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    Recipe Editor DP Calc Bug

    Today I noticed the DP (Diastatic Power) is not calculating properly. Hence giving a wrong result. If I add 4000g of "Unted Kingdon - Maris Otter Pale" the DP is 62, then is I add 500g of "United Kingdom - Brown" the DP changes to 55. All good, it worked as expected. However, if I choose...
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    Little Bug with Water Chemistry

    The selected target water profile always says "Bitter Custon" and not what I selected in the recipe editor! Example of Selected target water... Water chemistry editor result (I change this to Pale Ale in this case).
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    Add Custom Fermentables is broken!

    I'm getting the following... #1... When I enter a brand in the "Select or Enter a Brand" dialog, it doesn't save the brand I've entered (typed). i.e. When I come back to edit the recipe the "Select or Enter a Brand" dialog is blank. It may work if an existing brand is selected, but that is of...
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    I'm confused about kentucky Common!

    I try to broaden my beer making from time to time... Case in point "Kentucky Common", I've started to research with a view to maybe brewing some, but straight away the first two sources are contradictory! "Beer from the Expert's Viewpoint" by Arnold Spencer Wahl and Robert Wahl, 1937, page 153...
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    Slop Back Yeast

    I don't have any yeast on hand and I'm wanting to brew tommorow. Would 1 litre (part fermented) from my current brew be enough yeast? I did a google search and came up with this article, while searching for information. Not relevant but caught my eye...
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    New section in the forum... "Recipe Tutorials"

    I think most members have a favorite beer they brew. My thinking is to have a section called "Recipe Tutorials" or "Members Recipe Tutorials" where members can post how to brew these beers. A step by step tutorial/guide. I think this would give me and others an insight into methods and...
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    Gratzer, smoked wheat beer

    I have an old friend from Germany, who is staying with me for awhile in February. I say I'd brew up some beer for his visit. He tells me about some smoked wheat lager beer he used to drink. Oh boy, my worst nightmare! Smoked! Wheat! and Lager! o_O As good luck has it, another friend is moving...
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    Coconut Milk Powder

    Can I add Coconut Milk Powder to the boil? I would like to add some to a dry stout recipe aka Coconut Stout... On the packet the fat content is 9% Its very nice in curry, so I thought it might be nice in stout. But I'm not sure how much I should add, maybe around 250g/9oz
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    Has anyone brewed Lambic?

    I have a 4.5L demijohn doing nothing and was thinking what should I do with it. Then I come across this... The grist for "Gueuze-Lambic" is a mixture of barley malt and unmalted wheat, in which the quantity of the latter raw material makes up 40 to 50% of the total deposit. After this mash has...
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    What are your favorite hops and why?

    I'm a boring old fart when it comes to hops and tend to use a small selection. Probably because of the types of beer I brew. Old fashioned English beer. My basic list... Fuggles Goldings Challenger Cluster Saaz Cascade I could do away with Challenger and Cascade and still brew 95% of my...
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    My Favorite Pub

    The Ale House - Reading - Berkshire - UK I visit 2 or 3 times per week - Lovely Place! This review is spot-on... and worth a read... https://shitandnotshitpubsinreading.com/tag/the-alehouse-reading/
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    Attenuation 55% Please...

    I know, I should know, but I'm a bit thick! I need an expert (think one comes here sometimes), who can tell me the best way to put the hand brake on. Honest I can make good beer, I'm very good with my equipment and am very precise with my brewing. Meat goes in one end and sausages come out the...
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    The best beer you've had

    Once upon a time I had a pint of Flowers Bitter (3.2%) in a pub garden in Oxfordshire on a summers day, probably in 1997. This pint of beer is the best beer I have ever had. Its the only Flowers Bitter I've had too. I think about this pint of beer from time to time and today I drove past the pub...
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    Oddball Ingredients!

    As a home brewer like most I'm not constrained by brewing conventions or beer styles, I can do what I want. Often when shopping I see a product on the shelve and think, that might be good in beer! Recently I bought a jar of Basra Date Syrup and put it in my brewing cupboard...
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    I don't brew Lager

    My son who is 18 doesn't like my beer! Not that he has hardly tasted any either. So I thought how about some nice lager, I hardly ever drink the stuff myself and have never made any. Had a can of Fosters once and have had San Miguel in Spain, can't say its my type of beer. However, this week...
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    Legal age for drinking?

    I'm not thinking about kids getting pissed and causing mayhem or getting themselves into any sort of mishap. My daughter (16) sometimes likes to help me brew beer and in September we make two or three batches of cider using our own apples and pears. She also likes to drink the cider, not so...
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    High ABV Questions

    Next week I'm planning to brew the following recipe for comsuming next December/January (2018/19). I reckon the ABV once bottle conditioned would be around 10% My interpretation of Adnams Tally Ho 6000g United Kingdom - Mild 500g United Kingdom - Amber 500g United Kingdom - Dark Crystal 80L...
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    Double Brown Ale or Not!

    I've not been brewing for awhile, so thought I'd need a few beers for Christmas / New Year. Also I like to brew something different this time of year and use up any odds and sods I've got in my malt bucket. I've come across this recipe for Whitbread Double Brown Ale (1954)...
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    Tip of the day! Don't forget what you learnt already!

    I have very basic brewing equipment... Mash tun (rectangle cold box with tap & strainer). I learnt a long time ago that my mash tun doesn't cope well with sparging. i.e. it's prone to channeling and/or uneven extraction. Leading to inconsistent results. Knowing this I double mash and hit my...
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    Water Treatment

    Have a read of this document I came across, very interesting. I especially like the concept of making 4 water profiles from 1 base water (London, Burton, Edinburgh & Dublin)

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