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Wherry is a solid kit. I find it best to brew to 21 litres. It's cheap enough aswell £19 in wilko, often on offer for £14.

I used one heap teaspoon per bottle of turbo cider and it was carbonated perfectly

Hi there. You couldn't add finishing hops to it no, but what you're suggesting is called dry hopping. It won't taste anything like a beer to be honest, and is very unlikely to be close to drinkable. I think even in prison they use fruit juices as well as a lot of sugar, so even the most needy...

Nope. It's fine. You can syphon it into the FV off any break material if you wanted. I don't bother, just slosh it all in and get as much oxygen in there as possible. If anything, it may be a little more susceptible to chill haze, but who cares? Just take it out of the fridge for half an hour...

Had you considered using a no chill cube rather than a wort chiller? (just a 25l water container often used for caravaning etc..) If you transfer the boiling wort into the cube, then squish between you knees until the wort is about to trickle over the top and then put the lid on, this gets...

This is technically theft, so ignore it if you have morals... I bought a barrel off ebay from someone for a fiver. You could tell it had been stored in a garage for years, although clean, it was yellowed, the seals probably needed replacing and the tap handle was snapped. It was a youngs...

There's some really helpful pointers in the photos section of this site by the way. ;)

Yes i'm sure you can. I'm pretty sure I watched a tutorial on youtube a while ago which only used dme. I haven't done it myself because I went straight to biab after a couple of kits. Have you consider this route? If you already have a pot big enough for extract brewing, you could quite likely...

I had one that was bubbling after 3 weeks. I bottled anyway as the gravity was 1.002 some how. It was really nice anyway, all be it a little low bodied.

Hi there. Good luck with you first homebrew. You don't need to transfer into the barrel straight after fermentation has finished. If you leave it for a little longer, the yeasties will start to clean up after themselves. I always leave mine for 2 weeks before transferring. Try and be as patient...

Not sure on exact recipe, but i have similar leftovers, and was going to do a "north england brown ale" with mo, crystal and choc. Hopping with challenger and ekg. Ive got an app called brewr and will just adjust recipe to meet that particular style.

Its very straight forward. You need to wire up a temperature controller called an stc 1000, and mount a heater inside the fridge. You'd then plug the heater into the heat outlet of your temp controller and the fridge itself to the cool outlet. Set your desire temp and it turns on the relevent...

If you can get your hands on a cheap or free fridge, that would be a good option

You can get a temp controller from homebrewbuilder.co.uk for £77.50. You would just need to mount a tube heater (£15 from toolstation for a 60w one) in the bottom of the fridge. Then just plug the heater into the heat outlet of the controller and the fridge itself into the cool. Admittedly I...

Fingers crossed. Hope it all goes well.

Tricky, I can see why you're concerned. I'd imagine to put your fg 6 points higher than expected, you'd need to have really overshot the mark. Personally, I don't really have anywhere to carb beers that would be safe if they went off, so I'd be pitching a pack of us05 or some other clean...

Yes I understand what you mean. My point being Steinhausser will not be dry hopped. I'm not sure dry hopping a kit beer will get you closer to that style, although the correct yeast, a cold fermentation temperature and cold storage period probably would. AG is really not that hard. I only...

I'm sorry I don't know which yeast the Muntons one uses, but if you were looking for a clean, crisp, european style lager, I believe Coopers European lager comes with a proper lager yeast. If you are able to sit your fv in a water bath with a few alternating ice packs to keep it around 12c, I...

In the barrel it only needs to be warm enough to carbonate. At this time of year you certainly shouldn't need any heating source.

That seems very high. What was your grain bill for the brew?