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G'day peeps! I'm brewing Sergeant's Stout - an 'own brand' kit from the Home Brew shop. I started it on 26 May. It had a very lively initial fermentation and after a few days settled into a steady rhythm which is still going after 3.5 weeks. Albeit somewhat more slowly. Now, I have't done a...

I arrived home the other night to find my red wine erupting through the airlock. It's in a 30ltr bucket filled to 22.5, so that's a heck of a lot foam!! It's fermenting at 21 deg C, less than the kit says (25-30 deg). Luckily the mess had stayed on the lid but, to my surprise, it was the...

I'm doing a Magnum medium dry white. It's in the secondary bucket for six days now, post degassing and fining and, in theory, ready to bottle. However, when I shine a torch through the bucket I can see fine particles in suspension, and particles (or possibly) bubbles on the side of the...

I'm a newbie and, having recently cleared my FV's of cider, I'm going to try a beer kit following the advice in the sticky thread (http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=57526). I live in a particularly hard water area, so I'm going to used bottled water. Is there any particular...

Hi Folks, I'm a total newbie and I pressed 60 litres of apple juice last week. But I'm unsure what to do now. I wrote out a long post, but actually it comes down to a few questions, for which I'm struggling to find definitive answers, and to sort out some confusing and contradictory advice...