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:cheers: i never thought of that ;) im sure it will pick up soon anyway time for another room temp ipa me thinks :grin:

ive just brewed and currently drinking a better brew ipa i think its nice but this is my first ipa kit i have made , but have a look in the beer kit reveiw section there are loads in there :thumb:

i dont normally but i got told yesterday that the company i work for doesnt have enough work for me for 5 days so only on 3 day weeks for the forseeable future :cry: :cry: :cry: !!!!

anyway getting my post back on track ;) having tried one ipa from the fridge and a ipa served at room temp , i can say that the room temp ipa was a far better pint a nice quarter inch head on it and a smooth taste all the way to the bottom :thumb:

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all alchohol experiments are worthwhile ;) except the one where my mate thought he could jump a 5 bar gate after a session down the football club :D

cheers for your replies , i think i will try an "experiment" in a minute i will try one from the fridge which has been at work and i will try a room temperature one also from work ;) man i love my experiments :thumb:

as my post title says , the only reason i asked is because i got a bottle from a cupboard opened i poured it into a glass and it was perfect :thumb: it had a nice head on it all the way down the glass and tasted lovely , the following i poured myself another one straight from fridge and it...

cheers for all your help guys much appreciated :thumb:

yeah maybe 4 weeks in the warm instead of 3 :thumb:

thats what i did last time but it didnt seem to fully dissolve thats why i wondered whether i should fill with beer then pour sugar in

lol sorry about that :)

i only have one fv so thats not possible :cry:

hi peeps just a quick question , im just about to bottle a geordie lager kit and was wondering whats the best way to prime the bottles , the last 2 times ive done this i put the sugar in the bottles first but was wondering if it would dissolve better if the beer was in first ?

cheers for your replies i will try and get to my local homebrew shop and pick up some spray malt :D would brown sugar be better to prime bottles with rather than normal sugar ?

would adding clear honey to a geordie bitter kit spoil it or improve it ? obviously i will still brew using 1kg of brewing sugar

i dont know if brewing to 20 litres will give it any body , but im sure ive read on here that the cheaper kits should be brewed shorter my first one was done to 25 litres ,ive also added some golden syrup to this brew so hopefully that will give it abit of flavour ;) , just hoping the bottled...

yeah for a cheap kit it was ok but i would make it to 20 litres as it tasted abit watery first time i used vwp and assumed i hadnt rinsed it out properly , so i changed to milton no rinse steriliser washed it out a few times even though you dont need to , i then brewed a better brew ipa and...

this is my second batch of this as my first one didnt last that long :shock: it got drunk over christmas ,ive brewed this one to 20 litres and used bottled water as my last batch had a bit of a offish taste it couldnt be the way i sterilised because ive used 2 different types and had same taste...

i would also check the trip switch in your consumer unit for that socket/sockets it should of tripped before blowing the socket , i know of several cheap kettles that have gone bang but never have blown the socket up , just blown the fuse in the plug :thumb: to this day i think its the same...