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Hi Guys, I just made my first ever wheat beer tonight from a kit and it's smelling awesome! It contained coriander seeds and I had to put orange zest in it too, I'm already looking forward to this one and it's been in the fermenter for less than an hour. Are coriander seeds and orange zest...

I re-pitched as the old yeast was no good and now I have a very active fermentation and it smells great, looking forward to trying this old kit now!

Stones ginger wine is lovely, I'm originally from the UK myself, try mixing two parts stones ginger wine to one part whiskey for a really nice winter warmer, they call it a whiskey mack in the UK.

Hi guys, Just a quick update about this kit, it's been in the bottle for 6 days and a chilled one down last night and I can already say that it tastes amazing!! I really can't wait to taste this after a month!

I recently got a bench capper too and had the same concern, what I was doing wrong with mine was leaving far too bigger gap between the cap and the bell, try and get it as close as you can an then when you pull the lever down you'll feel it fold the cap over and you will have to pull the bottle...

Hi Guys, Just picked up a second fermenter, I've only been brewing now for about 4 weeks but have already started to feel the addiction getting stronger! Ive started to looking into keg systems as this seems the way to go long term and there is a system for sale on gumtree that includes the...

Good point all of you :) I'll leave it and see how it turns out

Hi guys, I picked up a second brewcraft fermenter tonight for half the retail price, the guy i got it from bought it as a whole deluxe package so it came with an extra spopon, hydrometer, airlock etc and it also came with a brewcraft munich lager kit which i have happily just finished making...

Hey Guys, Has anyone ever tried adding liquid smoke to their beer to get a nice smokey flavour through it? I know the traditional thing to do is to smoke the grain but wondered if anyone had tried the liquid smoke route?

Thanks i'm hoping this turns out well, it's only my third batch and my first time using any kind of hops at all, they came in the kit (fremantle pale ale) and the instructions said to make a tea with them and let them infuse for 10 minutes and then pour the "tea" into the fermenter with the kit...

I was a bit worried about leaving the bags in there as it seemed like an ideal place for infection but I suppose if the infection has got that far then it's already in

Sorry I should have mentioned that! I did wonder whether that looked like mould patches, there were two infusion bags, one is cascade and the other is williamete, hopefully this one turns out ok

Haha that's not mould that's the hop infusion bags that came with the kit

Thanks guys that's good to hear! Will the krausen always disappear at the end of fermentation? Or do you sometimes have to bottle with a layer on top like that?

Hi guys, Just a quick one, this batch of pale ale has been in primary for a week now and it started at 1.048 it's now Down to 1.011 but it's still got this layer on top, anything to worry about?

Thanks Guys I'll reuse the caps and see how i go

Haha sorry daft means dumb or stupid

Hi guys, Do you have to use new bottle caps on pet bottles every time? And if so do you cut the bottom safety seal off the bottle before you put the new caps on? May sound like a daft question but I was thinking about it earlier on.

Ok I bottled the coopers ginger last night and I was surprised to find that it smelt really good, it had lost all of its sweet smell and had developed a nice firey ginger smell to it so hopefully in a couple of weeks time I'll have a nice drop, I'll let you guys know when I crack a bottle how it...

Hi Guys, OK so i definitely didnt kill the yeast, its going crazy! The only thing thats slightly odd (it might not be i'm really new at this) is that i can see the fermentation happening as it looks like someone has got an aquarium pump in my fermenter there's that much activity going on but...