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Woohoooo.....750ml Coopers bottles here I come!!! I might have a load of 375ml to give away soon :)

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How long has it been brewing? Is it in its first week at the moment? I am thinking 2 weeks fermenting, 2 weeks chilled (eg 2-4degC). Do you have a normal fridge that you can whack the fermenter into? This will keep it A-OK! :) (such an 80's saying...).....& make sure to check if fermentation...

sucks bad! What temp controller do u have? rendo

WOW...HOLY ****! Out of curiousity, what yeast did you use? How much yeast or how big was the starter? What were your ingredients and OG? "Leon's Vesuvius Ale" Rendo

Guys.....just my $0.05...made a FWK and cracked open the first bottle tonight. Brewers selection, Norwest Pale Ale. GREAT BEER... However its no better than my partials or kits & bits. In fact some of my partial and kits/bits are better, IMO. Either way, I think we all understand that making...

That'd be sweet!! Please do Spills and TB!! Rendo

Sweet.....dont forget to report back and let us all know Pok! I'll drink it if you dont!

Argon, you are spot on. Here is an example. I have just cracked the first bottle of the first FWK (fresh wort kit) that I have ever done. It was a "Norwest Pale Ale". I was expecting big things as its the first "full AG" i have ever done, I just didnt make it :) but simply fermented it. Anyway...

Sounds MARVELLOUS Pok....GO TEAM HALLERTAU!! Maybe even change the dry hop to 5g of hallertau and 15g amarillo....either way, its just your personal choice of flavour rendo

FRESH is best....by a long shot....dont use any old stuff. I'd much rather get hopped malt than old unhopped malt...anyday....no brainer... well done!

Um dum makka pang in angg ooo, makka pakka, akka yakka, mikka makka mooo (yes I have kids) at most a rounded 5ml teaspoon a funnel helps.... bulk priming is good....so is pseudo bulk priming. Pseudo Bulk Priming Also, get yourself a set of small scales...these are good, i have these exact...

FIGHT....FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!! I've tagged this topic, will be watching with interest rendo

Pok, All too easy...going to be a reasonable beer for sure post back here once its drinking and let us know what you did and the verdict mate! Cheers Rendo

I would have taken them all for sure, that is IF we werent 1000 odd km away from each other! At least the glass ones anyway. The green bottles sounded great for my lagers and the coopers would be spot on for case swaps which I hope to start getting into next year rendo

LOVE YOUR EXPERIMENTS BRIBIEG....why am I shouting? :) maybe those yeasties might brew some sh!t up in your drains and clean em up???

Thanks for posting your results Boondy, great to hear it wasnt a disaster. I bet your next brew is going to be about a billion times better....you sound like you have shaken the rust off your brew shoes! Rendo

Polk, Kelby has nailed it! Dont boil the kit, no need. Just get 5L and boil 500g of LDME in it. Then start your hop schedule from when it reaches boiling pt. I always have some (15L-20L @ ~12degC) chilled filtered water (brita jug) in a 20L willow cube that I popped in the fermenter fridge the...

Yeah, so true....I was trying to stay away from the whole side of water chemistry. I prob shouldnt have mentioned "PURE" water...but yeah, for all the new guys, there is a whole science behing the water chemistry/composition for differening styles of beer. Google and AHB google will give u a lot...

For sure, carapils is great, I find that using carapils(about 100g - 300g) , along with 500g-1000g of LDME and 300-400g of wheat malt powder gives a great head that lasts the whole glass...depending on so many other factors too of course.....