Recent content by kuba

Cheers, was just curious if something went wrong or not. Ill see how this batch goes but i can see myself making more GB more often.

Hi, well as the title states i put down my 1st ginger beer last week (09/08). It had no krausen or whatever for the first 2 days but the S.G was going down so knew it was cranking. Then after that it turned to a volcano as you can see in the pictures, is this normal?? Tastes alright except...

"Did you get much krausen and what was your theory behind fermenting it @ 16 degrees? " I do have a substantial layer of krausen, and the theory for 16C was because it says for 15-22C and im using frozen pet bottles and figured if i aim for 16 its gonna usually end up higher. Im thinking ill...

cheers hopefully the brew will drop some opints in the next couple days

Firstly ive only ever previously done just kits + white sugar and this is the 1st time with hops, malt or even dextrose. Yeah tasted it, tastes bloody great could drink it as is. Strange thing is im used to seeing the airlock bubbling, whereas with this batch ive never seen it do a bloody...

stirring the shit out of it may be a bit of an exaggeration, but i stirred it quite well and scraped the bottom to kick up the sediment. Ive had it fermenting since the 4th but when i pitched it, i put it in my fermenting fridge, BUT turned it on and FORGOT to turn it off so the next morning...

Hi, iv currently got a James squire amber ale in the fermenter (Muntons Premium blonde, 1.5kg black rock liquid amber ale, US-56, cluster hops and 220g dextrose (21L)). Just a couple questions it seems to have stopped at 1020, is this still too high? the instructions say it should be 1010-1012...

Is there anything i can do with the old yeast? i think i remember reading to boil it in the wort and then it becomes nutrition for the pitching yeast?? I have my fermenter in the fridge atm trying to get the temp down to 24C so i can pitch the yeast. Ive had it ln the fridge for about 2hrs now...

thanks all the info i needed, now i just gotta get temp control in order as we got a week of mid 30's here in perth and really wanna put some batches down 1st time ill be using hops and excited

Hi i just acquired several kits which have best before date ranging from 2008 - 2010. Will these still be alright? One of the kits is the brewcraft premium kit which has yeast, hops and malt all bb date 2008, would the yeast,hops or the malt be screwed? Just wondering as id like to use em and...

Hi im new to this site and have only done a handfuls of kit homebrews. Ive just done this coopers kit (pale ale) and am drinking it atm. I like my beers bitter and my homebrews have never tasted bitter enough but are always slightly sweet (except once it was sour where i knew i stuffed up). I...