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Ok, just had a look in to see how the stout is going. I've not heard of or seen this before but my stout has bubbled all the way through my airlock. There's a bunch of foam and brew etc bubbling through. Smells ok. 2 things Is it infected? also, is there hope of saving the brew?

Oh, so sorry. I'm an Australian. It's a Coopers Stout, just a tinned (canned?) wort that you add a Kilogram (kg) or sugar to. Doesn't really say in the kit about OG and FG. Might have been on the packaging that I threw away :confused:

Yeah, Maths... I'm a total geek hahaha. Solid, I'll leave at least a week before I take another reading and taste the sample. It's already tasting better than the draught I put down for my first batch.

Sweet, thanks. Thought that might be the case. Would you suggest leaving it the standard 2 weeks?

I put down my second brew last night. A Stout from a tin. Smelled pretty amazing going into the fermenter. I made sure everything was sterile etc. I used a kilo of regular white sugar. Gave it a taste and took a SG reading before pitching the yeast. Tasted right and SG was 1060 (is this...

Worked a treat. Put a Stout down last night. Airlock is going off! :)

Thanks heaps. I'll give it a go. Really appreciate the info Gents.

Sorry, I live in Australia. I've not heard of Oxyclean. From what can tell it's a clothes washing powder??

Thanks for the tip. What can I say... I'm a NOOB :)

Thanks for the response. Really appreciate it. I'm in Aus, not familiar with Oxyclean. From what I can tell, it's a laundry (washing) powder?

Ok, so I'm really new to brewing. I just bottled my first brew. Came out ok, a little light but all in all, not bad start. Once I bottled and cleaned all my equipment, i put everything away. Stupidly I stored my sterilizing powder, in it's jar in my fermenter (plastic). While putting...