Equipment Reviews

You’ve just finished your first ever brew, the airlock has stopped bubbling, and now you’re staring at a glass tube floating in a jar of beer wondering what on earth…

You have just bottled your third batch of pale ale and something tastes wrong. Not infected-wrong, but a faint plasticky tang that was not there in the first two. You…

You’ve just finished your first all-grain brew, the wort is cooling in the fermenter, and you realise you have no idea what the starting gravity actually is. That cheap hydrometer…

You pitched your yeast at the right temperature, left the fermenter in the spare room, and came back three days later to a beer that tastes like banana bread mixed…

You’ve just finished a 60-minute boil, you’ve hit your target gravity, and now you’re staring at 23 litres of near-boiling wort that needs to drop from 100°C to 20°C before…

You’ve pitched your yeast, sealed the fermenter, and the airlock is bubbling away nicely. Everything looks right — but how do you actually know what’s happening inside? That’s what gravity…

You have brewed your first batch of beer in a plastic bucket from a starter kit, and it turned out surprisingly drinkable. Now you want to do it properly. The…

You’ve bottled your last batch. It took an entire evening — washing, sanitising, filling, capping, cleaning up the spills. Fifty bottles lined up on the kitchen floor, each one a…

You’ve just bottled your third batch of pale ale and it tastes like a wet plaster. Not hops, not malt — plaster. You followed the recipe to the letter, hit…

You’ve followed the recipe to the letter — same grain bill, same hops, same yeast — but the beer tastes flat and lifeless. Maybe there’s an odd tartness that shouldn’t…