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Based on my 18 month-ish journey from noob to slightly less of a noob, here's my advice. DON'T: WORRY. Whatever's gone wrong on your brew day, you will probably still get beer. Don't be afraid to leave it in the fermenter for another week. Don't be afraid of all grain. Can you make porridge...

This. Lidl juice also has more tannin than other juices I've tried, I don't bother adding any.

Looks good. I weigh out my hop additions as I go, rather than weigh them all out in advance, so I don't accidentally stick the wrong one in at the wrong time. I've also made the mistake of starting a brew late in the afternoon and not finishing until stupid o'clock.

I've done this, it works well. Didn't notice anything missing from the finished beer. Without some sort of filter you'll clog the siphon.

I've not posted much on this forum, and I've not done an 'introduce yourself' post, but I just want to say thank you for this thread to show how easy it is doing all grain. And it is easy: it's not really any more complicated than extract, it just takes more time. In fact it's less hassle than...

You don't have to rinse in terms of safety, but in terms of flavour, you definitely should rinse. It has a strong TCP type of aroma, which you definitely don't want in your bottles. (Babies either don't mind, or don't know to complain)

Blowout happened to me last night. I just used a syphon (from wilko) and a bottle. The wand part of the syphon fits perfectly in an airlock bung.

Try a cider yeast, I've just done one with the mangrove jack M02 yeast, using brown sugar and honey as fermentables. I've also used wilko gervin yeast in the past , that worked fine (in fact it fermented to dryness). The biggest problems with ginger beer I've found though are lack of body...

Your Apple and raspberry / cranberry are a factor of ten out.