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Welcome, Mo and Pete. I hope you find the site useful.

Welcome Mo and Pete.

The biggest problem with brewing in an appartment is the boil. A 5 Gallon boiler indoors isnt a runner. You can boil on the stove/cooker but your boil volumes will be reduced. With regard to All Grain Brewing, the extra kit (mashtun) is a picnic cooler, this doesnt take up much space - I suppose you have grain storage but I wouldnt recommend storing grain for more than 3 batches anyway.
So if you are kit brewing at the moment just scale the all grain down to your current boil volume and your good to go.

Thanks Partridge9,

I will let you know how it works out and the method that I used. It will probably be a couple of weeks before I put on the all grain brew.

"Momos":kayxc2es wrote: Thanks Partridge9,

I will let you know how it works out and the method that I used. It will probably be a couple of weeks before I put on the all grain brew.[/quote:kayxc2es]

Hi Mo,

There is an easy method for appartment brewing using the brew in a bag, BIAB technique. If you have a read up on <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="biabrewer.info">biabrewer.info and look into the maxi and mini BIAB techniques and see what would suit your present boiler I reckon you could be brewing all-grain in no time.

The technique bases itself on post boil dilution to get to the volume from a concentrated wort.

Hi All, I'm Dave from Naas,
Made a coopers canadian blonde larger, muntons continental pilsner and a bitter is ready for bottling, I'm going to have a go at the coopers Irish stout tonight if anyone has any tips, I'm going to use an immersion heater in my vat to keep the fermentation at the same temp and I was thinking of moving it into a second vat after a week to see if it help lessen any sediment? I'm also not sure whether to add carbonation drops to it considering its a stout, any advice?

Welcome aboard, Dave.

Looks to me a bit like you're over-engineering this. Chances are wherever you're fermenting should be plenty warm enough this time of year -- a heater runs the risk of it getting too warm and the yeast throwing off flavours. You'll get sediment either way, and clarity isn't really an issue with stout so I'd be inclined not to bother with a secondary. And if you don't carbonate it some way it'll be flat, so I'd say you'll need the carbonation drops.

Good luck!