the wise man of the woods lived. They explained the problem they had with the cow and he told them they... Joke of the day.

Disappointing efficiency Posted: 21 Jun 2021 05:21 PM PDT I keep a spreadsheet of my brews, and lately I have been disappointed to find that the general trend has been to BHE getting worse, not better. This, despite the fact that I believe I am much more careful and accurate about my work now than previously. So why is this? I considered various possibilities, including maybe the effect of some tannins from scorch marks on the base of the boiler inhibiting conversion? Well I had a good go at that, and I'm really not convinced that that is the... Disappointing efficiency

What did you brew today? Posted: 21 Jun 2021 05:04 PM PDT Some people may not want to write out a full brewday report but just say what they brewed. So what did you brew today? I made a 'bit's and bobs stout' to use up the odds and ends of grain I had

Is my Tilt playing up Posted: 21 Jun 2021 04:44 PM PDT My tilt seems to be fluctuating at the moment and I don't know why. Has anyone else seen this? I've twisted the fermenter a few times in case it's gunk on it, but seems to continue

Show us your dog Posted: 21 Jun 2021 03:49 PM PDT This is the common view I have most days of my dog Cooper. He's a 16 month old working cocker spaniel. Show us your dog!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Euro 2020, who's watching? Posted: 21 Jun 2021 03:42 PM PDT Just settled down to watch the opening match of the 2020 (2021) tournament. I'm not a huge football fan but I do like a good international comp. Ideal accompaniment to a good beer

On the longest day today. Posted: 21 Jun 2021 03:27 PM PDT This on Deansgate - It'll soon be Christmas. All credit to Pat Karney @patkarney

Angram beer pull advice Posted: 21 Jun 2021 03:24 PM PDT Hey guys! So I just bought an Angram hand pull for my brews. What is the easiest way (and hopefully the most cost effective) to get it up and running? Many thanks!!

will my elderflower wine be sparkling? Posted: 21 Jun 2021 03:20 PM PDT Thanks for letting me join. I made my first sparlking elderflower wine last year, it was too good to be true. This year I have done the same but unsure whether its sparking or not. Yes I added yeast and has been fizzing in my container. I have just filled some bottles but dont really notice any fizz at all. Can I retrospectivly add yest to make it fizz so to speak? The colour already looks amazing, just like last years but I have a feeling it doesnt have the fizz I need it to have. Thanks Paul

If you had £600 or so saved up Posted: 21 Jun 2021 02:45 PM PDT If you had £600 or so saved up, what fermenter system would you go for? Something shiny? A few different pressure fermenters? I currently ferment in a plastic bucket submerged a bucket with an aquarium heater method of temperature control. Love the idea of something like the Grainfather conical where I can set and that's that. But I know there are other options. I won't have any room for a glycol chiller though, so would need to do ice water, etc for chilling (though, I don't really do... If you had £600 or so saved up

Accidental lager?! Posted: 21 Jun 2021 02:20 PM PDT Hello I brewed Wilko's Feeling Hoppy £16 kit and have ended up with about 35 pints of commercial type lager. Not bad necessarily, but not what I was expecting, obviously. Any ideas? Could it have been packaged with the wrong yeast? Am thinking that I would maybe reduce the priming sugar amount and increase dry hops amount to about 100g ( they provide 10mg Amarillo pellets) if I did it again. Cheers

Is Fermentation Complete Posted: 21 Jun 2021 02:18 PM PDT i have been brewing a Dark Rock Brewing West Coast Pale ale and I am not sure if I am over thinking this as I am still very new to it all (this is my second brew), but the recipes talk about "when Fermentation is complete " after a week. So at 1 week I measured SG, I think I got about 1.010, I figured I'd leave it a day or 2 to see if it had really finished. Second reading of 1.008, third reading 2 days later 1.006. when I check my SG on water I get a reading of.998, so I know my... Is Fermentation Complete

What does volumes of co2 2.4 mean? Posted: 21 Jun 2021 02:05 PM PDT Hi, I've brewed a Bells two hearted ale and I'm ready to bottle. The recipe says volume of co2 2.4..how do i get the right amount? I don't want it to be too fizzy or too flat. I'm using dextrose and using 500ml bottles. Thanks in advance. Cheers.

How do you attach the grainfather chiller to the tap? Posted: 21 Jun 2021 01:48 PM PDT Got my grainfather last night, lovely and shiny and looks the business! On looking at my kitchen tap and the adapters that came with the GF I have one that fits the thread on my tap but… if I use that and ouch the blue hose on to the adapter I fear it will be tricky as surely the pipe will get all wound up and twisted each time I use it. Just wondered if this fear is unfounded or is there another way that's better to connect to a kitchen tap?

Covid the jab and the final stage. Posted: 21 Jun 2021 01:22 PM PDT SWMBO is a front line worker (carer) she has had the first jab and is now tested twice a week she also has the lateral flow test with the results showing 30 minutes after the test whenever she goes to work on the other days, there are no cases of Covid where she works and there hasn't been for quite a while. I am hoping as a front line worker my turn will come soon my age will also help, its not often i am glad i am an old fart.

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