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Brew had stalled due to cold snap on about day 3 of the ferment. I built my own little mini-fermenter with a clear rice container, a small piece of tube put in a glass of water. I drilled a small hole in the lid and passed the tube into the rice container and then fed the tube into a glass of...

I am a beginner and this is my second extract brew. I used all plastic bottles the first brew. This brew I used about half plastic bottles and half 12oz brown glass bottles and a capper. I believed the conventional wisdom that theres not much of a difference between beer in glass bottles and...

If you're lazy do one of the Coopers ale based Extract kits. They are designed to be brewed in Australia where its always hot. So they work fine at 78f or less.

I sanitised the little bottler but not the fermenter spigot, had the primary in a large Igloo cooler with water and ice for 3 weeks. The bottles seem to be doing their secondary fermentation fine, the yeast is starting to cling to the bottom and the beer is starting to clear up.