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I just tasted the first bottle of my most recent batch. It was a mangrove jack pear kit with 6.25L of pear juice, 6L apple juice, 500g sugar and US-05. Would have to look it up but it came to around 7.2%. And I did add the pear flavouring I jumped the gun as this batch is only about 2 weeks...

Hi and welcome, Good idea to always play it safe. I don't use carb drops but have seen and heard that one should be plenty for a 500ml bottle. If you are really worried about under carbing it you could try adding a small amount of sugar as well, but that is like playing with fire. It's not...

Hi all, With my empties starting to pile up and a spare fermenter I'm looking at a new brew. My lhbs just got in a new batch of ndbrewing fresh wort kits and I saw this "Celtic Red Ale - A malt driven full bodied beer, moderately hopped, with a brilliant rust red colour. " If anyone has...

Hi, I'm not sure what you mean by sweetness but in my experience homebrew gb is not normally very sweet unless you make it so. I would not use the champagne yeast it could be better used in a cider or something, I normally use us-05. I use raw sugar and am thinking about using brown for my...

Sorry, should probably have been clearer. I was saying it doesn't need 8 weeks. If you are using a hydrometer you can bottle as soon as the brew has stopped fermenting. I was confused as a new brewer as I was getting 2 types of instructions, either it was brew and bottle then leave for a long...

Just to be clear, racking into secondary is not necessary. And you also only need to keep it in the fermenter until it has stopped.(use the hydrometer) however I do advise leaving it a few extra days for the yeast to settle. Now before everyone argues about whether or not this will make a...

Hi all, not sure how many people have seen this but I wanna know what people think. http://www.gizmag.com/grow-your-own-beer-garden-kit/15293/ IMO you're not going to get a lot out of it if you grow all but you could probably grow any hops you want in a reasonable quantity.

As for steam cleaning, I'm pretty sure the coopers kit is just a 25l bucket so not sure if it world melt but my advice would be to just buy a better fermenter and use the current one for ciders and gb. My lhbs sells the copper tun brand ones for 45 bucks. As for branding on the pink powder I...

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@BeardedWonder What are you using to clean your fermenter? I find I get the same thing after gb brews. My fix for this is to put about 5 litres of hot water in it(not boiling but should be making decent steam) add enough cleaning product for the water and put the lid on. Cover the air hole...

I am currently bottling into 750ml pet but I'm building up a collection of glass, I've got around 15 grolsch swing tops and 15 or so 500ml rekorderlig bottles which are great. Too bad rekorderlig is so expensive, I've got to talk to the guy up the pub and see if he will save the bottles for me.

If you are a fan of pear cider, mangrove jacks British series pear cider kit. It is a bit more expensive than other kits but it is worth it IMO. I bottled a brew a few weeks back( there's a thread somewhere) with some apple juice in it and tasted the first bottle a few days ago. ROUGH, definatly...

Hi all, I have a question. I am looking at brewing a wheat beer with the following recipe: Morgan's golden sheaf wheat kit 1.1kg light dry malt extract 200g dex 200g lactose US-05 yeast Reason being I have a mix bag with 600g ldme,200g dex, 200g lactose, that I need to use and a 500g bag of...

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Hi all, Just bottled my GB and I'm thinking cider is up next. I don't mind a drier cider but I would prefer something a bit sweeter I have an apple and a pear kit and I was wondering if anyone has done a half half brew with the kits. I could just use half of each then whack the rest in the...