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Gravity have stabilised now, so I mixed in the hop tea made with 30 of Liberty hops boiled or 10 minutes and have moved to a cool shed. Will bottle in the week. Incidentally the thing about colour definitely seems to be true. The beer is a lovely golden colour that I have never achieved before.

9 days in and we're down to 1012. Taste is rather weird right now, it tastes almost like a traditional cider, although I swear no apples have been near it.

It's bubbling along nicely at the moment, although not as violently as some of the previous brews I've done. I'll probably take my first hydro reading at the weekend to see how it's coming along. One thing I forgot to mention is that I am using bottled water (just the cheap stuff that's 17p...

Starting gravity is 1060, which is a bit higher than I'm used to, but I don't mind if it comes out a little on the strong side.

I'm not sure what the answer to this question is, but I intend to find out. Going to knock up a brew with the following recipe today. 1 x Cooper's Sparkling Ale kit 1.5kg Light Malt Extract 1kg Honey Then after the primary ferment I'm going to add a Liberty hop tea in the hope of...

Interesting, that video shows the hop tea being added at the start of the process, before the primary ferment, whereas most other material I have read (including in this thread) seems to suggest it is usually done after the primary ferment, a few days before bottling. Are these supposed to be...

It's the taste I was after. I have made some nice beers so far, but I have never managed to recreate the real citrusy/hoppy taste you can get in commercial IPAs like Deuchars etc. I thought adding a hop tea might help. Spapro - Very useful thanks! Maybe I will buy one of these finishing kits...

I am thinking about using a hop tea to enhance my next kit, does anybody know if there is a good guide for doing so on this site (guide for making the tea, how much hops needed, some dos and don'ts etc)? I have tried using the search function, but 'hop tea' returns no results I think because...

After reading this thread, looking at all the options and reflecting on my situation I have decided that my primary FV is not really the problem. If I could just get a secondary FV/batch priming vessel with a tap that didn't take a minute to fill each bottle then that would be fine. If it had...

Not at all, I am finding all posts in this thread useful, even those on a tangent, and I am looking into all the options presented so far. Thanks everyone.

Hi all I have been brewing for around two years now and I am still using a 'starter kit' FV. It has served me pretty well up until now, but a couple things about it are starting to annoy me. Firstly it is basically just a plastic bucket with a lid. It has no airlock or anything which...

Hmmm, okay so that would make the spraymalt conversion actually 1:2? Now I'm really confused, given that everything else I've seen actually suggests you need more malt than if you used sugar.

Thanks for the DME to LME conversion, that's very helpful. Does anyone else have something more concrete for the Sugar to LME conversion?

Pretty newbie question this... So let's say I want to take a basic kit and replace the sugar with malt extract, what ratio should I replace it at? I always assumed it was 1:1 (so a recipe needing 1kg sugar should use 1kg malt extract) but reading a couple of recipes on other sites have made me...

I do have a hydrometer, but I don't usually bother checking until at least 10 days in. Good to know that sounds normal though. Maybe it's because this is a one-can kit instead of the two-can kits I usually make.

I have made 3 brews before. Every time, during the ferment, they have exploded into a frothy frenzy in the first few days, then the frothy head has collapsed leaving lumps of yeasty residue on the top of an otherwise calm-looking brown liquid. This time it's very different. There was some...

3 days in and it never developed into such a big 'frothy head' as my previous brews. However it is giving off lots of little bubbles (looking at it, it almost looks 'fizzy') so I assume the yeast is going to work on some level. We'll see how it goes.

It's brew day! To this point I have made 3 brews and so far they have all been at least reasonably successful. I am just finishing my Christmas beer (Superbowl night should finish them off) and I am now looking to refill the FV. To this point though I haven't really strayed away from just...

While I was in Bruges a couple of years ago, I tried a beer called Barbar Bock, which was very enjoyable. I wondered if it would be possible to make something similar by making an MCB kit with honey and maybe brewing a bit short. Has anybody tried modifying a Bock in this way? Do you think it...

I have tried brewing short and never really considered it modifying the kit. Although I suppose it is, in a sense. Thanks for the suggestions. Using DME and LME do seem to be popular choices. I also wondered if using honey instead might be nice, especially on something like a Bock.