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Hi All, Just wanted to pop back in and say hi after take a year off from brewing, I've just put down a coopers ginger beer kit as the wife wanted a nice ginger beer to drink over winter. I've brewed the coopers ginger before and was fairly happy with the results but has anyone tried the...

Hi guys, I brewed a brewcraft Mexican cereveza 8 weeks ago, it's had 6 weeks now in the bottle and it still tastes very green, so much so that if I told someone that it was apple cider they would probably not question it. The carbonation is great it's just the green apple taste, do you think...

Hi guys, I've got a batch of Mexican cereveza that I made from a brewcraft kit that been in the bottle for 3 weeks, I tasted one last week at the 2 week mark and it was tasting ok so I thought I'd give it another week before ting another. Weird thing is that I've just tried another two and...

Hi guys, What should a Munich dark lager taste like, I've had one in the bottle for 3 weeks and just popped the top off of the first one, it's got a lovely colour to it but it tastes very much like brown sugar / caramel kind of taste, I've never had a dark lager before so does anyone know if...

Hi guys, I've been looking at getting one of those jet bottle washers that you screw onto a tap that makes rinsing the bottles easier but having just looked none of my taps in the house have an external thread on them except for an outside tape which has a thread that takes a standard sized...

Hi guys, I bottled a batch of bright ale Friday night and when I checked one of the bottles today they feel like they're carbing up nicely (PET) but they have nearly all got a ring of sediment around the top of the level where the beer touches the bottle at the top. When I shake the bottle...

Hi guys, I brewed a hoegaarden wheat beer clone 2 days ago and looking in the fermenter this morning there is a brown portion of kreuzen at the back of e fermenter, does this look like infection or am I being overly paranoid about this?

Hi Guys, I've just tasted one of my young pale ales that I bottled 10 days ago, the flavour is amazing and I'm very happy with this beer but I noticed that when I was drinking it, there was a flavour almost like I had put a little bit of lemonade in the beer or made a shandy out of it, the hop...

Hi Guys, I just made my first ever wheat beer tonight from a kit and it's smelling awesome! It contained coriander seeds and I had to put orange zest in it too, I'm already looking forward to this one and it's been in the fermenter for less than an hour. Are coriander seeds and orange zest...

Hi Guys, Just picked up a second fermenter, I've only been brewing now for about 4 weeks but have already started to feel the addiction getting stronger! Ive started to looking into keg systems as this seems the way to go long term and there is a system for sale on gumtree that includes the...

Hi guys, I picked up a second brewcraft fermenter tonight for half the retail price, the guy i got it from bought it as a whole deluxe package so it came with an extra spopon, hydrometer, airlock etc and it also came with a brewcraft munich lager kit which i have happily just finished making...

Hey Guys, Has anyone ever tried adding liquid smoke to their beer to get a nice smokey flavour through it? I know the traditional thing to do is to smoke the grain but wondered if anyone had tried the liquid smoke route?

Hi guys, Just a quick one, this batch of pale ale has been in primary for a week now and it started at 1.048 it's now Down to 1.011 but it's still got this layer on top, anything to worry about?

Hi guys, Do you have to use new bottle caps on pet bottles every time? And if so do you cut the bottom safety seal off the bottle before you put the new caps on? May sound like a daft question but I was thinking about it earlier on.

Hi Guys, I think i might have just made a slight error, i was making a brewcraft kit and i pitched the safale us-05 yeast that came with it at 30 degrees Celsius, it has since dropped to 26, do you think i will have killed the yeast pitching it that high?

Hi Guys, Just wanted to share my first batch of beer with you all, it was a coopers lager that came with the kit, i bottled it 11 days ago and after trying it after 7 days i was a bit dissapointed with it, it tasted pretty bad but i have just tasted it again tonight after having a bottle in...

Hi guys, Has anyone stumbled across a recipe that is similar to squires one fifty lashes? Quite partial to this beer at the moment and wouldn't mind having a go at making some.

Hi Guys, I was wondering if there is a good PC program or iphone app that you guys use to keep track of your brewing adventures, like a log book or something similar but with built in features that allow you to enter the OG and FG and have it work out alcohol % Can anyone recommend a good...

Hi guys, I started a batch of ginger beer last night using a coopers ginger beer kit and 1kg of raw sugar. I pitched my yeast at 24c and overnight it cooled and stabilized at 22c but it's been 24 hours now and there's very little going on in the fermenter as shown in the attached picture...

Hey Guys, I just started my second batch, i decided upon a coopers ginger beer kit as friends regularly drink crabbies and other expensive ginger beers so i thought i'd have a go at brewing some for them. I must say that at the moment my laundry room where i'm brewing smells great, the kit...