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Thanks for the tips!! Would be lost without this forum

Yea its a coopers plastic tub. Ive never used saison yeast before. Have you had any thing look similar. Its been fermenting about a week now

Hi again, a new brew is starting to worry me again. Extract kits with added saaz. Is this looking infected?

I ended up discarding this brew. I liked the idea about straining and racking to a secondary for a year or so but as i have limited equipment, i decided i will start over. I have spent hours looking at this on the net and this forum has still been a lot more helpful so thank you everyone who is...

That's a shame. Thanks for the heads up. Is there anything that can be done to bring the beer back from the grave?

Hi there, I have had this brew on for about 3 weeks. Its a Pale ale extract with added cascade hops. Wheni opened the top there was a very strong alcohol smell and odd appaerance as shown in the pick. Is this an infection? Thanks for the help.

Hi all, Very new to brewing and have a cascade porter beer kit to have a go with. Ive got a couple very basic recipes lined up but wanted to get some feedback on the use of honey, coffee and vanilla (not all together). If i was to add any of these, would there be a big impact on the abv and is...

I boiled about 2 litres of water from the malt and added it to the fermenter so hoping its ok. Thank you for your comments. This forum had been very helpful so far.

Hi everyone, Brand new to brewing and would love some advice on my coopers dark ale. I used the coopers dark ale beer kit and dark malt tin along with 1kg of sugar and 2 packs of ale yeast as per a recipe i found online. Steeped 300g of chocolate malt overnight and added. I added about 200 g of...