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Hi Does anyone knows the effect of adding lactose (milk sugar) to a beer recipe as this ingredient isn't fermentable by the yeast? Does this helps the retention and foam formation? I am thinking of using this ingredient to improve the foam (Guiness-like) in a Irish Stout beer kit.

Hi. Every beer kit that I have used Dark DME has turned bitter. Does this happen to other brewers? Will the bitterness fade away with time? I had better results using light DME. I still have 2 kg's of Dark DME and I don't know which Beer Kit would turn good with this dark DME.

Hi. Has someone used this product? I would like to have a system with forced carbonation. This product uses CO2 cartridges 16 g but it doesn't tell how much beer I can carbonate with this cartridge.

Hi. I have a Barley wine that has a stuck fermentation (OG: 1.052 FG: 1.020) I am going to brew a Brewferm Abdji Beer kit and I am thinking of doing a Yeast Starter and to pour some of this starter in the Barley Wine and pour the rest to the Abji ferment. Should I do this or is there a...

Hi. Yesterday I brew 2 Beer kits: Muntons Barley Wine Coopers IPA and the temperature was 69 F (~21ºC). Yesterday I bought 2 new Duplex Airlock (60L (max) Fermenter Volume ) and since yesterday I cannot see much activity on the Airlocks. I used to use S-Shape Airlocks and after a few...

Hi. A few days ago, I saw that the 2 S-Shaped Airlocks have a few black spots inside... I tried to put them in a sanitization solution (chemipro oxi) for some hours and after that I tried to wash it with some water (garden hose with some pressure) but it seems hard to clean this spots...

Hi My name is Gil Resende and I started homebrewing a few months ago. I am still learning and still using Beer Kits but I am converted to Homebrew! I started with a Abdji from Brewferm and also made 2 Coopers Stout that are conditioning. Cheers :mug: Gil