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Thanks for all your great help I have bottled half of the brew in pet bottles some with carb drops. Lots of room for squeeze in those and the other pet bottles hard as nails with the Demerara sugar. Swing tops in a dark spot not as warm will leave for a couple more weeks than recommended...

Grav readings hadn't changed for 3 days.

I shall invest seems like more sterilising and cleaning. I was previously using carb drops

Pretty sure fermentation was finished. 17oz bottles for a heaped teaspoon. Far too much lol. So should I release the gas every once in a while do u think

That's a good point I go straight from primary into bottles I don't want to stir up sediment or yeast and I dong have a secondary container. It's only my second brew so I'm finding my feet.

The bottles are now gassed and in a cooler place in the house. So fingers crossed. Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it, makes all the difference having a good answer. Cheers

Yah I reread the instructions and it said level teaspoon. I'm pretty sure I used the biggest teaspoon I had and heaped it. Ah well I'll learn some day

It was a swing top the bottom came clean off it

Yeah definitely. !!!!!! : )

Thanks Pappers. I just opened and recapped the bottles. There was quite a pop from the swingtop as I opened them. They are out in the cold right now any suggestions as what to do next would be greatly appreciated.

Oh yeah the beer has been in its bottles for only 3 days too

Ok so have a beer fermenting for 2 weeks and I used one teaspoon of demerera sugar to prime and last night, kitchen as hotter than normal and one blew. The bottom looks like it just fell out of the bottle. Am not sure if it was a weak bottle or a overcarbed. I moved them outside to the cold 6 or...

Hi all anyone know any options for me got a bottle bomb yesterday. Any suggestions

And any ideas on what to prime with?

Thanks for the good replies. So any objections to just plain old white table sugar

I'm new but used honey and a small bit of brown sugar on my second batch instead, seems to taste good just bottled yesterday so hope it will improve over the next 2 months. Primed with Demerara sugar too and done with carb drops so will get a taste of what works best.

Hi everyone I was just about to start my 3 rd ever brew, a Belgian pils. Could any of u nice people in here advise me on sugar use in the brew. I was thinking exclusively Demerara sugar. It's a 1.5 kg kit making 12 litres and an OG of 1.053.

Thanks for that. The kit was a cheapy only 9.95€. So I wasn't expecting much but it doesn't even have ingredients on it or on the website I bought it from. I know it was dumb forgetting the og. The difficulty with all the unknowns must be why there is so few replies. Thanks again I...

That's the beer kit I used To make 23 litres

Hi all I have a newbie question and a mistake. I'm wondering if anyone can help. I made a brew of honey beer and forgot to take og. My fg is about 1001. Is there a way I calculating alcohol level. I used 1kg honey and 200g of light brown sugar. Any help please would be greatly appreciated. Thanks