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Thanks for the responses. I didn't think to use a hydrometer - D'oh! I assumed that it wasn't fermenting as there were no tell-tale bubbles rising to the surface. I'll check with a hydrometer tonight when I get back home.

Help! I've made up a brew - ginger beer from actual ingredients. OG 1050-ish. I added some champagne yeast and 4 days later nothing is happening. So I mixed up an old ale yeast starter - it was definitely working and pitched that in. 4 days later still nothing. It's been in a warm place all...

This sounds interesting. What are you going to call it?

Well, the ginger beer was not a success. :( It's drinkable but has a harsh bitterness to the taste which is off-putting. I shall have to go back to the drawing board. Ho hum!

Over the last 5 years I have moved house twice and I didn't brew anything in the last place I was. Yesterday I was poking about in some boxes I'd just stuffed under the stairs when I moved in to where I am now and I discovered an old kit - Yorkshire bitter - 2 tins of pale malt extract, a bag of...

"Having a go"? It never occurred to me. In the past when I've tried making cider, it has always fermented out to be mouth-squinchingly dry and I wanted to avoid that if I could.

The Half Spoon stuff is made by Tate & Lyle. I use it in tea and coffee. It tastes fine - much better than Hermesetas or straight saccharin, both of which leave a funny aftertaste. According to the packet Half Spoon is: "Sugar with sweeteners Aspartamane and Acesulfamane-K based table top...

Hi folks, just to let you know that I have bottled my own recipe ginger beer today (17 Sep 2012). The first fermentation from 6th-10th September produced a dirty brown, cloudy murk that tasted rather awful. I racked it off into 3 demijohns and added some more sugar and left it alone until...

Hi there, I'm returning to brewing after a hiatus of about 4 years and two house moves. Just this afternoon I have dug out my bucket, camden tablets, long spoon and have started an alcoholic ginger beer brew. If it is successful I'll add the recipe.