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I had twenty five perfectly carbonated, beautifully bubbly and clear lager. Went to share one of my last five bottles with a friend and it was flat. Opened another and that was flat too. Fortunately I had some other home brew (draught) to share so we had that and it was fine. I checked...

Hi again The Coopers kit I buy makes beer at about 5.25% alcohol. I'd prefer around 4%. The kit is one can of extract, one kg of dextrose, yeast and 23L of water. (Edit: oops, water added UP to 23L) Shall I add more water or less sugar and how much (more or less)... Ta :)

I'm making Edwort's Apfelwein and there was nothing about degassing in the instructions for that. Then I got carried away and looked up recipes for plum wine and grapefruit wine because my friend had excess fruit. So I have a batch of grapefruit wine and a batch of plum wine started... do...

1 Can Mexican Cervesa 1kg Lager Enhancer Brew Blend No.15 1 Packet Saflager S-23 Pitched at 75.2 (hot for this yeast) - I've packed ice around the fermenter. It's only been in there about ten minutes and the airlock is bubbling. I loosened the lid and it's still bubbling. Is it...

I went ahead and put that 4 day old beer in the freezer and drank it. I was expecting total ****e and was surprised the first glass had some bubbles and wasn't as cloudy as I expected. Definitely not ready of course. Second glass was flat as a pancake and cloudy and yucky. But I forced it...

...and I have a massive unbearable urge to chuck one in the freezer and drink it asap... I thought waiting while it was in the primary was difficult. This is worse! :rolleyes:

I made a batch of lager from a basic kit yesterday and it's bubbling away today. I would like to add lemon zest to it. Hopefully that is a good idea? First question is how much? And second question is when to add it? And do I need to take it back out again? (I bottle from my primary.) How...

I think I put about half a gallon too much water in my batch. :eek: It's a Brewtec Lager (NZ Brand) kit and I used a can of liquid sugar. According to my OG (1.030) I'm going to end up with a pretty low alcohol beer... maybe 2.5% to 3%. I'm ok with that, I don't mind a low alcohol beer...

I feel like a twit asking these types of questions but here we go anyway... I took the airlock off when I bottled from the primary. Was that the wrong thing to do?

My draught has only been in the Primary five days and the temperature had dropped to 66.2 the last two days which I thought might be a bit low for the yeast so I took a hydrometer sample to see if the bulk of fermenting had finished... it's reading 1010 (OG 1040) so I think it's going to be ok...

Hi, I know home brewing of spirits is not legal in America but we live in New Zealand where it is legal. My friend has bought a Vodka home brew kit and I was trying to find a spirits home brew forum for her to join... a google search has yielded nothing! Anybody know of a forum? Ta very...

I put on a brew of Apfelwein (thanks Edwort) about 13 hours ago but I forgot to take an OG... Should I take one now? Or not bother? Also I had to use plain old "General Purpose Wine Yeast" as I couldn't get the one in Edwort's recipe. Edit: Oh, and it's a half size (2.5 gallon) brew...

I always do things arseyboo... anyhow... My name is Tracey and I live in New Zealand. I'm 36. This is my first attempt at home brew. Here are some pics: Primary One: This is the fourth day this has been fermenting. I was thinking of storing my bottles in the bottom of the closet...

So excited... after reading heaps on this forum I realised I need to leave my brew in the primary a lot longer than the 4 - 7 days recommended by the instructions on the Coopers kits, so I went out and bought another primary set up. Now I have a Coopers lager in the first (4 days so far) and...

Hope I'm posting in the right section... After sanitising, do you bottle your beer while the insides of the bottles are still wet? Otherwise you would have to air dry and I'm assuming they would become contaminated while waiting for them to dry... Sorry it's such a dumb question. :confused:

When I read the Coopers Micro-Brew Kit instructions and saw you could make 23 litres and have it bottled within 4 to 7 days and then do the secondary fermentation in the bottle for 14 or more days I thought that was perfect. Now after reading lots of posts on here I see these figures are too...

Hi, this is my first post. I prepared my first home brew yesterday evening (using Coopers Micro-Brew Kit). This morning I found it happily bubbling away. Now I have foam pushing through the airlock. I added some water to it to try to flush it. More foam has pushed out. It seems to have...