Recent content by carmo100

Someone should tell Coopers that! But I'll make sure I get a glass one now, thanks.

Yeah, I thought about that. Trouble is it's all plastic and glued up tight (I'm fairly sure). There's no liquid coming out if I shake it or spin it. And there's no bubbles to indicate leaks when it is submerged. It's certainly strange that it was working and now it isn't. Oh well, gives me an...

Ah, I see. Well then it looks like a problem with my hydrometer, I wonder if Coopers will replace it... I did think it had read 1.000 originally when I gave it a test run in water straight out of the box. Good to know I wasn't imagining things. Thanks for that.

Great, I think I'll stick to the clear juice as it's going to be slightly easier for me to get. I'll look for Nottingham Ale yeast if I can find it here, it seems like many people favour it for ciders. And I've got a hydrometer so I'm all set :) One other question, I'll have just bottled the...

Thanks for the reply. I'm testing in the supplied tube using the brew out of the tap on the fermenter. I put the hydrometer in tap water and it sank to the bottom, so I assume it's heading toward 0 (the markings only begin at 0.980) and then it floats in sugar water as expected. The gravity of...

Hi all, I've currently got my first ever brew fermenting, I'm using the Coopers DIY beer kit with the included lager. Now it's been sitting there for six days now and yesterday I took a gravity reading. It was very low, 0980 in fact, I figured that it must be pretty well done fermenting. I...

Hello everyone, first time poster here. After recently deciding to try my hand at home brewing, I thought I'd give cider a shot. My first question concerns the ingredients. I'm able to get some apple juice from a local orchard that is pasteurised and preservative free, however they offer both...