Recent content by Infinitrium

Since I first registered and posted here, I've made a Coopers Lager kit which turned out pretty terrible. I followed the instructions included with that kit, 1 week in the fermenter and 2 weeks in the bottles. This was a terrible brew. I've got a few bottles of that first batch left, they've...

It's the fermenter vessel that came with the Coopers DIY kit.

I've got my fermenter vessel on my kitchen counter, a few feet away from a window that gets a lot of light during the day. Is the black garbage bad enough to keep the light out?

Is it necessary to keep my fermenter vessel out of light entirely? I've had a black garbage bag over it to keep as much light out of it as possible but then I got to wondering if that's even needed.

I'm going to be trying my hand at home brewing with a coopers microbrew kit I bought online. What I'm mostly fretting over is how long to let the beer ferment in the fermenter before bottling it. Should I let it ferment in the fermenter for a week or so (until the FG is proper? ) then bottle it...