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I've been reading a lot on the techniques of all-grain brewing but I've not really come across anything which gives a good reason for why you should go all-grain. Is it mainly just wanting to really feel like you've produced you own beer, or can you actually produce a better beer or types which...

I've made up the Brewferm Ambiorix kit which calls for 1075g of sugar to be added. Instead, I used 800g of light spray malt and 300g of glucose. The kit says the beer should ferment down to 1.010 but I assume using the DME means that I can expect the FG to be somewhat higher. Does anyone know...

The instructions on my beer kit say that after a couple of days in the bottle at around 20°C to move to 10°C for a week or two. How important is it to do this? I don't really have anywhere this cold - I could leave it outside I guess but there the temperature swings from almost freezing to about...

I was thinking of getting one of these electric boiler/mash tuns but I don't really hear of anyone else using them. Are they any good? Not necessarily the model shown here - if anyone has advice on the best model to get that's helpful too. (See the link for a description)...

It seems the more experienced brewers always seem to use wet yeast - either in test tubes or smack packs, but most kits come with dried yeast. Are there advantages to using one or the other?

Out of interest I used one clear glass bottle when bottling so I could see if anything happens to the beer. After going into the bottle it is nice and clear but there's also a couple of grams of glucose priming sugar in there (which actually went as a boiled and cooled mix into the whole batch)...

Hi All, I'm making my first batch from a kit (Muntons Gold Old English Bitter). It's been fermenting 12 days now and in the last couple of days the beer has cleared nicely and the bubbling has slowed to a small bubble every minute or so; the o.g. has dropped to 1.015. Is it OK to bottle up...

I want to start a batch of beer off this weekend but it's a kit with just a small dried yeast pack so I'm thinking it might be better to make a starter. The thing is, I have no wort and don't want to open the kit itself till I'm ready to start fermenting. Is there any reason why I couldn't...

I just started brewing from a kit (Muntons Gold: Old English Bitter) and I just noticed the kit is a year past its "best before" date; wish I'd noticed before I opened it! Is this likely to be a real problem? Everything was sealed in tins, it's certainly bubbling away fine, so I guess the...