Recent content by iMarkSkinner

I'm still beginner even after a few years doing homebrew. This question is about how to accurately measure the strength of your beer. Using a kit, when I mix everything up for fermentation I take a hydrometer reading, and another when I am done with the primary fermentation, using the SG...

Hi. Please go easy on me here I'm a total noob at this sort of thing so assume I know next to nothing when posting responses. I have a king keg top tap with the valve that takes hand held cylinders (Hambleton Bard Super 30) not the mini bulbs, I've recently purchased a fridge to place the keg...

Okay thanks, tomorrow morning I'll sterilise a measuring tube and take a sample

Okay, well the instructions have a recommended specific gravity reading to reach when its ready to go into the keg, is it safe to open my fermenter to take a hydrometer reading or will the air ruin the beer, sorry if my questions are silly but its my first time doing beer,

Okay thanks, I'll wrap a blanket round to protect it from rapid temp change and wait it out for the bubbles to stop. How long is normal for a beer fermentation then? I read about "quick to keg" kits but had no idea I'd bought one

This is my first time brewing beer, I'm using a kit to start off easy. The kit instructions say to ferment for 4-6 days until the fermentation lock stops bubbling. I started sunday morning last week so 6 days was up this morning, (its saturday evening where I am) so really I'm up to 6 and a half...