Recent content by frothy

I got a corny from our local scrapper for £5 - no lid but it's in better condition than some of the kegs I'm already using. Keg rescue eh BP? :) Matt

Hops/ steeping grains for an IPA? Definately steep some crystal malt in there to add some fresh grain & caramel flavours, it really spruces up an extract brew. A strong bittering hop ~ 10% AAU such as Nugget (USA) or Northern Brewer (UK/ USA) & you can't go far wrong with Goldings ~ 5% AAU...

I use a corny as the 2ndary fermentor & it's very useful. This way you can keep the beer in the same keg to drink from. You can add finings if you want and when it's time to keg you can just blow off the yeast sediment in the first pint that comes out. In no time your ready to pressurise &...

Do you have these in the States? 4" screw cap with a hole for an airlock & bung 2x carry handles. lucky excape there JR - still sounds nasty though Matt

DAAB wait till I tell uncle Jim :)

With all grain brewing you can achieve exactly the same results as a microbrewery because you are brewing using the same methods. Extract brewing can produce good beers and is a good way to start learning. I'm not sure about the idea that large breweries can't make good beer I simply think that...

Be sure to use an air filter on the air line - bacteria and spores are abundant in the air and without the filter you undoing all your careful sanitization & wort protection work by just pumping them straight into the brew. Matt

If nothing else I like using a secondary because it frees up my primary for another brew :) I use a corny keg with the gas post being used with a blow off tube & it's very useful. Matt

commercial pubs over here just use a dilute bleach solution. Before the bleacj I flush the lines with water and afterwards blow dry the system with a bit of gas. Matt

scratching my head here Making a brew with extract and I'm aiming for an OG of say 1.050. I need to know roughly how much extract to use? The density of water at room temp is 1000g/L ( metric scale is based on water 1g/ml) I know specific gravity is something to do with the density of the...

Ok well here's a few I've found - http://www.krotchrott.com/ - this website has the A)Frankenbrew videos which is a documentary about various MIcrobreweries that were build around the US B)An instructional video about all grain brewing here is a bittorrent link to a brewing documentary about...

Does anyone have or know of any instuctional videos for brewing? I keep hearning about one called Frankenbrew about setting up a microbrewery but I can't find it anywhere. There's this single infusion all grain vid on UTube and its in Norweigan :) Matt

guy is a legend! Palmer I want to have your babies...

Got some raspberry cider sitting at home a friend made - will let you know how that turns out. My family has a soft fruit farm in Northamptonshire www.hardwick-softfruit.co.uk but I can't imagine strawberries would be very nice infact I've yet to make a decent strawberry wine even. liking the...

fantastic - do you lager with the yeast still in or filter it out first? I don't have any popular brewing books (what are they?) but with extract brewing I aim through trial and error create 2 recipes of my own 1 lager 1 bitter well I've got some saaz for aroma, does the choice of bittering...