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Good stuff Esquid :thumbs:. Deserves a pic I reckon :). I'll see if I can sort one, we have a digital camera somewhere but I'm a bit of a luddite when it comes to camera technology. My favourite camera is an old manual (well semi automatic) 35mm film SLR. You mentioned a couple of litres of this an...

So, I'm now drinking this. It is strong as I didn't dilute. I would guess it's around the 6.8% mark, but that's just from memory, I didn't keep extensive notes. That aside though, it is very, very drinkable. It's nice and clear, colour is good and my palate can't detect any deficiencies.So, it would...

So much variance, too much information. I'm just going to have to test I guess. On the kits I used previously they always said IIRC that a level teaspoon per bottle was sufficient. I didn't find that to be the case, and I think I settled on almost a full rounded teaspoon, so probably about 11-12 gra...

Priming sugar

Ok,so, haven't done huge amounts of BIABing (4th brew in FV now), but have done plenty of kits in the past. I've just had a bottle from batch 2, and the carbonation is disappointing. I do, in comparison to others, like my beer a little fizzy anyway, but still, disappointing is the word. I didn't tak...

I love that you have experience on the wine side. That is one thing on my bucket list so I'll be getting back to you on that ;)... Expertise is probably a stretch, but I've not made anything undrinkable or lost a batch in 20 years. The only time I had something go slightly awry was a beer from dry ...

Okay, a coupe of things here we need to get a bit clearer. The first is that you always know how long your boil will take. You set the time and then stick to it. Easy, simple, no mucking about. OK, simple enough. I had read somewhere that others continued to boil beyond time to reach a desired grav...

Thanks all, yes evaporation, makes sense now. Trub, not too much of an issue, good, I can scavenge more beer that way. I'm a bit worried about your dilutions; there's nothing wrong with them but I would like to see your BIABacus file before you brewed and make sure you had your dilutions written int...

I concur. On Wednesday, I sampled the first bottle. I had another two on Thursday, and another two last night, so, that's on days 8,9 & 10 in the bottle. There was a very noticeable difference on each day, and it is very, very drinkable now, and surprisingly one was almost clear. Do remind me though...

B4M's post on patience is a good one, but, don't overdo it with a recipe such as the one I know you have brewed. In 10 days, it might taste not quite right, but, after 21 days, I don't think that recipe would get much better (on some other beers, my advice would be incorrect). On that basis I recko...

First brew

Just drank a bottle of my first AG, which was a SMaSH MO with amarillo hop (think that's the correct spelling). Since it was the first AG I had done and because I'm doing stovetop BIAB, I'm only brewing in small quantities (about 2 gallons), and with the first effort I reckon mash temps were all ove...

It's probably fair to say that I'm a "hop head" too. By the looks of BIABacus I have to enter the "Alpha" manually, which makes some sense given the variance I can see for quoted Alpha figures on the brew site I'm considering buying from. I guess there's no real way of testing that for homebrewers t...

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