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Thanks for the help everyone! I hadn't used a secondary so I have been reading about them on John Palmer's site to see what I need to do. Previously I had just put the beer into a 5-gallon fermontor bottle with air-lock for 2 weeks, then bottled and added sugar. After reading about the...

It was a lager home-brew kit. Cheers for the advice, I might get some of that Poly-clar to have by in case of emrgencies.

Yeah that's right I'm afraid. I was hung-over after a night out with friends and it was taking ages to sterilise the bottles and everything so I will need to exercise more patience next time!

I bottled my 4th batch of homebrew about 6 weeks ago and have been drinking it little-by-little because it's come out quite poor. The problem is that there seems to be far too much sediment at the bottom of the bottle and so when I un-cap it the fizz brings it all to the top so I am left with...

Maybe it just evaporates!? Try and think of it as the Angel's Share

Cheers all for the warm welcome! :) Got my second brew in the fermentor last nite and it's bubbling away nicely now ;)

Hello all, I've just joined ur site and am finding it very informative and easy to use! It's already given me a good insight into home-brewing but has also made me realise that I've got a hell of a lot to learn! There is so much on here that I'd never even thought of before. I'm into...

OK, that's really helpful cheers

Thanks O Pistolero Sorry to ask a silly question but what's an airlock? Is it just like a small pipe with a tap to turn to let excess gases out every now and then? How often should I de-pressurise it, or not at all?

Hi all, I've just joined the forum I've made one 40 pint load of lager from a kit so far and am going to start off another tonite. The first one turned out quite nice (although took longer than the instructions said it should). One question I really wanted to ask is about the fermentation...