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Just to sterilise, I wouldnt be leaving it soaking, thanks I'll use this!

Evening all, I've just moved my current brew from the FV to a PB and wont be brewing another kit for a few weeks, I was wondering if it was safe to use a quarter cap of bleach in my 40 pint bucket with my filters and paddles and everything in it to kill any unwanteds off, last time I left kit...

I've done the same before, the only down side was you'll likely end up needing to wait longer for the brew to clear, but it didnt negatively impact my brew when I did it... you should be okay :) As for the froth, did you stirr the brew when you added them? Could it have been that?

Thanks guys, Didnt want to mess it up :D

Heya! I have a festival beer kit that will be coming up to the hop stage in the next week, the destruction sheet says to hop and leave them in there for 5 days, from what I think I've heard that's quite a long time and may give off flavours. Does this seem slightly excessive? I'm sure I read...

Just took a reading.. OG was 1062 SG today was 1022 So that makes it about 5.2% I think? Seems it has been very busy... I'll give it a couple of weeks and see how its going. Thanks all :)

Thanks, I was thinking this myself.. I'll check the SG tonight and see where we stand, if it hasnt moved much I might buy a liquid yeast and add it in to kick start it.

Not yet, I have the OG so I'll take a reading tonight when I get in from work to see if theres been any change. Not sure why I hadnt thought about that myself to be honest. Thanks

Well, usually I'm getting glugging from the airlock every 30-60 seconds. This time I've sat there for 5 minutes and it hasnt glugged once.

Hiya, We started a festival beer kit on the 6th/7th (late in the evening) we've had it sat in the living room as that is currently the coolest part of the house, it has started to ferment but very -very- slowly, wondering if this is normal in the heat we've recently had, it got up to 26-27c a...

Thanks, i thought easy kegs were thos brew in the little barrel kits! Seems I was wrong! Sorry for the post.

Hiya, I'd seen it mentioned somewhere that you can buy kits to recycle those 5l kegs of hobgoblin and other beers you find in asda/tesco. Does anyone know what these kits are called? Had a look on eBay but they all include the keg... albeit at a reasonable price. -Link

I'll give it a few weeks to stand first, theres no rush to drink it yet! If that fails I'll try opening it, adding finings then discharging a CO2 bulb into it... I'd just have to be really careful doing that. There shouldnt be too much sediment as when I racked it off I pulled it though a...

Hello! I've had a brew in the PB for about a week and a half now, today I thought I'd take a look at it, see how it's going and unfortunately it's still REALLY cloudy... it's been sitting in a cool room almost since it was put in the PB (part a few days to allow it to carb) how can I get it to...

I'd be really interested to find out how this turns out! Let us know when you've sampled some :D

I kinda made a similar mistake and at the end of a brew added a load of campden tablets to my beer - it didnt turn out well. Sadly had to bin the batch but you live and learn... if the sanitiser is not chlorine based as mentioned by steve, I'd probably leave it and see how it goes... if it is...

Thanks Joel! I'll give the honey a go for starters I think, seems straight forward :D

Morning! Couple of kit questions as I want to start lining up my next kit soon! I'm looking for two very different styles, first is a belgian style ale, the mrs quite liked them when we went to Bruges last year so wanted to try and recreate something similar to Zot Blonde, I imagine this would...

Sound advice, thanks!:thumb:

Thanks both, I have a pressure barrel, I'll transfer it after the dry hopping is complete (probably tomorrow) and prime it then let it sit for a few weeks before sampling. I assume priming it will still work as i'm seeing the CO2 continue to rise now.. hopefully it only stunned the yeast :D