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Do you mean glass carboys? What's the purpose of secondary fermentation? I thought that could be done in the bottles. The kit says to just bottle or barrel, it mentions nothing about a secondary ferment, but it wouldn't because it's very vague! Edit: To be clear, I want to carbonate if that...

I'm kind of regretting going with wide neck fermenters rather than snap lid buckets now because of the lack of flexibility in keeping the hydrometer in there long term and ease of opening the bucket lid. It's a two man job to open the wide neck if we do it up too tight. It's 2 weeks and a day...

Thank you to you all. You have given me some really sound advice and have really helped. I'm not trying to do it to a deadline I was just trying to follow the instructions but as a few of you have said, not everything is as simple as the instructions make out and obviously things are impacting...

So is there any way other than the SG reading that will indicate how long is left? Keep wasting so much cider checking it all the time. Thanks again for all your help.

Hi and thank you both for your replies. Definitely still working. SG is at 1.018 today. Yeast nutrient was included with the kit. Google a sterilock, they are supposed to be a waterless alternative to a bubble airlock, but what it didn't say in the instructions that it says on the...

Hi there all. Purchased everything (I think) that we could need for a home brew hobby for my better half for Christmas and we have just got our first brew on. We are doing the Young's Peach & Passion fruit kit first. We are using wide neck fermenters instead of buckets. I will go through...