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I have the slight problem of living in a flat, so a cool basement floor doesn't really exist for me. The coolest i can get is the bottom of my dark wardrobe where the beer sits when its bottled. otherwise everything is done at 20ºC (and slightly higher when summer turns up)

Hi, For the first time I will be transferring beer into a secondary (instead of bottling straight from the primary). I have the following questions: 1) Does it matter when? i.e should I wait until fermentation is complete (the primary is really awkward to get a reading from….its been in the...

Lalvin Ec-1118 Champagne yeast says to use 25-40g per 100 litres. so a 5g sachet should be fine

I think it depends on your yeast. I am using a yeast that says 40g per 100 litres, so this comes to 5g for 12.5 litres.

I'm about to do a Brewferm Gold, and it says: Dissolve the brewers yeast in half a glass of water with a temp of approx. 25ºC. Stir this into the brew which is at 20ºC? Do I need to do this? Or can I just sprinkle it onto the brew like I usually do? (I dont have a thermometer) Cheers.

You can immediatly. You dont have to wait for drying. Remember Starsans motto : DON'T FEAR THE FOAM

i currently have the same problem. I posted about my beer a few days ago (thread can be found here viewtopic.php?f=36&t=45448) but now, where the white bubbly patches were in the photo, little bits of white mould have formed. I did a hydro reading yesterday and then tasted it, it smelt and...

Im brewing this at the moment, ready to bottle soon. How many teaspoons of sugar should I put in a 500ml bottle?

Definetly use 2 carbonation drops for a 500ml bottle. 1 is drop is not enough.

Hello, I made some Muntons Gold Midas touch beer, a week ago to the day, and I removed the krausen collar on day 5 when all the crazy foam subsided. A week on, the beer looks alright except for the surface of the beer. Is this sorta thing normal?....it looks like bits of yeast floating at...

Hi, I love doombar and apparently these two: Woodfordes Wherry Muntons Premium Gold - Midas Touch Kit are close representations of it. Has anyone made either of these two, or both and can shed light on whether this is true? or maybe suggest an alternative? Cheers!

Hi Guys, So I tried it 2 weeks ago (at 3 weeks old) and it was great! the head didnt last very long, but it didnt go flat, and it tasted great. I'm gonna try it this weekend, at 5 weeks old. Thanks for all the replies!

Hi Guys, So i am a novice, just brewed my first beer, but I really want to make Mead. I buy all my mead from Poland (damn fine stuff), but I really want to start making my own. Can someone point me in the right direction from what i need, to how to make the it the most simplest way? please...

Thanks!. I bottled last night. I've never done this before, so I have no means of comparison, but it just tasted like warm flat beer. You know when you leave your beer in a glass in the garden at a party with only a little bit left and then you come back to it, and it's really warm and really...

The first 24 hours where fine temperature wise. Its now on days 7,8,9 of fermentation that its gotten hot. (Thanks for replying)