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just finished conditioning my arrol's 80 shilling which I think is pretty good except a few bottles dont have many bubbles, incidently those bottles were filled a bit too high I feel and there is not too much air in the tops. Some have a good head but nothing major?? Anyways I am looking...

well my shilling ale has been in the primary for 5 days now and I want to know if I need to take another gravity reading with my hydrometer yet. There are minimal bubbles left on the top of the wort and the airlock has slowed almost to a hault. What is my next step? The wort looks fairly...

Took measurement last night right after combining my wort and chilled water, but before the yeast was pitched. The AHS guide said that my 80 shilling should have an og around 1.044 and I got 1.070 at 78 degrees F. What should I do?? Do I need to add some water to the mixture or just leave it...

Just ordered my first kit, austin homebrew's arrol 80 shilling. I ordered the extract kit which is supposed to come with: Extract: 5.5 lbs. Liquid Malt Extract, 2 lbs. Specialty Grains Is this purely extract or partial as it says, Extract kit includes: priming sugar, milled specialty...

Well, not sure if I chose a good one for the first try but I decided that I would go with an AHS arrol's 80 shilling ale clone for my first go. I have ordered the extract kit with the whitelabs yeast. I have a 5 gal. stainless steel pot, 6.5 gal glass carboy with ferment lock and dung...

Well I have seen a few friends in the past brew their own and have decided that it is time to start going myself. In the coming days I plan to get all of the necessities required to complete my first batch. I am working on a budget for the first few batches and plan to add equipment as I go...