If you want to adjust your brewing water you’ll want to understand the total carbonate hardness of your water (alkalinity) Residual alkalinity is what remains after you’ve adjusted the starting alkalinity to suit your recipe.
Click to learn how to steam clean your home brew Cornelius kegs. Steam cleaning makes the wet, dirty job of keg cleaning much easier.
Click to read this blog, where we’ll talk about what sodium percarbonate is, how to use it to clean your home brew equipment, and why it’s a great alternative to harsher chemicals.
Regular Saturday meeting at a new venue where we discussed some interesting topics and enjoyed a great selection of beers, both commercial & produced by attendees.
Thank you to everyone that attended the meeting and a big thanks to the Victoria Pub in Colchester for hosting us this year, as always was a warm welcome (even if the room was a bit chilly to start with) and a great selection of beers for the afternoon.
Click to learn about ethyl acetate – a common ester found in beer that can contribute to pleasant fruity esters or found as a fault with solvent like features.
Click to learn about earthy faults in beer, what causes them and how they manifest.
Click to read about metallic off-flavours in beer. Learn what can cause it and how it manifests.
Click to read about DMS and how it manifests in beer.
Click to read about Butyric Acid and how it manifests in beer.