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Nice idea, I made my very firstt one with honey and it really suited the ale flavour. I may do 500gm DME and 454gm syrup! My water is being prepared as we speak ... 1 campden tablet in - just off to buy my gervin yeast reading up on it, it gets good reviews and only £1.75

So, one thing i noticed before; my wherry went on Jan 2013 - doh! Do you think the yeast will be okay? And if not do you think the gervin ale yeast sachet from Wilkinsons will work with this wherry okay? This one...

Sounds like your doing a similar brew to me. I think were onto a winner! I'm gonna do 1kg of beer enhancer I like the sound of a strong wherry.

Hi, yea I will be rehydrating th yeast this time. I recently read up on it, never felt the need to as it went in the wort and became rehydrated there. But for anyone that thought the same as me apparently the cell walls of the yeast cannot stop certain nasties absorbing into them for a certain...

Yea i heard gelatine could be used. Has it not got to be cold for it to work though? I don't really have any way to fast cool the wort.

One more quick thing on this, does anyone think finings are necessary? And if so would you use them in primary to get a cleaner transfer to secondary or in secondary to get a cleaner transfer to bottles? Also i keep buying £1 sachets from wilkinsons at the minute which instinct tells me is...

Yea it kind of make sense to add the hops in secondary I suppose once everything has calmed down a bit. I'll probably still put them in boiling water as this may be what releases the oils on this particular brand. Thanks for the comments :))

Yea I do like it to have a fizz, maybe i'll compromise and go 85 :)

Ah i see, what is the reason not to do it during the primary fermentation? The hop sachet says to do it at this time, it also says to boil them and add the whole contents to the FV (They are in a teabag style mesh but yea I may weigh them down) would you still say not to do this?

So I have brewed around 10 kits now. Each time I start a new brew I try to eliminate a problem i've had with my last and also try to improve the process of brewing. I picked up a Wherry kit of eBay for £14 delivered so that's what i'll be doing in a few days. Here is my process, i'd love to...

Hi, thanks for the reply, yea I generally do a 20 litre short brew. I think next time i'll add 500g of DME. Cheers.

Hi, I also have this kit on the go, and i too have tried it from the trial jar and am looking forward to it. I had it in a pressure barrel but it wouldn't carbonate so ended up bottling it so potentially not the best batch, or maybe better? Not sure. Anyway i wanted to ask about making the beer...