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Hi i am going away for 1 week september 5th & will be home setptember 12th. I would like to make some lager before i go and transfer it from the primary into the seconday and leave it in the secondary whilst i am away for a week. If i transfer to the secondary the night before i go will it...

A friend of mine runs a local club and has offered me some of the cleaner they use to clear the lines & pump heads each night before selling the beer. Can this line cleaner be used to sterilise the bottles/spoons etc as opposed to the Young's Sodium Metabisulphite white powder i currently use...

Please advise what the finished sg gravity will be for the firkin home brew tin shown. The instructions are on the back of the label and where it should tell me there is something on the label so i cant read it. I phoned the shop but they did not know and have no more. If anyone has made this...

Hi, Each beer or lager i had made does not keep its head very long. I wash the bottles,bins etc in clean tap water then use the steralising powder also. I give everything a real good clean before & after use. I pour 3/4 of a pint onto the side of the glass then stand the glass upright and...

I am making a youngs bitter & the instructions are very basic. I checked the gravity at the start and it was 1.040 this was 13 days ago. Instructions say wait until it gets to 1.060 before moving it to secondary. I checked the gravity 3 days ago and it was 1.008 and have just checked it again...

I made some bitter and did all the usual things so not to take any trub / cloudy yeast etc into secondary before putting into bottlles. After one month i decided to have a bottle and see what it was like,there was a very minute amount of yeast in the bottom of the bottle. After an hour etc you...

I have bought some fancy corks that have a black ceramic top attached. The bottles that i would like to use with these have a hole that is a slightly tight for the corks to fit. If i give the cork a bit of help it will fit no problem but i am sure that when i wish to remove it later on the...

I am going to try a have another go at making cider 1 gallon only at the moment. Last summer i made 3 x 1 gallon DJ`s but when i came to drink it say 1 month later i ended up pouring it all down the drain because of the following. 4 ltrs AJ,no added sugar. 1,Opened bottle & it erupted like a...

I am making a bitter from the Firkin Brewery OG 1045 I am nearly at the stage for secondary but thought i would ask the question about what it shows about the priming sugar. It reads the following. 1 level uk teaspoon per pint ???? This then = 6.6oz As a novice i am not sure if this...

I have been drinking my beer which is in my pressure barrel and is perfect for my first attemp. As the beer level is going down i have been adding the gas to keep it pressurised so it dont go flat etc. I went away for 5 days and my brother decided that he and his mates would have a drink or...

Out of my 40 pint pressure barrel i am now down to around the 28 pint mark. I have noticed that it does come out under pressure anymore like no head when pouring as it comes out under gravity i assume. I have some co2 torpedo bombs and a red cap thing that screws onto the top of the pressure...

Hello. I have transfered the bitter to my pressure barrel and left it in my warm bedroom for two weeks for carbination etc. Yesterday was time for it to be put in the cold shed to clear etc BUT when i was walking down the bath with th barrel i noticed that the cap had a split about 3/4" long...

Hi, I have started to make a bitter MUNTONS TRADITIONAL BITTER from the Connoisseurs Range. It has been in a warm room now for 7 days and i have just taken a gravity reading which is 1.008 It reads on the can leave in a warm room for 4-6 days. If i take another gravity reading tomorrow and...

As i have just started making my own brew etc i believe i have all the items/tools i require to get going. I am starting a lager brew on sunday "brew buddy lager" and i will be making it in my shed. I have been making a log of the temperatures within the shed over the last week at...

Hi, I am new to this so might not make sense but please be patient. I have just transfered my cider from the bin to the barrell and now the bin is empty i am eager to start another brew. I am using this brew budder lager which is 40 pints and should be ABV 4.5%. I have a listing that...

Yesterday i was reading through these posts and someone put a link to a site that had either bottle labels or beer handle labels. On each picture in certain areas it would read "your text here" There was about 8 - 10 images. I think you could copy & paste them into your paint package and...

Making 32pints of cider & i started on sunday. I did not know i had to take the first sg reading but i took a sample of it on Tuesday where the SG read 1020. I have just taken another SG now & it is 1004. I have noticed that on monday/tuesday it showed plenty of bubbles rising to the surface...