That's great. Was doing a little stirring before but didn't think it made that much difference. Will give it a go!

Cool. Like a whirlpool kinda thing you do?

Actually not really, the first brew I did I did a little stirring, was kinda trying to avoid leaving the lid open too much. Do you? Usually do my sanitizing during cool down too!

Wow, have been reading a lot of stuff on homebrew but never come across this. Thanks for info, I must have a deeper look into it.

Yeah luckily got down to range pretty quick as the fridge was cold. Wow that's real quick, I bought this one https://www.angelhomebrew.co.uk/en/wort-chillers/148-stainless-steel-immersion-wort-chiller-25ft.html Stainless steel not aluminium. It's not a very big one, probably should have went...

So it was 17 today, and I use an aluminium chiller, medium size. Just drop it in there. I got down to 29C/84F in about 40 mins, it's now in the fridge and I'm feeling a little twitchy about the lack of yeast in there! Will pitch when it hits 22 or so. Using us05 Update: had a little leak of...

When you guys say you are worried about oxidation, surely that doesnt matter pre fermentation. I thought you were supposed to oxygenate the wort!

Doing my second brew tomorrow. I noticed it took a solid hour to get my wort down to 22C/72F with the chiller I have. So I am planning on doing a half hour chill which should get most of the way there, and then just stick it in the fridge for an hour or so and pitch the yeast later. Am I doing...

Just to side track a little, I notice that some homebrewers vorlauf with a pump and a sparge head to clear the beer. Do you think this would be necessary or is it more an anaesthetic thing?

I always thought that final increase was to denatured all the enzymes so that you put a full stop to the mash. Pulling that big sucker out of there in one go surely means you dont need to worry about it. I guess we'll wait to see if any more experienced brewmeisters chip in!

Why are you mashing out at 77C? Doesnt removing the bag do the same thing? Look forward to see how this all turns out. I'll be doing my first ever AG BIAB soon, been doing full boil extract brews so far

Hi. First taste today after a week, v tastey! Like a really hoppy cask ale. Gravity 1.021 but hoping I'll make it to the 1.016 over the next few days. Dry hopped the 50g citra today after the sample and just hope I kept it sterile! Will let you know how the next one goes

wee question. did my first brew on the gas hob today. added DME before it reached boil (boil wasn't the best but definitely rolling when it got going) and didn't get any hot break. had the water spray and paddle on standby. do i need to worry about that? was worrying a lot about boil overs but...

thanks guys! worked out ok and good to know that it mainly affects the colour not the taste. the recipe I followed (Zombie Dust Clone - Extract) actually had a 60min steeping grains phase. as i was fishing out my little bags of grains i was thinking: i could have just done a goddam BIAB and it...

Hi, I was just prepping for my brew day tomorrow and before hitting the hay I've been reading that it isnt good to boil your DME for the full hour. I am doing a full boil (around 20 L or 5 gallon) and aiming for a 4 gallon batch. Ive scaled a recipe down so it should be all good. There's quite a...

Great thanks. Useful to know, I will increase the temp range like you said, took me a while to find a good second hand fridge!

What is short cycling?I have an inkbird, what sort of delay do you put on it? 10 mins or so?

So a kegerator is a fridge/keg right? For the guys with keezers, do they have an inkbird sort of thing going on with it going on and off, and if so, would that not burn out the motor? Thanks, sorry if stupid questions.

HI this is probably a simple one to answer. i'm making a recipe which has a load of citra (11% AA) hops - its the zombie dust clone extract recipe. the citra i got are all 14.7% AA. i've calculated that as a 33.6% rise and reduced the same in weight of all my hop additions. the IBU seems to be...

Thanks! I actually went a bit OTT and bought a 10 gallon pot to do 4 gallon batches (i think my stove doesn't get 6 gallon to the boil which seems to be the standard volume). so i'm hoping that gives me plenty of headroom to avoid a boilover, and a weekend of scrubbing caramelised sugar off my...