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I picked up one of those Young's harvest Pilsners for £2.74 in November. I've just put it on with 1kg of extra light spraymalt and 500g brewing sugar. I used Saflager S-23 yeast. My plan is to try to recreate a temperature profile for lager using only the ambient temperatures around my house. I...

Had a fun day of experimenting yesterday. Thought I'd try my hand at a TurboCider, so put 4l of aldi apple juice into a dj with 1tsp each of nutrient, pectolase and tannin. Then rehydrated and added a young's ale yeast I had lying around. Going to add a litre of 'youngberry' juice I got from tk...

So for my last kit (St Peter's Golden Ale), I bought some S-04 yeast as I wanted a good floculator - sick of wasting beer due to floaty yeast packs. At £2.50 a pop, I wanted to try to get more than one use out of it, so having read a few threads on here, I 'dirty' harvested the trub by swirling...

We were given a carrier bag full of apples from the in-laws and they're not eaters and there's too many to cook with, so I was thinking of trying to make cider. But this will be a micro, tiny, wee batch. So I don't want to buy any new equipment. Was thinking of scratting them in the kitchen...

Just bottled this kit. It came highly recommended by my LHBS, and as it's from an independent company near me, I thought I'd give it a go. Wanted a nice, dark, soothing stout for autumn and winter; we'll have to see if this fits the bill. It's a two-can kit, added the cans to the FV then added...

I put a Brupaks Irish Moor Stout kit on last night. Everything seemed to be fine. Rehydrated the yeast in boiled, cooled water (as instructed), stirred the wort vigourously to introduce oxygen. As of now, nothing has happened. I had a look this morning and there's no activity on the surface of...

So, this being one of my favourite brews in my home city, I was keen to recreate it via kit-form. Not sure you see the kit that often nowadays, but I got mine off the internet. Unusually (in my experience), it was a one-can kit with a bag of spray malt. I discussed this with the owner of my LHBS...

Hello there! Been enjoying following the forums for a few weeks, so thought I should introduce myself. I re-started kit brewing in January after a hiatus of many years - so far have found the kits to have drastically improved since I was a lad. So far have done a Norfolk Nog, St Peter's IPA...

Hello there. First time poster; please be gentle! I've been brewing from kits successfully for a few months now and started a Yorkshire Terrier kit last week. The instructions say to aerate the wort daily during fermentation, by stirring. I've never stirred any of the other kits I've done once...