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One week isn't going to kill you! After you have left your beer another week, leave it another two months, and it will be nicer. Add finings once initial fermentation has finished. Defo no need to add any more yeast, that won't achieve anything.

Humble unlearned opinion here, but I always thought fruity beers were low on hops. This shouldn't stop you trying though, good luck.

When you talk about 'highly modified malts', does this apply to liquid malt extract too? I will just be doing extract brews for the time being.

ha! I have just been manically laughing out loud in the office at this. I get your point, I'll try not to kill myself. It was fien if you picked up the lid or toucehd the boiler whilst using a dish cloth, I found. However this is probably not a satisfactory way to go about doingt things. I...

:lol: When cooling, i thought the lid needed to be off to allow DMS, or whatever, to escape? I wonder if I could cover it with muslin, perhaps.

I should confirm that future brews will be proper extract, with fresh Liquid ME being bought in bulk, along with hops and steeping grains.

Hi Sincerely apologies to mods/admins if it is bad etiquette to start two thread concurrently. If you want to just add the text from this thread to my other post, i am fine with that, and apologies for the hassle. Well basically after months of promising i finally give my kit ago with my first...

Hi All Not been on here for a while. Life has been crazy busy. Recently split with the girlfriend, so now have more tiem to make beer. 17 months later than i initially planned, I tried my first extract brew using my granda's old burco (aluminium....) boiler. FIRST QUESTION - How do you stop...

Well, two weeks in and I don't appear to have any of the MLF symptoms :(

hmmm I will have to take a trip to morrisons to find out!

I haev mine in a carboy, so the top is very narrow. Wonder how the pelicle will look? :hmm:

Well the juice i bought wasn't expensive (was probably on soem sort of offerat morrissons) but it certainly implied it was juice from rpessed apples, ratehr than from concentrate. Are there any tell tell signs that the MLF is actually occurring? I added the culture a week ago. It's at a...

Jeepers - still clearing 4 months after main fermentation! Thanks for the suggestions I didn't add pectolase as was happy for it to be cloudy, but don;t want it cloudy due to yeast. I could add isinglass? But I guess I should add the malo lactic culture first, and see what its like once that...

Hi I put ion a TC in September. I wanted to try and make it as good as possible, so rather than the usual apple juice, i bought cartons of cloudy pressed apple juice. Added the usual tannin and malic acid etc. It has been conditioning in a carboy for some time. I was hoping for malo-lactic...

Well I had such a ridiculous supply of beer from ktis and other random bits and bobs that it has done me good jsut to focus on using up the many cartons of juice, bottle of ribena, fruit bought and frozen when reduced to clear, and fruit picked myself and make all the wines that i had been...

Hi You probably don't remember me, but I joined the forum a couple of years ago initially just to find out how to make a kit properly, and then a year ago i was going to start extract brews. I still haven't started with extract... Won't bore you with the excuses but I am almost ready to do it...

I think so. is this isinglass? Same dose for wine as for beer. I think it can get complicated working out the exact does to use in a commercial environment, but for our needs two teaspoons per gallon should do the trick.

I wouldn't bother. Brewferm kits probably best made to instructions. Regarding hops, to add bitterness you need to boil them for an hour +, making hop teas or adding them direct to the brew will not add any bitterness at all.

Carboy.

I don't see how you could have killed yeast, so adding more yeast to each bottle would be a royal waste of time. One of my earlier brews took ages to carb up. I don't know why, but the bottles took, if i remember correctly, about a month. Move them somewhere warm, and see if they have improved...