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Hi folks, I saw a video on CraigTube about adding grains to a beer kit to bump it up a little and give it a bit of a fresher taste. I was wondering about doing a Coopers Irish Stout with 500g of chocolate malt (as well as 500g medium spraymalt, 300g dark brown sugar of some description as 200g...

Thanks. I live in the UK though... They're an American firm, right?! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Thanks. I live in the UK though... They're an American firm, right?! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I was hoping to do the Coopers Irish Stout kit and add some chocolate malt (around 500g). Obviously, I get those grains wouldn't work in an IPA! Not quite ready to do extract brews yet with boiling stuff. I was going to but got confused by what pot size I needed and topping up with cold...

Surely a beer kit already contains certain grains within the hopped concentrate. How do you know you're not just adding more of the same? For example, I want to make a stout and was thinking of adding some chocolate malt. But what if the kit already has lots of this in it, will it not just be...

Hi there, I'd love to 'bump up a beer kit' by adding some fresh ingredients, such as speciality grains, but how do you know which grains to use with which beer kits/style, how do you work out how much to add, and how do the grains effect the beer' gravity? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I'm thinking of bumping up a Coopers Irish Stout kit but had a question about steeping grains. How do you work out how much fermentable sugar you'll get from a certain weight of, say, chocolate malt? I'd love to add some fresh ingredients to a kit without making it excessively high in ABV...

So I don't need to wash them all again? I mean, they're all clean! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

After drinking a beer, I thoroughly wash each bottle out in hot soapy water with a bottle brush. After which, I place over the head and bottleneck of each bottle some tinfoil to stop any dust, etc, getting in. My question is do I need to wash the bottles again before sanitising them or will I...

I think I'll just buy a new bag of dextrose and prime each bottle like last time . Worked well with my first batch! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

So far I've not had any probs with it growing in such a way. Seems quite stable to me. Enjoying the fact that I'm not checking my temperature every two minutes! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

How important is sterilising your priming sugar? I've got a bag that has been opened but is wrapped up and in a sealed container. Do I need to go to the lengths of boiling it? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I'm talking about bottle priming without a bottling bucket here. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

What I'm trying to establish is IF, instead of adding dry sugar, I added sterilised sugar that has been boiled, how much of the solution I'd have to prime each bottle with? Surely by adding water and boiling the sugar you are diluting it? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Or is there a way to spoon into each bottle the sugar water solution that has been sterilised as if you were priming each bottle with a 1/2 teaspoon if dextrose, and if so how much? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I've read that you can add your sugar water to your primary fermenter and then siphon directly into bottles. Is that true? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I've put my second batch of beer on and am using Nottingham Yeast for the first time. Does anyone know, generally, how long this yeast takes to ferment? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

So I went to my local butchers the other day and asked if he had any large food grade plastic buckets as everyone seems to bang on about using a bottling bucket. He gave me two. The larger one, which could hold most of the beer from my primary, really, really smells of herbs and seasoning! I've...

What is the yeast like that comes with a Coopers kit? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I guess what I was asking was whether the yeasts you can buy separately from the kits are dried, look the same, etc? I don't know that much about yeast other than the packets you get with kits look like little brown sprinkles. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew