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I’m wondering how to salvage a decent ciderbrew with a vinegar after taste. My latest 28L cider brew fermented slower than usual, OG was 1.065 and virtually halted after 3 weeks at 1.005. I then emptied it into a 2nd container and placed it in cold storage. Atm it has a pleasant enough...

I haven't dry hopped this Cerveza brew (well not that I recall) but I dry hop most every brew kit I do now with about 30 -40 gr. This is the procedure Ï follow. After the brew has stopped fermenting and around 1010 or less, I wait some days then chuck the FV out into the cold for 3 or 4...

It's a plain drink if you just go vanilla, the lime you added won't give it body. I did 2 batches together and ended up using identical recipes, like the way I always end up making the same pizza sauce or the same potato soup even I start out with another intention I added in 650gr of LME...

I like this brew and I like it better than the popular bottled wheat beer (eg from Germany) but of course it is behind good quality craft wheat beer in draught. I used 1.6k kg of LWE plus 950gr of Lyles Golden Sirup, mixed in with the can ingredients. I dried hopped about 33gr of hops used for...

I tried 3 different stout brews, 2 stout kits, Coopers Orig and Coopers Irish along with a Festival porter kit. Festival is already a 2 can kit with some dry hops, and I purchased a dark LME for use with both the Coopers kit, about 800gr of LME with about 600gr fructose into each of the...

I have corrected my post to record that I used a 1/2 can of LME and not the full can, sorry about that misunderstanding. I just got (temporarily) mixed up between kilos and pounds. As regards cost, where I live the lyles sirup costs just a bit more than white sugar, the LME was an out of date...

I tried this kit about 2 months ago and I really did not like it. Maybe I am just too fussy about my stouts. My favourite stout is a creamy Guinness draught, optimally served at proper temp in an Irish pub, after that it would be a pint bottle of (Dublin) Guinness, after that I love various...

I did this kit the other week. I heated up 900gr of lyles golden sirup, along with 800gr of LME (light blonde) and mixed it with the can ingredients, about 22 litres total in the FV. I forget or what the abv was, it fermented at a reasonable rate for 5 or so days, then it took another 7 days...

Using 2 single cans of Cooper's stout kit doesn't double the hoppiness. What's the point of using 2 single cans in a brew instead of a 2 hooped can kit? The others who have done that to their great satisfaction, can answer for themselves. If you are introducing another factor, the financial...

You can't but others can, "should be" is subjective opinion not a definitive rule, otherwise there would be just one beer style fits all;) According to the feedback in the beer kit review threads, there have been a few issues with using 2 cans of Cooper's Bitter kit, because of the hops (Pride...

That makes good sense. I'm not familiar with the 2 can kits, they are not available locally. I was just focussed on the idea of using 2 x single can in a brew and in that scenario you'd have 2 yeast sachets at your disposal.

A sidebar question, with a 2 can ale kit would you use both packs of yeast? And just stir it into FV?

Personally I don't like the Coppers Stout but I'm just very fussy about my stouts, like one might be fussy about speakers. I did find it difficult to use a dark LME with the Coopers Stout kit, re attenuation and the end result was too sweet for my dry stout preferenced taste. As regards to...

When I first visited Dublin as a young boy in the late 1960's, there were 2 powerful smells as you walked across O'Connell bridge, the putrid stench from the River Liffey below and the roasted malty aroma wafting from the Guinness brewery, up river a bit. The first home brew might be regarded...

As mentioned I had 4 types of expired Brewferm LME. The other day the seller advised me to just try the Light Blonde and follow progress. I used a 1.5kg can, this time in conjunction with a Bitter kit in 25 Litres total, along with for the first time, a yeast nutrient and about 500gr dextrose...

I have managed a few different food stores, so basically I lived on stuff that was out of date :) I'm not in the least intimidated by an expiry date, I keep an open mind on such matters and exercise discrimination. If the attenuation issue was down to yeast, that would indeed be peculiar...

4 brews have attenuation issues and you say don't fret? :) I fret with a calm countenance. I would have agreed with you before those 4 brews, after all I did buy them thinking their sugars would be fermentable, but if 4 out of about 20 brews have similar attenuation issues and the main...

I doubt if the barley is the issue, I'm using a variety of expired LME products. The only commonality is the company (reputable) and the expiration. The question is, can attenuation be so affected when using 4 month expired LME?

I'm relatively new to home brewing. I bought about 15 cans of expired Brewferm LME1.5kg (50% discount), various colours. I've added 2 cans to a 2 stout brew kits, and used 5 cans in two extract brews, altogether 4 different brews. All 4 get down to about 1018 and no further. I've managed...