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Had a bit of a knock on the learning curve before christmas 2 beers back to back got infected. The first (a coopers lager) I believe was when I dry hopped possibly the bag wasnt as sterile as I thought :doh: . Then second a chocolate stout I made (took a reading to check it was done because it...

I went to the BBC good food & drink show this weekend. Had a good time. Some thing worth mentioning, they had a stand doing those brew your beer in a bag. Have to say if the professionals cant make that stuff taste drinkable theres nothing down for anyone else. made me feek good about my brews...

The man is a legend (even if he does advertise Coors) [youtube:1ndchrms]M7FIvfx5J10[/youtube:1ndchrms]

Can you buy German beer kits online anywhere? And if so are they any good?

Would this be a winner or a binner? I dont really want to make honey wine mead. I prefer more the ale style. Going to make a small sample batch in a DJ Was going to use 800g Honey 800g LME 1/2 sliced (sterilised) orange 30g mixed hops (probably fuggles and saaz because I've got some open)...

I've done quite a few kits now and have started modding them. I've dry hopped, seeped malts added differnet fermentables and flavourings (like cocoa powder) now with my last brew I boiled up some LME with some seeped crushed chocolate malt, cocoa powder and lactose and it got me wondering...

Put this on last night. 1 can coopers stout. Steeped 200g Chocolate malt for40 minutes added 200g Lactose ( for mouth feel and sweetness for the chocolate flavour) 150g pure Cocoa powder 1.2 kg Dark LME OG 1044 The triple chocolate will come from pure chocolate extract I'll be adding at...

Just fished my bag of Saaz hops out of brew. First time I've dry hopped. I notice theres still a lot of aroma to them and they feel a little oily to the touch. It got me thinking is there anything I can do with them or is straight in the bin for them?

I've got 3 batches of cider on the go at the minute ( my first attempt) I went to check on them today and noticed one of the lids wasnt on properly. There have been one or 2 fruit flys in my brew room over the last week. I opened it to check and there was a very thin pale white film across the...

I've had a Coopers mexican cerveza in a FV for 15 days I added 1 600g jar of golden syrup and made the rest of the sugar up with exta light ME I brewed to 21 litres. I opened it up this morning to add some finings and noticed its really dark for a lager. Its as dark as a wherry I did a few...

Anyone ever used chocolate nibs in their brew? Would you recommend it? How did it go? I keep putting off doing a chocolate stout (despite Young's chocolate stout probably being may favourite beer I ever bought) because every method of adding chocolate flavour I read about I then I read...

Just started 3 Fruit ciders modifying a wilko's cider kit. Made 3X8 litre batches From left to right. Left- Added 1.5 litres polish blackcurrant juice from Asda 400g Golden caster sugar 100g Fructose OG=1042 Centre- Added 1 litre Aldi Forest Fruit) 400g Golden caster sugar 100g Fructose...

Left blackberry picking a bit late. Where I get my blackberries had been heavily foraged already (never seen anyone picking there on years) So I had to fight my way through brambles nettles to get anything. 3 hours later I come home with 3 kilos of blackberries. Scratched stung and stinking I...

Judt back from Aldi and they have just stocked with Des Halle in 500ml brown swing top bottles for £1.79. Thats not a bad price for the bottles alone. But the beer is actually supposed to be okay based on reviews I've read. For some reason this beer was not with the other beer but was on a...

I followed the alco coke recipe (using my lhbs own brand wine instead of the youngs yeast) SG was 1059. Almost 7 weeks later at 22C the thing was still bubbling (about 1 every 50 seconds). I'm planning on starting 3 ciders this weekend and needed the counter space. So on Sunday I stabilised it...

After my first go at dry hopping I've decided I'd like to use hops grown myself. My problem is SWMBO is not keen on the idea having us just spent the summer redoing the whole garden of new home. She thinks long lines of hops would spoil it. I,ve seen Hops grown on obilisk trellis but assume...

I needed to clear a wash quickly to free up a demijohn. so on Sunday I used a 2 part wilko wine finning. I put part A in correctly proportioned. But being in a rush a bit later I stupidly put the whole part B in without thinking. The wash has cleared 2/3rds of the way down but the bottom part...

So after much talking about it I started my first real modification of a kit (not just changing the sugar used or brewing short) a Maple Beer. Ingredients 1 Coopers English Bitter Kit 1Kg of Maple Syrup 650g of Suma Malt Extract 550g of Coopers Beer Enhancer 2 Will dry hop with Fuggles later...

I'm planning on doing a chocolate stout by modifying a kit. On digging through these forums there are a lot of opinions on the best easiest ways to do this. The most tempting suggests adding a85% chocolate bar and 200g of lactose removing as much fat from the top of the wort as possible. I have...

How much sweetener do you generally use to back sweeten wine. I made a batch of cabarnet sauvignon. I tried it before bottling and while it was nice it was quite dry, I back sweetened with sweeten using half a cup of sweetener. I found this amount on-line somewhere but cant remember where, the...