Recent content by rhino001

Brilliant! Cheers Randall

I have recently started fermenting a wheat beer which had gone through the initial few days of fermentation and the krausen had settled etc. I then added some dried orange peel and czech saaz hops straight in to the fermenter (directions from the guy at the brew shop). After about 2 hours I now...

Thanks Ogri appreciate it. yeah im thinking i might not have mixed it enough, beginners error since it was my very first brew. Yeah ive read in other posts about the coopers strange instructions, the kit came with a lager beer kit with yeast included, but the instructions in the beer kit say...

I have recently purchased a coopers diy beer kit and have got a coopers lager fermenting. There was visible signs of fermentation after 3 days, but since then my gravity readings have stayed the same each day. My OG was 1032 and it has plateaued at 1015 and not changed for 3 days. This is a...

I am new to brewing and have also just purchased a micro brew kit and would like to understand a few of the concepts that are being talked about here. I do not understand what the krausen collar does. You mention that it does the same thing as an airlock, what function does an airlock do and...