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I bought myself a king keg for my birthday, and brewed a Coopers Bootmaker kit. I’ve always bottled before and I know that the longer I leave it, the tastier the bottled beers tend to be. Two weeks of in the King Keg and I tried a glass, all carbed up nicely but a severely underwhelming beer...

Not sure if people already know this, but The Wine Loft is still trading, I jumped on a bus to St Helens from Leigh today for emergency yeast- glad I didn’t read this thread first 😃 Opening times are limited and you have to buzz to be let in, the lovely helpful lady did say they’d been having...

Thank you all. I shall start getting my bottling gear ready.

Hi, I have a MYO stout that is almost ready for bottling. It's been fermenting for three weeks now, and the SG was down to 1.014 on Monday. Yesterday I started another brew in my second FV, and when I was washing my equipment afterwards I dropped my hydrometer - it's now in very many pieces in...

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Afternoon, I’ve got a very near the BB date Simply Ginger Beer kit and I wanted to get it brewing this week, but it recommends brewing sugar in the instructions and I don’t have any, and nor does anywhere else it seems. Can anyone who’s brewed this (or similar) recommend the best alternative...

Luckily read this just before I went for my essentials shop today so picked up some cartons. Do you top up after the yeast gets going, or is the recipe just for 3L of wine? Also, does it matter what yeast I use? I think I've only got some Gervins sparkling wine yeast in.

Last night I started a MYO stout - my second go at a beer kit. It was my birthday this week so I've treated myself to a Brewferm Oranje Bock and a Cooper's Stout kit, and my daughter bought me the MYO. I made my first kit (the MYO American IPA) exactly as per the recommended ingredients, but...

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Do you just add it like for like in place of the brewing sugar?

Fantastic. How much syrup did you use? That sounds lovely. I'm just getting started with kits at the moment but when I get to the stage I feel ready to have a go at creating recipes I'll have to give something like that a go.

Rhubarb Saison sounds lovely. I see you're in Bolton, let me know if you want any Rhubarb later in the year :) Thanks for the answer, that's what I thought. I might still try a couple of bottles with it - I do tend to have a lot all through the summer. But won't expect too much.

I got started in brewing because last year I had a bumper crop of rhubarb, and needed something to do with it - Rhubarb wine went very well. One of the other things I do with it is make a rhubarb syrup, which I add to sparkling water for a rather lovely drink. I was thinking yesterday whether I...

Thank you Terry, I think my siphon problem was just down to new brewer lack of preparedness. I've made rhubarb wine before, and had an auto-siphon. It wasn't long enough, so I ended up swapping to a different siphon and disturbed too much of the sediment. It was looking clear before my...

So I did my first bottling of my first beer kit today. I think I'd better treat it as a learning exercise... Some things I learned - I need an FV with a tap - siphons suck. Prime first, not as you go along. That will get messy. Make sure you have a beer poured ready. Coffee is not good...