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unfortunately i do not have a bottling bucket, i usually bottle from the primary using coopers carbonation drops. I am fresh out of drops to use and for the life of me i cant seem to find out a teaspoon measuring set to measure out the correct amount of sugar.

Hello this might sound like a stupid question but i am about commence the bottling of my beer ( a Wilkinsons Hoppy Copper Bitter) and it recommends half a teaspoon of sugar per pint. Now i will be using 2 liter bottles so that would equate to 2 teaspoons per bottle. when they refer to a...

Yep. Will give it a go with them. Hopefully a good soak withy oxyclean will sort them out.

Hello I have been given a friends old equipment, most of it I have been able to clean (glass demijons etc). But I have 6 fermenting bins and a few decent bottling buckets, which are obviously plastic. When I have gone to give them a clean it appears that they were not washed out after the...

well at least i haven't ruined a batch. But as i normally just bottle straight from the primary, will it be fine to go ahead and do that now? Its just i have never bottled something after 72 hours before.

Thanks for the reply. I have had a sneeky peak under the lid and as i lifted up the lid there was a slight escaping of gas. only a small amount of foam on top of the brew. so i hope that something has happened.

Hello I could use a bit of advice. My beer has been in the primary for a bit over 72 hours and i am not sure that it has started to ferment. I have read through the sticky thread on fermentation and still have a few questions. So my beer is a Wilkinson hoppy copper bitter, i used 500g...

thanks for the replys. my brewing experience is limited, i have done a couple of the cooper's kits. i do like my ginger beer to have a bit of a 'bite' and i dont want to try anything too tricky, as im still learing about homebrew and i only have quite a basic setup. i have just come across this...

i was just thinking of fermenting a ginger based drink. i think that might be easier?

hello i have decided to have a go at making an alcoholic ginger beer, but i would like a bit of help before i start. i have used the search function and found numerous recipes all with different ways of going about it. i want to try and do it as simply and as inexpensively as possible, but...

i am new to this so i am sorry if i have to ask questions. i am not impatient to bottle/drink my beer, i just have been following the instructionns that i was provided with in my kit, and now i have had some great help and advice off people who dont mind showing someone who hasnt done this...

thanks for the replys, i hadn't thought about the possibility of leaving it for another week. i take it this would be ok even though for a time my fermenter wasnt air tight. i only ask as i wasnt sure if i should get it in to bottles as soon as possible because of the air leak. on the kit it...

hello i have been brewing my first batch of beer, a coopers larger kit. i am now not sure if i am ready to bottle. my brew has been going for about 6 days and now there are no bubbles coming out the air lock. i toook a gravity reading last night of 1011. this is the first reading that i have...

thanks for the quick replys. i have unwrapped it. unfortunatley when i went to my local homebrew shop to buy all my kit i forgot about the hydrometer. is there any point in nipping out to get one today, so in a week or so i can tell if my beer has stopped fermenting? thanks

i have just started my first brew, a coopers larger kit. after 18hours with out any sign on a bubble in the water lock i wrapped it up in a blanket and moved it to a warmer place, within a few hours it was bubbling away with the temp at 23 degrees. but in the last hour it has suddenly died...

thanks for the advice, i have wrapped a blanket arount it and lets hope that works.

it was 20 degrees when i put the yeast in. it says i should be aiming for about 24. so is there any way i can bumb the temp up a little bit?

hello yesterday i had my first go at brewing by first batch of beer. i used a coopers larger kit to start off with, but i have run into a problem. i followed all of the instructions, and after i had added the cold water i noticed that it was only 16 degrees in temperature. so i filled it up...

thanks for the great advice, i have had a look around and there arn't any brew shops in my area. so i will be buying online. that balliihoo kit looks great, i just might give it a try! thanks again

Hello all, first post. i have been interested in the possibility of brewing my own beer for some time and would like a bit of advice on the best way to start. i have been looking at the complete starter kits, like the cooper micro brew. are these kits a good place to start because everything...