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I think that's right - I don't think it should ever be totally flat - it should always have some 'condition' (i.e. light carbonation) to it. That condition will vary though, even within the same cask, let alone different casks/beers, depending on how old the beer is - i.e. it's likely to lose...

Did this kit a few times a few years ago. As above, leave for days, take a gravity check, leave for a couple more days and check again and bottle if its the same. For 500ml bottles I decided 1.5 carbonation drops was spot on for this lager kit! So I used to cut them in half! Pretty tedious and...

Pretty sure the Coopers Lager with the Green Label is the "Aussie Lager", in which case it's got ale yeast in, so 20c is fine for the fermentation. They do other kits which do have true lager yeast in and need to be done colder as you suggested but think this one should be ok. :drink:

I feel your pain! I wouldn't worry about it too much to be honest. The time in the heat will mean the yeast will have finished off the sugar from teh carbonation drops after a week or so, and produced the CO2 and that's the main thing. The cold coniditoning is good but hard to achieve for a...

don't worry about that - mine was exactly the same when I did the aussie lager kit. It's not a true lager, so you're essentially making a thin light ale, so it won't quite have *that* lager taste. Also, unsurprisingly, when its warm and has no carbonation, it's not going to taste great. You'll...

Let's hope so - they look great! Anyone interested in a 10L one?

Might be worth asking the guys there re: the calculator – there was a version of it up there a while back that had some errors in which made it a bit confusing! There’s a thread where people will take a recipe for you and put it into the calculator spreadsheet for you – it’s much easier...

Just to add my 2p - I do this in a small way - I only have a 15L stock pot (and I'm not sure my hob would cope with too much more). So it's a full volume boil of c 12-13L for me. You don't get huge amounts of beer at the end of it obviously, but I see that as a positive for me - I'm still at the...

They're great! No problems so far reusing the same ones for the past year. I'm keen - no chance of bottle bombs or any of the odd things that can happen to glass, lightweight so easy to store/lug around. Cheap too. Not as nice as drinking from glass, but I guess most people are pouring into...

Hi Big Yin, Quick question, as I’ve been thinking of stepping up from extract to full grain, and quite fancy doing a small batch of ‘back to basics’ style brew as my first one, so I can get my head around what happens when, without the pressure of doing a full 23L batch. So, once the...

Feel free to leave it in the FV for two weeks - helps it drop a bit clearer, and let's the yeast clean up after itself. The instructions exaggerate slightly how quick you can bottle it, just so they can claim you can have drinkable beer in a month. Not a game changer I expect - just the same way...

Lovely stuff, if you're bottling soon it'll have carbed up a bit by then. The carbonation definitely improves the longer you leave it - over the first weeks or so the gas is definitely there but the bubbles in the beer are still quite big and after initially seeming fizzy, it goes flat pretty...

I've just done this one - fairly pleased with it (only just out of FV and tasting decent) - was very easy. http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/summer-ale You don't boil all the water as well, which is easier if tyou're on a stove top.

So I repitched on Friday and there is no change today, 48 hours later. Is it time to admit defeat and bottle as is?

So, I gave it a stir 24 hours ago and I have the same reading as then, and it's looking pretty lifeless. Give it another stir and more time, or try pitching some more (rehydrated) yeast in there? Thanks all for the advice. From a little taste test it isn't tasting too cloyingly sweet. Its the...

Thanks all, I've given it a stir and see what happens!

Ha, well I'm sure you haven't any of these questions before! Nothing like brewing to make you fret, just at the point you start to fancy yourself as a bit of a pro. Anyway, first Extract beer went into the FV a week ago and has got down to 1.024 from 1.040 in only a few days. I'm now a week and...