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I bought myself a king keg for my birthday, and brewed a Coopers Bootmaker kit. I’ve always bottled before and I know that the longer I leave it, the tastier the bottled beers tend to be. Two weeks of in the King Keg and I tried a glass, all carbed up nicely but a severely underwhelming beer...

Hi, I have a MYO stout that is almost ready for bottling. It's been fermenting for three weeks now, and the SG was down to 1.014 on Monday. Yesterday I started another brew in my second FV, and when I was washing my equipment afterwards I dropped my hydrometer - it's now in very many pieces in...

Afternoon, I’ve got a very near the BB date Simply Ginger Beer kit and I wanted to get it brewing this week, but it recommends brewing sugar in the instructions and I don’t have any, and nor does anywhere else it seems. Can anyone who’s brewed this (or similar) recommend the best alternative...

I got started in brewing because last year I had a bumper crop of rhubarb, and needed something to do with it - Rhubarb wine went very well. One of the other things I do with it is make a rhubarb syrup, which I add to sparkling water for a rather lovely drink. I was thinking yesterday whether I...

So I did my first bottling of my first beer kit today. I think I'd better treat it as a learning exercise... Some things I learned - I need an FV with a tap - siphons suck. Prime first, not as you go along. That will get messy. Make sure you have a beer poured ready. Coffee is not good...

Hello there, nice to be here. I'm completely new to the world of home brewing. I have a massive rhubarb plant in my back garden, and being the only person who likes rhubarb in my house I needed to find something to do with it. So I put a post on Freecycle and ended up with 5 demijohns and a...