Recent content by JoeOneBrew

I'm fairly new to brewing but the above advice sounds sensible. If it's any reassurance I've just brewed and bottled this beer. Similar experience with airlock activity although mine maybe lasted a few extra days. The gravity took over 2 weeks to settle though, longer than the instructions...

Really appreciate the messages and warm welcome in here. I'm not sure what went wrong with the bad brew. It's the only one I've ever used the pressure keg for, so maybe something went wrong there (although I did think I'd done a thorough job of cleaning it). It tasted like a flat cider but...

I'm very particular with my cleaning and sanitising so hopefully should be ok. I have an immersion heater which has a preset temperature of (I think) 24C. It's fits through the same bung as the airlock so all nice and sealed. I've bottled the two that went well and sit the bottles in crates in a...

Hi all, New to the forum - just wanted to say hi! Still fairly new to brewing on the whole, I've just done 5 extract kit beers (first two lovely, third one went down the drain, fourth and fifth currently fermenting - a DIPA and a stout). I may be getting too ambitious, but couldn't find any kits...