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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...