Good Luck with growing your own!! See this link on Hop breeding... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQP_VFo1 ... 2078173907

Does anyone have a table display the equivalent/alternatives from a liquid yeast to a dry yeast. For example for is the closest equivalent in dry yeast to WLP300?

Can you apply the Speise/gyle method successfully to prime a hard-cider batch?

In a batch of Belgian Golden Ale I made recently, I bottled again with 75cl flip top bottles. This time I made sure that the gasket and top were both sanitized and most importantly, dry. Out of the entire batch only one didn't prime well. And this bottle I left in the fridge for at least 2...

Its the whole shooting match in one! Chiller to boot! All incorporated. Approx USD 15K

Yes the plan would be to go commercial at some point in the future when I've completely trashed out the whole idea. And yes there are a lot of papers to sign and premises to be inspected by our delightful authorities but I'm thinking of going small scale first as I have little money but some...

Thanks for the timely response!! How do I find out the best way to fill and carbonate a Keg for commercial use?

When a brewery kegs its brew, does the beer go into the keg 'flat'/ unprimed so to speak? And the CO2 at the bar its destined for, primes the finished product? :?:

I brewed a fruit beer recently. Using a Maris Otter pale malt and a cara-malt only.The yeast I used was a Young's Cider yeast,( all I had at the time and I also wanted to see how it would pan out with a beer recipe) And at bottling time I added a strawberry extract to the mix.( 4oz/5gal). I...

Cheers Adomo! I bottled my StrawBeery Beer last week. :D

If I freeze my gyle primer until I need it to bottle my brew , is it still necessary to boil it first and then cool it before adding it to the bottling bucket or can I just defrost and go?

It's the malty tones from the kettle!

It's certainly worth trying. I love the stuff.

Had a great time today on the tour of Peticolas Microbrewery Dallas. They have an awesome imperial IPA called Velvet Hammer

Im going to Dallas TX for two weeks in May.Flying over from Ireland. I always fancied seeing how my brew would go done with people in the States. Does anyone know if there are any Home brew competitions around that I could enter into? I land May 12th. 8-)

Ive noticed an uninvited guest in my shed/brew house yesterday. Only for a split second and fear its a young rat as opposed to a wee mouse! Any clever ideas out there as to how to get rid? I did by mistake order a 25kG bag of Marris Otter at the start of the year for my brew projects and always...

Thanks for all the comment lads! I bought a dozen traditional ale bottles from my normal supplier. But yes the common sense approach is to hold on to your favourite empties and use these. I love the Belguim 33cl stubbies but the flip side is with such small volume there's bottles everywhere...

Anyone have any links to buying beer bottles ? Looking to have a style of bottle thats a little different. :ugeek:

So when they mention apparrent extract to calculate AEb and AEk this is the gravity reading right? And how do you convert to Plato?

When I prime my bottled beer by speise/gyle I set aside approx 1.5Litres to prime approx 18 litres. This ratio works perfect for me. But if I want to find out what this is in terms of Volumes of CO2 how do I do that? :oops: