Recent content by Paddyp

Haha cheers for the advice guys, will definitely come back to some of these suggestions when putting on my next brew :) One last thing, any reccomendations of what kit I should try next? Any personal favourites?

Hahah well a week and a half! I might take a couple of bottles just to see. Hopefully the dont explode in the luggage... hahahah :blink:

This first brew was sort of a rush job and I hoped to learn from it anyway, hahah im leaving on a driving holiday in a couple of weeks and this was mainly too see if i could try brew my own beer to take on the trip before I had left. Next time will definitely be a more relaxed exercise seeing as...

Well ingredient wise I all I used was the beer kit, a mangrove jack gold lager that came with the brewing kit, the yeast that came with it and 1 kg of dextrose. I had hoped the fellow at the brew shop might have imparted more knowledge to help me brew but he seemed more intent on making the sale...

Haha thanks for the advice all, I didn't realise the lack of hydrometer could be so potentially dangerous! haha a couple of other questions, If I were to go out now and purchase a hydrometer, would I not be able to tell whether the brew was ready for bottling seeing as I never took an original...

Hi forum, I have recently put on my first brew in a very basic home brew kit bought from my local brew shop. Because I don't have a hydrometer im sort of restricted when it comes to specific gravity measurements so I came up with the idea of doing one or two trial bottles to see how they...