Recent content by Ev0151

I wanted to make a mixed fruits cider. I was shopping the other day and noticed Ocean Spray 100% mixed fruit juice. By using this and mixing with ususal cider making ingredients (sugar, yeast ect..) Will it be possible to make a cider? Ingredients Fruit Juices from...

Does anybody know were you can buy WLP830 German Lager Yeast in the UK? Ive looked around on the internet but cant seem to find anywere to buy it.

I started a Coopers Stout 11 days ago. The room temp is always pretty steady at 22Oc and its still giving off Co2 gasses because im still getting bubbles through the airlock. The instructions that come with the kit say it takes approx 7 days. When i checked the Gravity i'm here on the...

Are these things trustworthy? Will the tap blow off during fermentation? Its just they look well easier to use if you bottle your homebrew.

Hello folks. I'm brewing lager and i bottled it 3 weeks ago. now last time i over carbonated with carbonation drops so i thought this time id use less drops so i only used 1 drop in a 750ml bottle. Now just earlier i opened a bottle to check progress and it was pretty dead - no gassy...

Its exciting and also nerve wrecking! Yer dont realise how much my girlfriend will kill me if this explodes in the spare room! Cheers for the help guys.

Ok so heres my make shift blowoff tube - Seems to be doing the job. I normaly moan that there isnt much action as far as fermentation goes! Why is it producing so much gas?

Im currently brewing stout from a coopers kit. It seems to be producing a hell of alot of fermentation gases. I was using a S -shape airlock but the foam off the stout started to come up though the airlock so i panicked and swaped airlocks to a 2 piece airlock. Is this much gas...

Just about finished the fermentation par of brewing my stout from kit. I dont have a keg so ive opted to bottle it in 500ml brown bottles. Just a question about carbonation - with it being stout i dont want it fizzy yet i want enough carbonation that i get a nice head on my stout...

So if i wanted a nice continental lager. Some thing with body like Heiniken or Stella - what would yers sugest?

I'm new to homebrewing just bottled my second batch. For my 3rd attempt i'd like to experiment with a different yeast. Say i was to get a Coopers Lager kit and discard the yeast that comes with it and use a Saflager yeast would i get more body in my lager? Ive noticed the kits kind of...

Yes it has one of the gas attachments on the top and i have the little Co2 bottles? So does this mean i dont need to prime with sugar - just just the Co2?

Hi, I bought a Coopers european lager kit. The intructions only tell you how to bottle it with Coopers carbonated drops. I want to put it into my 5.5 gallon kingkeg - so how much normal cane sugar would i use to prime? Does it work out about 1teaspoon per pint?