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It was a Festival Golden Stag kit. I used Tesco Ashbeck water, Ritchies steriliser and used the Inkbird to keep the FV at 22.5 degrees C. OG 1037, bottled after 11 days at SG 1008. Bottles also kept at 22.5 dC for two weeks. I would have had a taste of the beer at bottling but didn't note any...

Ah yeah, proper fermenting bins.

I always use bottled water coz the water round here is the hardest in the country and often smells of chlorine. I get the cheapest bottled water though...

Ha ha - yeah. I was right hacked off coz as well as the new bin I was using a new Inkbird temp controller, calibrated and set to the temp stated in the kit instructions. The steriliser was Ritchies but I only recently switched from VWP. It's various different kits.

So I kept getting a nasty plasticy after-taste to my brews and I figured it was probably the bin - it was old and a bit scratched. I bought new bins and cleaned and sterilised them and did an expensive kit. And guess what - the brew has a nasty plasticy after-taste to it. It reminds me of the...

Ah, maybe I'm being a bit over-enthusiastic!! The kit instruction for barreling say to keep the barrel between 20 to 25 degrees so I figured that the same would be ideal for the bottles... well, I guess it can't hurt...

So I'm dead chuffed with my new set-up for keeping my bottles at the right temperature for secondary and I thought I'd share that and see what others do. I bought an Inkbird ITC-308 temperature controller which worked brilliantly with a brew-belt on the bin but wasn't sure how to use it with...

I now have a bench vice sitting on two 1cm-thick bits of hardboard spreading the load round the lid edge...

Why the hell didn't I think of that!!?? Cheers Brewed_Force!!

From a physics perspective you're dead right. From a legal perspective the Sale of Goods Act is very clear - products must be fit for the purpose for which they were sold. So whatever pressure it takes to bubble an airlock is the minimum pressure the bin should hold.

The first one was a single and I replaced that with a six-bubble when it filled up with foam. It was the six-bubble that had a really bad seam down the stem so I cleaned the single up and put that back in (1/4 of a Cambden tablet in the water each time and just enough water to give a good...

Just dropped the hops in and took the opportunity to take a gravity reading - 1.014. So it's gone down 0.003 in two days... and smells and tastes good too... so I guess it's all looking good. Wont be using an airlock on a bin again though!

Oh yeah, if I put a little pressure on the lid the air lock water shifts around. So what I just tried just now is I placed an empty bottle on the lid - constant pressure. The water shifted round and then began to shift back!!! So yes, the CO2 is basically hissing out of either the grommet or...

Cheers guys, On the schedule for adding the hop pellets, I'm just following the kit instructions... happy to diverge from them though if there's a better way... Must read up on dry hopping - no idea about that. The kit comes with the hops pressed into pellets which you just drop directly...

On Saturday I made up a batch of Festival Golden Stag. I put the yeast in a small sterilised bottle with some water and sugar while the wort cooled and it started working nicely. I pitched it in when the wort was at about 26 degrees (yeah, I know, I should have waited a bit longer). The...