Greetings all, It has been almost a year since I have brewed. In the last year I have moved from Dublin to Amsterdam. My go to styles in Dublin were stouts and porters as water out of the tap was perfect for these styles. Since moving to Amsterdam I have been trying various craft and home brew...

As the title says; A batch of stout with WLP004 stopped at 1.020. I gave it a good stir, but no avail a week later. instead of ordering a new WLP004 which I have to mail order and pay postage on, I pitched half a packet of US04 that I had on hand. Any ideas what to expect from this stout? or...

Hi again. So after many months since my last brew due to moving house I brewed this:- (http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... rtial-mash) last month. I cold crashed for 24 hours when transferring to secondary so I could harvest and wash the yeast for my next brew. It should be ready to...

I have noticed that in the recipes for feedback forum when people post their recipes many of the experienced brewers post that there is too much of X, or that that amount of Y will be overpowering. One of the Irish online home brew shops does give a maximum % of each grain type on their site...

There is a new Irish malt (Loughran Family Malt) on the market in Ireland. http://geterbrewed.ie/loughran-family-m ... grain.html There was some discussion by Irish homebrewers about how it would compare to Maris Otter (Scroll down a bit). http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/for ... 479.0.html...

Going to be brewing this this weekend would anyone tweek anything? or does anything stand out as wrong? http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... rtial-mash

So, moving to all grain. I have taken advise from this forum and decided to brew a SMaSH pilsner to learn the flavour of one grain and one hop rather than making an over complicated recipie where I won't understand where the flavours have come from. My name on this forum has nothing to do with...

Making the leap into partial mash while saving up and preparing for going all grain. I have borrowed this recipie from brew target (open source homebrew program), but translated the grain bill into the grains available (German Weyermann) from my local homebrew shop using:-...