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AG#5 - Birra New Yeara (!) Going for a mostly Hallertau hopped lager with a small amount of Northern Brewer for added bittering. Fermenting with Saflager 34/70

OK - got two of the small Cornies from Norm, picked up a cylinder of CO2 from Oak Farm Gas (£18, no deposit for cylinder) and all the appropriate lines, disconnects etc. I get the process of connecting all the bits together - regulator to the cylinder (I trust the red disk thingy is a washer...

Having drunk a bottle of my Coopers Euro lager less than two weeks in the bottle, it got me thinking about conditioning time and the flavour impact of the priming sugar. The lager tasted fab but I'm sure there was a hint of sweetness to it. Presumably the sugar will take a while to ferment out...

Racked a Beaverdale Barolo, Beaverdale Muscadet (with 1/2kg of garden grown grapes to add a bit of blush), and a Calif Con Merlot. All tasted lovely at this stage (first rack). Bottled a Beaverdale White Burgendy. Kicked off a White Zinfandel kit and knocked up a quick batch of Easy White...

So, finally assembled the kit and just about ready to go. Thanks to The Malt Miller and BrewUK I also have all the ingredients I need as well (well hopefully anyway). I want to brew a Stella or Grolsche type lager. I have: 5Kg of Munich malt 5Kg of Bohemian Pilsner malt 5Kg of Lager malt...

Having read through Big Yins "How-To" on building a low-cost boiler I have gone and got two ASDA value kettles, tank connectors etc to convert one of my brewing buckets into a boiler. He mentions (as an alternative) to soldering the plug cable to the element connections to use a Hot Condition...

Made up a Youngs lager from the brew buddy kit. Bottled last weekend into 1/2 pint Stella bottles and a few old 500ml Coke bottles (for testing purposes honestly). Anyway, the Coke bottles felt fairly hard so lobbed one in the fridge for quality control purposes. Oh my god! I was expecting...

So...any ideas for a wine that won't mind being in the fermenter for a month or so? Bearing in mind that's just the first stage and it might take me while after that to collect enough bottles...! I'm away for most of August - so would be good to be able to kick something off before I go that...

Hi Everyone! Just getting into this home brewing malarky. It all started with a beer kit I got for Father's day a couple of years ago and finally got around to making. It wasn't at all to my taste (Youngs bitter). I then had a go at Turbo cider which was much better, and since then I've now...