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I made a brew based on the same recipe. I used: 1.7kg Coopers Preachers Hefe Wheat beer 1.2kg Coopers wheat LME Mangrove Jacks Munich M20 yeast fermented around 24C (Coopers themselves advise to replace the kit yeast with a Munich yeast.) Brewed short to 21 litres Bottled at 3.8 vols ABV approx...

Does anyone use Chemsan with Ashbeck water from Tesco? It goes cloudy with my tap water so as suggested on the bottle I've tried bottled mineral water (Ashbeck) and again it has gone slightly cloudy. I was hoping using the bottled water would allow me to mix some and keep it stored for a week or...

Perfect. I'll just leave it as it is and keep an eye to make sure it doesn't evaporate too much

I've rigged a blow out tube on a kit I'm brewing, the tube is going into a wine bottle with a little Chemsan in the bottom. Overnight some krausen come through the tube and into the bottle. There's still plenty of airspace left in the bottle and the krausen seems to have calmed down so I don't...

Any chance you could post the recipe? This sounds tempting, but also tempted to split the kit and get some cocoa nibs in one half

Lovebrewing have Tinsel Toes in stock athumb.. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread over the next few days before deciding what Winter ale I'll go for

I used the same MJ yeast for a Hefeweizen kit and noticed how fermentation slowed down but carried on creeping down little by little. After 13 days it had gone from 1.044 to 1.014 and eventually finished at 1.010 after 19 days. I fermented mine a little higher at 24°C. I know your brew is all...

Yeah I definitely won't open it until I'm brewing, I brewed another one of their kits earlier this week so know they can't be resealed. It was more in terms of the kit as a whole, especially if I buy some in the future that won't get brewed for a month or two.

I have a Mangrove Jack's pouch that comes with hops and yeast inside but I'm not planning on brewing it for a couple of weeks. The pouch says just to store it in a cool dry place and out of sunlight, but wouldn't it be best to keep the hops and yeast in the fridge? Would it be an issue storing...

I went for the boiled water but cooled to about 50°C and used a whisk to mix in the DME, worked a treat. Cheers guys athumb..

Cheers. Think I'll seal the bottles up for now then. Reckon I'll need to wash them at all before bottling or will it be fine with some Chemsan on bottling day?

I've just cleaned a batch of bottles and before I store them would I be OK to put a couple of squirts of Chemsan in each bottle? They are PET bottles so screw on lids and they'd be stored until my next bottling session in 2-3 weeks. My Chemsan does have a tendency to go cloudy after a day but my...

I've gone for the options above of 500g DME plus 500g dextrose and hopefully making one of the kits tomorrow. Has anyone got any tips on the best way to dissolve DME? I've read of people having issues with it clumping, from what I understand the yeast will stil eat it up but it won't give me...

I've realised I neglected to update this thread as to how it progressed after conditioning. It finished fermenting at 1.010 so an ABV of 4.5% and now it's been almost two months since it's been bottled. The banana has definitely come to the fore since being bottled so my wife is very happy with...

It's the Pink Grapefruit IPA & Pils kit's I'm looking at. Going by your post I reckon I'd go for 500g light DME for the IPA, 500g extra light for the Pils and then add 500g dextrose to each. Thanks for the help guys