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So I brewed my ghost ship clone for the 2nd time and 1 week later it was all fine , left it another day (Ie today), opened the fermenter and saw this, so I kegged minus the top obviously, it all tasted really nice and smelt normal ( same as previous batch) What are people's thoughts ? Curious...

I am about to do a beer and realised I don't have a spare fermenter bucket , is there any reason I couldn't ferment in one of my many spare pressure barrels , will use an old old with hole in and tea towel over or air lock ?? Can't see any reason why I couldn't ..any advise

Hi all, myself and a friend have been given all the stuff to do an all grain brew, well apart from a wort cooler, I was advised that I could just let the wort cool overnight and then pitch the yeast ? Again I was told this may just make the beer a little less clear, but can use finnings to get...

Sorry if it's been posted before but can't seem to find a definite awnser ... Am I right in saying that if I use 2 single can kits together , I won't need any sugar apart from priming ..I have 2 coopers stout that need using and want to brew without adding the sugar , ripe this will make it a 2...

Hi, had a good search and can't seem to find a definite answer , I had a lovely grapefruit ipa at a recent beer festival , would adding some grapefruit concentrate juice when I make up the kit ( coopers ale) , ie 500 ml or 1 litre , substituted for the same amount of the water , would this be ok...

I have brewed a nice ale and have about 15 pints left, if I move this from the barrel to bottles or mini kegs will it still keep or will I ruin the ales life expectancy, was going to move it to 2 mini kegs and put a little more sugar in to prime so it get a head again, but I think as it come...

Can I use carbonation drops when I put the ale into the keg to carbonate the ale , I have a few packets left over ?

Hi I made cider from tesco value apple juice and it was great , wife loved it so I thought I would do a bigger batch , so I did the same recipe but X 3 . Only thing is I have used a bit more sugar than before as for some reason I though I was doing 4 x the amount , no problems there but the wife...

Is it ok to use the dishwasher to clean my used PET coopers bottles and will that sterilise them or do I need to do that as well after ?

Hi all again, another question, I have a water cooler bottle that is 15 litres and want to do a small brew of brewferm gold that makes 12 litres , I have adapted the bottle from help on here to take an airlock , is this ok to use as my fermenting bucket is being used , can I just use it as...

Right I purchased a new hydrometer as the coopers plastic one was crap.... I have a ready just below the black line , about 1 mark below the black line, according to that it isn't ready ?? I will keep checking but I think it's staying the same now , does this mean it's fermented and can be...

Hi all, I am doing this recipe http://www.cider-making.co.uk/cider-recipes.html/homebrew-apple-cider-recipe.html It will be nearly a week and I will need to rack it ?? What is racking , is it just moving from the demijohn to another clean demijohn so I leave the sediment behind , I thought I...

Hi started brewing with a coopers kit and I took the reading as described at 40 on scale, a week later it's at 20 , is this right , also the cheap plastic one is rattling , not sure if it's broke, do I need to sterilise it every time I use it ?? Beer looks ok and tastes ok , not sure what to do...