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Hi all, I'm pretty much a complete beginner here. I've done a few extract kit brews, and eventually want to move on to something a bit more complicated. But first, the small stuff! The big problem I had with the brews I've done so far is bottling - attempting to syphon just seemed to get beer...

No, the pipe itself (sans bottling wand) is a single, simple rubber tube. I can't see any damaged areas where there might be a hole either.

Yeah that was my thinking - I took the wand off because I suspected it might be air getting in with the connection, but other than that it's a single piece of rubber, and I can't see any damage or evidence of holes.

Nope - I was limited by the length of the hose (especially when I removed the bottling wand from the end), but the FV was sat on the kitchen counter, the bottling was (supposedly, at least) being done on a chair below.

Hi all! So after taking advice with my first brewkit tryout, and leaving it to primary ferment for two weeks rather than the kit's recommended one, today I bottled my first batch. Trouble is, my syphon just wouldn't bloody work in the slightest. No matter what I tried, it just wouldn't budge...

Hi, thanks for the responses! I actually do own a hydrometer, since it's one of the things I looted from someone else's bits of unwanted kit - however I don't have a test jar, so decided to skip that step for the time being. I also have a couple of airlocks, but the kit didn;t come with one...

Hey all! I've helped out friends with brews and stuff over the years (even spent a day in a local microbrewery when a friend wanted to scale up his recipe for his wedding), but this is my first time trying it out on my own now that I actually have space for it. I got my hands on one of these...

Hey all! I've been wanting to get into homebrewing for a while now. A lot of my friends have been doing it for years, and I've just never had the space available, but now I do I thought I'd give it a go. Starting with extract kits and bits of brewkit scavenged from other people's unwanted...