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So, I brewed the English Bitter and the foam in the main fermenter has gone down now. My OG was about 1.030 does that sound right to anybody? I didn't use the Whirlfloc and strangely I didn't have a hot break on this batch. I hope that's okay...I waited and waited, nothing happened and just...

Cool. So I'm going to start brewing tomorrow morning then without the whirlfloc. I'm using the 2-row grain though. But, it also just snowed here finally which is good for cooling. I'll let everyone know how it goes!

Okay, because I just wanna start brewing this beer and am waiting for the whirlfloc to come in the mail. Just saw it's not going to be here for atleast another week though ha.

I was just going to post here that my beer has been in bottles for a little over a week now and still have an apple-y taste to them. But, this has put my nerves at rest....for now. I just wanna have a nice homebrew to drink already though! But, I'm receiving my whirlfloc tablets tomorrow and am...

Thanks Drew. And Union I was talking about the "Suped Up" coopers with the two row. I believe you used the Australian Bitter, but I'm going with the English.

So I just bottled my brew this morning have them sitting in the box in my room right now. But, I tried my beer and it tastes a little skunked. This is very possible seeing how I wasn't thinking and for the first 2 weeks there was nothing covering the fermenter so light could have gotten in...

Well somebody with the same kit had 1.014 This is the topic I saw and unless I'm reading this wrong, It seems like he's saying his OG was 1.040

Yeah....That's what I figured. So, I guess my ABV is lost isn't it.

I just realized. I took my OG after I put in the yeast and it was pretty high....3.01 Looking at others OG's this seems very high. Now it's down to 1.08. So, I feel that I did something wrong and will now get a very high, inaccurate ABV %. Is there anything I can do.

Ok sounds good. One more thing, my brew was bubbling pretty good the past 2 days but now it seems to have died down to just some foam on the top. I'm a little nervous about this. Has my yeast gone bad? What can I do?

well. the DVD that it came with said that after 3 days you should remove the ring, then on the 6th day start taking gravity samples until the SG is the same consecutively.

Okay. So according to the coopers instructions I was to take off the middle part of the fermentation bucket and put into the dishwasher which I did. My question is, do i need to put that piece back on or is the top enough?

Wow. Thank you very much Unionrdr. I will definitely do that on my next brew once this one goes into bottles I'm gonna start a new one right a way. I'll try not to bother you too much haha.

Sorry, I don't know why I said grains. I was just talking about different non fermentables for flavors.

Adding the grains is done before fermentation right? Or would I be able to throw in, say a bag of cinnamon today. (36 hours in)