Home brew? Homebrew? Winemaking

Kegs are multiplying...

Would definitely recommend Brewkegtap to source cornys from. The two 'smaller' ones are their mid-grade one's and apart from a few dinks look brand new despite being from the mid 90's.

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A Spiced Honey Ale getting brewed today.

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First pour from the keg earlier, apart from being a little too cold for my preference i was pleased with it. Going to try again soon hopefully a little warmer!

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Brewed up a 9 litre batch of citra/pale malt smash yesterday and split it evenly between 2 demijohns, pitching with two different yeasts (us05 and verdant ipa) to see if I can notice the difference!

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Certainly a flocculation difference!

Haha I think that’s just all the cold break settling out after transferring to each fv (one on left was filled first).

Keep posting the pics as they ferment.

This is how the look 3 days in (have them in a big plastic box following my experience with the imperial stout spill)

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The verdant one took off like a rocket and stopped bubbling within I’d say 36 hours but still has some krausen, the us05 one was going strong until this morning, and krausen has all but disappeared.

I don’t have a means to take a sample from these small carboys to check the gravity so my intention was to dry hop after 6 days (Sunday) and bottle next Saturday, but now I’m wondering if I could get away with dry hopping today and bottling on Sunday.

What would you do?

When making a yeast starter ahead of a brew day, how essential is a proper flask and a stirring plate? Can I just bung it in a glass container and leave it?

Yeah just give it shake everyday

Cheers

The party keg is ready for summer.

Will have to figure out a more secure mounting for the CO2 bottle but you get the idea.

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Letting the yeast sit after fermenting out will mean less diacetyl and ester tastes in the beer as the yeast cleans up byproducts after its finished with the sugars to my understanding.

Should keep me going for a bit...

(It's not all mine, group buy for local HB group. 😉)

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Brewing a traditional Bitter today using local Target and Phoenix hops.
Never thought I would do a 'boring' beer before, but I spent a week in Devon recently and tried a fair bit of local beer and realised how good it was .
It was actually quite refreshing to get away from the extreme hop/bitterness stuff for a while !

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Nowt wrong with a Best Bitter. As long it isn't John Smiths.

So a gas burner brewer?

Finally bought one of these for grain storage.

However tipping the 25kg bag into it means malt dust everywhere.

Next time I'll do it outside.

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Yeah, been cooking on gas since the start!
Waiting for my mate to hook me up with enough SWA to reach the end of the garden (100 ft) before I go electric.

Nice, I use Geterbrewed all grain recipe builder to save having loads of different grain around the house.

Specialist grains I'll get in small quantities for the brew. The barrel is for the 25kg Marris Otter bags. If I buy them in quantity it's only £16 a bag.

Helps to have a van to shift a quarter ton of malt though.

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Waiting until I move next month to get started back into brewing as I mentioned above but seeing this thread pop up every now and then makes me just want to start now and worry about having to shift a bunch of stuff later

Easier to shift dry stuff than 25L of fermenting beer.

I'd wait for a while. New house brew?

That's a good price, I should really look into that !

I quite fancy brewing my own and a friend of a friend is moving and selling a Grainfather G30 for what seems to be a good price (about 500 euros). Is there any reason not to get it? Is there anything better for the price?