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This kit does not require the adding of sugar, I added the spray malt to give it a better body. Everything went in at the start, and I used fresh ground beans from my grinder. Just make sure not to use boiling water to make up the coffee.

Normally a Coopers stout person, but thought I would try a different one. Followed instructions with these additions. Added 100g ground coffee brewed with 2 L of very hot but not boiling water. Added 500g light spray malt Fermented @ 20L with S-04 yeast @ 18C for 14 days Bottle carbonated with...

Freeze the fruit first, then thaw out, it breaks down the fibre and creates more raspberry taste.

What causes a homebrew Pilsner kit to be chill hazed. It was fermented as per instructions, racked and dry hopped as per instructions Carbonated for 14 days @ the same fermentation temp, clear enough to read newspaper through it Placed in storage @ 8C for 1 month Decided to sample it last...

Welcome fellow dumpling, nice to see someone local has joined.

Surely if you do it like this, the belts are working against the fridge setting, example: the fermenter sensor turns on the belt, the fridge sensor then detects a rise in temp and turns the fridge on, and it goes on and on in a circle of wasted energy. I too don't use a fan, but my shelves are...

Gas is a far more efficient means of heating than electric. Electric is by far the more accurate if used with a controller. Do the mash with electric & the boil by gas

I may be wrong, but floc tabs are normally added to the last 10 minutes of the boil.

No one sells liquid yeasts near me, the cost of P&P totally excludes me using it.

I've just made up a St Peters Cream Stout kit + 500g of light spraymalt. The first thing I noticed was the kit yeast is only a 6g sachet. In my experience 6g is not enough yeast to ferment 20 litres of wort @ 1.052 properly. To make sure I didn't get a stuck fermentation I substituted it for a...

Use the MRmalty calculator, about 7 grams should be right for an imperial http://mrmalty.com/calc/calc.html

I fitted a thermo well in my fermenter that took the temp probe, problem sorted, no more quick changes in fridge temps.

Thanks Oneiroi, your answer has explained what I wanted to know.

If I boil 25g of hops with an AA of 10 in 5 litres of water for 60 minutes, would this be twice as bitter than if I had used 10 litres of water, or put another way, does a certain amount of hops boiled for 60 minutes half its bitterness every time you double the liquid content.

Beerworks Chinook IPA from love Brewing.

OK guys, quite a few comments. Time is on my side as it's 3 months on. I have a brew fridge so it does matter the style of beer, just so long as it tastes good. Thanks hichaechoc, I'd forgotten about Woodfordes, I love wherry, you may have the answer there.

What's the best kit beer straight out of the can or pouch without having to make it better. Just need to make up a beer that most would enjoy for a party.

I went ahead and made an IPA with just DME and a 30 minute boil with hops. It came out at 1.060 with an IBU of 50, so I pitched an S-05 yeast and it's in the brew fridge at 20C for the next 3 weeks before dry hopping it with more cascade. The big difference in my brewday was how little time it...

I think it means it's a hopped LME

I have a small all grain system which only makes 11 litres of wort at a time. I would like to make a 40 pint brew, one all grain and one extract both brewing at the same time instead of doing it twice with the all grain, then blending together in one fermenter. I have enough equipment to run 2...