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Well I have been away for a week and just cracked open a bottle, it's starting to come good on the woodfordes wherry. Each one I have opened up till now has been a bit lacking in head and fuzz, but the 2 weeks at cooler temperatures have sorted that right out, it's like alchemy.

I have been using the tap to draw off a sample, I don't open the lid

Bottled this up, it's been in fv for 2 1/2 weeks and reached 1.008 after about 5 days. It's sat in a homemade warming box in my garage at a nice steady 19.5° using a controller and 2 heating belts thrown in the box. I'll crack a bottle after a week or 2 to see how it's progressing then leave...

You're not wrong there, it's pretty grim at the minute. It has a nice home counties accent

I've had it wrapped up in insulation with some heat bands on it running off an inkbird controller. I had read that slow and steady is the way to go so i'e been holding it at 19 degrees c.

Yeah, no wonder mine got going so fast, the video (and a second one) both have a single yeast sachet, my pack had 2 packets of yeast in it

I can't help myself I am drawing off through the tap, I not opening the lid, I know it's still not the right thing to do. I shall watch that video this evening and see how you pro's are doing it. Wayne

I just drew off another sample and it's down to 1.010 it's starting to clear up. I'll draw off another sample on Wednesday to see how it looks, but the plan is to leave it till this time next week to clear up, then rack it in bottles. Does anyone have recommendations for how many carbonation...

Unfortunately not, it is in a garage and I have no way of cold crashing (it's probably still a bit warm in the UK to just take off the heaters and let nature do it). I'll just have to take the long way round and let them clear up in the bottles.

I have it in the garage wrapped in loads of bubble wrap so it is always nice and dark. I'll let it sit for a bit.

Thanks Haole, I'll do that then, let it clear up a bit. Before I take more readings.

Well after 4 short days I decided to take an sg, it's down to 1013, the og was somewhere in the region of 1035-1040 (I couldn't figure a good way to get a good reading the first day). It's still very cloudy so I'm planning on taking another reading tomorrow and Monday to see if it has settled. I...

I'll post some pics up at each stage of this brew and you can all critique me

Thanks David, you know what it's like when you start something new and immediately start panicking. My dad has also started homebrew ING and put a kit on as soon as I told him I was doing on, but he let his get up to 26 degrees over the first night so I figure as long as I didn't mess up the...

Hi all, I'm new to the forum, and new to home brewing. From the UK, it's nice and cold so I have a heat belt round my fv in the garage. I want to try some laget but wanted to get a few brews under my belt before I went making a chiller chamber. I'm making my first batch of woodfordes...