Recent content by TheDisapprovingBrit

Good advice, thanks all. I haven't tasted the hydrometer samples, but they smell OK. I'll leave it another week and see what it does. My concern with waiting was that it would go 'off' if not bottled pretty quickly after the SG settled down - from reading your comments, it seems that this isn't...

Today is the third day at around 1.015, although my readings went 1.016 -> 1.020 -> 1.015, so it could be that the hydrometer isn't great or I'm just plain reading it wrong, since I don't understand why the reading would go up. It's the Coopers starter kit, which comes with the standard...

I got a Coopers starter kit for Christmas, and started brewing up the included batch of lager last week. My OG was 1.036, and on day 5 fermentation seems to have stopped at 1.015. From what I can gather, the ideal FG is around 1.008. It's been fermenting at room temperature which has been...