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I have made 3 brews now, all in a fermenting bucket with no airlock. All have turned out fine, I don't open it up too often, but did take a peek every now and again. I think it probably does slightly increase chance of contamination, but just use common sense and I'm sure it'll be fine.

Any reason why you carbonated usin gas as supposed to a secondary fermentation? Just asking out of interest.

Hi, I'm pretty new to this so may not have the most accurate advice, but the method I used does so far seem to have given consistent results. Instead of putting priming sugar into a bottling bucket siphoning on to that and then siphoning into bottles - put 0.5-1 tsp (I used 0.5 and carbonation...

Sneaked a taste of this brew tonight - a little early than probably should have, but tasted really great, a little too carbonated which may have resulted from legging to early, but nothing that wouldn't settle out. Proper hooked now, have the next lot in the FV!!!

May have worried a bit prematurely, fermenting very vigourously now!!! Looking forward to trying this one!

Hi All, Sorry, yet more inexperienced waffle!!!!! I started a stout kit yesterday and by the time I had finished aerating it it had built up a fair bit of foam on the top. When it had got to the right temperature I pitched the yeast onto the foam and some of it just sat there. I thought...

Ah, good to know Joeyriles - did you find any problems with head retention etc because of the increased fat content? Guess there's no accounting for taste Cwrw666 :razz:

Hi All, Not sure if I will actually try this yet, but my next kit I'm going to put on is a stout. I've had the Young's double chocolate stout before and really liked it, I just wondered if anyone had any idea if you could give a similar sort of taste to a stout kit? I know brewers can use...

Turned the tap a bit last night so it wasn't fully closed and there were still a few drips there this morning. Wanted to condition a little longer before taking any beer out to see if a little drop in pressure would help. Sorry I know this is such a trivial problem, just find it a bit annoying!!!!

Hi All, I just wondered if this was a problem or not. I haven’t actually used a pressure barrel before, have only used bottles. I transferred my beer from FV to pressure barrel about a week ago, since then I have noticed that a small amount of beer is dripping from the tap (not the seal...

Hi, I left it in the fermenting bucket for 9 days, this was why I assumed it would be ok as the instructions said something like 4-6 days, but have now read advice suggesting should be more like 14 days, that's why I thought it may be best to check. Yes also added 85g of sugar for the secondary...

Hi all, bit of a novice at homebrewing, have done one batch and bottled it, which turned out pretty well. Just done my second batch recently and used a pressure barrel instead. However I'm a bit worried I may not have left it quite long enough in the fermenting bucket and didn't have a...