Recent content by mrdodo

Wow, that's a lot of responses since I last posted. I'm impressed! Liking the name 'Bugger Brau". I expect the worst but I'll live and learn from it. I realise that instructions are somewhat unreliable for something like this: I just assumed (wildly) that if the producers were that confident...

Haha, brilliant response and totally correct throughout. Thank you. I'll take this as an opportunity to learn and improve. And I would start another batch, if only I had enough bottles! :)

Thanks Chiteface. I need someone to tell me I ruined this batch so I can start a new one. When racking into the secondary I was very careful to gently siphon the water in. I thought this was right. At some point prior to transferring it into the heatable bucket, I was in a mode where I would...

Dammit, I was hoping somebody may say "Ignore the hydrometer, it is not uncommon to bottle at 1.013". The instructions that came with the kit instructed to following (post Wort): - Ferment for 5-7 days (primary fermentation, right). - Get the beer off the sediment and siphon into another...

Hi everybody, Just brewing my first batch, a düsseldorf alt, from a brupak kit. Everything has gone fine but according to the kit I should be ready to bottle now. I checked the gravity and it was 1.013, and I've seen online that 1.01-1.014 may be a good FG for this sort of beer. But, I'm using...