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Brilliant! Thanks

So room temp is no good?

It's actual grain. Is this ok?

It's actual grain.

My wife bought me the following ingredients from our local hone brew store in a prepacked kit. However, I have only used beer kits before so I have no idea how to make this brew. 4.5kg Pilsener Malt 100g Crystal Malt HOPS 70g Saaz (60 min) 14g Saaz (10 min) 14g Saaz (End of boil) FININGS 1 tsp...

Hi guys. On my second brew. have been brewing a Thomas coopers ipa with 1.5 kg liquid malt extract and a hop bag for 2 weeks now. Visible fermentation stopped about a week ago and temperatures were a little high in the first week at around 24. Second week has been cooler at around 20. Sg...

The wife won't allow! And we don't really have room. I'll work on it as I know how important it is to have stable conditions. It's in a cool, protected place, out of the sun and the elements

This had been really helpful. My fermenter is outside. Do you think I should consider bottling earlier than usual to limit the risk of bugs etc getting in?

Thanks all! Feel a bit better about it now. Patience is s virtue (I don't have!)

Are there any sound reasons you think the batch could be infected? Did you use sanitary measures? Did everything that touched your wort after boiled and cooled clean and sanitized? If yes you have nothing to really worry about. Yeah I sanitized everything but only second batch so could be...

Are there any sound reasons you think the batch could be infected? Did you use sanitary measures? Did everything that touched your wort after boiled and cooled clean and sanitized? If yes you have nothing to really worry about. Everything is sanitized. Have no reason to think it may be...

Yeah it smells ok. I tried to keep the temp to around 20 but not mastered that yet. I'm in a small flat with no room inside so needs to outside (not to mention the wife doesn't want it in the apartment!) so it's in a protected area in the stairwell. Not ideal

Not tasted it yet. Ill try that tonight. If it tastes ok am I good to go?

This is my ipa, day 5 in primary. Temp about 24 degrees. Second ever brew. It looks worse in the photo, there is a hop bag at the top of the picture but not sure about the other white bits. Theyre kind of foamy. Beer smells ok at the moment. Should I chuck it away??

I'm mixing a kit and instead of adding water to get to the 23 liter mark I'm considering adding some ice some water before pitching to keep the temp if the mix relatively low. I'm Probably completely wrong!?