will this optimal salt calculator take ph into consideration? it sounds just like the one on beer smith that calculates the salts to the required water profile and doesnt take ph into consideration, to be honest i like it how it is, besides people need to learn what salts do not just press a...

I love the yeast pitch and starter calculator on bf and would love to see a starter over build calculator added to it so we can over build by as many cells as we need for the next starter, maybe a little bit like this http://www.brewunited.com/yeast_calculator.php please delete if im not allowed...

How did this recipe taste in the end...

Re: March brew pumps in uk like everything we buy made diffi the chugger does look a quality pump im tempted to order the 115v and run it on my 110v site transformer or just get the cheap 12v untill there's a good alternative..

Re: March brew pumps in uk like everything we buy made diffi ahh thats eu certified not ue. lol pull me another beer.. another quick question is, if i set up a whirlpool for my new tun would a center drain work like the insulated mashtuns here...

Im looking to up grade my bits n bobs so i can mash 10 gallons, so i need pumps i thought,the idea being ill turn my 45ltr igloo cooler into a jockey box and buy a stainless insulated mashtun and have 2 pumps and 3 vessels, easy i thought. well all e bay adverts for ss pumps were all from us...

+1, id leave it if it was mine, make adjustments to your next brew record the results and brew it a few times till the results are constant and yer happy with the beer....

I think it would be fault with your bottles rather than the capper if some are ok and some leaked and have chips. i have a bench capper thats quite old now and never had problems although you can buy new bells for it so maybe they do wear out and get loose..

I recently bought a beer gun and i find it works best if the keg is left on the floor and bottles up on a table, turn gas down to bout 3psi and it works a treat with the 10 foot hose that was supplied with it, havent had a flat bottle yet, excess foam is usual the gas set too high turn it down...

Well i originaly made this recipe for 10 gallons so i could split and use 04 and nottingham in 2 seperate fv's to compair but decided to scale the recipe back to my usual 25 ltr batch, since using 04 in the first batch and trying almost ½ the keg, ive just brewed two more batches one using...

Thanks everyone for the input for this recipe, this brew is well ready to drink and we dont think it's going to last till christmas, i went with this recipe http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... dark-irish the results are stunning its the best brew ive done to-date, its turned out so much...

Thanks Larry ill do that , im intending to put this away for christmas once i keg it should i gas it straight away or should i be storing it for a while and carbonating later. after christmas il have temp control for my fermenters, untill then im at steady 15.4 c under my stairs

well morning after brewday there was a good bit of airlock activity, after 2 days it stopped, worried my temps were a bit low at 15.4 c ambient air temp so i took a sample today at 4 days and gravity was 1.014. sample tasted nice, roasty and creamy i ended up drinking the whole sample it has a...

Just out of curiosity, How long do you generaly leave in primary for the yeast to clean up before bottle/kegging

Had a crack at this recipe today http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... dark-irish everything went to plan apart from a degree or 2 low on the last 20min sparge. overall think it all went well, took me 5½- 6 hrs. i ended up with 21ltrs in fermentor rather than 23 but gravity is 1.050...

i always convert my recipes from gallons to litres, us gallons and quarts confuse me.

Ive been looking at my water supply to try make a dry stout (http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... dark-irish), playing with the water chemistry, my water starts like this.. gatehouse dawlish 19 3 8 22 7 49 (HCO3) if i add 14 g of chalk will give me enough hardness to nearly match...

unfortunatley my yeasts are always bought online, my local hbs has no wet yeast, the shop i order from have a section of short dated yeast that i never even look at so i didnt expect to get sent old dated vials for 6½ quid but ill definatly look a bit closer next time i order ..learning curve...

Im loving the bottles of spitfire from sainsburys for a quid and want to try make some to fill my last empty keg :D your thoughts on this recipe before i give this a go next week http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... entish-ale cheers lee

so glad you asked this question, i bought a 45 ltr igloo cooler tun and i have yet to fill it over ½ way, wondered if id overdone it after deciding to use the 29 ltr digital brewferm boiler as hlt and bought a 70 ltr gas ss boiler, just wanted to be able to mash & boil 10 /12 gallon batches ...