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My lack of posting is due to our different time zones (Im from Wales - UK) so I was in bed :) I was very pleased this morning to be greeted by the burbling sounds coming from my fermentation bucket - glad I didnt just chuck the batch last night so thanks for all the advice guys. Im pretty...

Ummm, this is one of my many errors in my first attempt lol - wasn't told by the sales advisor when I was buying all the kit that I needed a thermometer so I didn't get one. So unfortunately I wasn't able to take a temperature I just had to try and guess how warm I thought it should be :(...

Oh, just one more quick question (I promise that's it then....well for now anyway lol) When its time to bottle the beer, what if you don't have enough bottles? Can you just leave the excess in the fermentation bucket? Or should I either just buy some more bottles (can I use empty Cola bottles...

Thanks for the help. It has definitely given me a bit more confidence about my brew now (kind of had the feeling I'd already messed it up) so thankyou. Going to get myself a new bucket, can of the kit (may go for a bitter one this time) and a decent thermometer and get batch go on the go :)

Hello guys. I've just finished the first few steps in my very first home brewing attempt and along the way I have a few worries and questions. After mixing the lager malt, 1kg of sugar and 4 pints of slightly cooled boiling water into the fermenting bucket I then, as advised by the...