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Definitely not as much head as I would have expected, I think I will just wait another week or so then crack another, then depending on taste either drink them all or wait and repeat. ;) Lesson learnt though, keep it cool...

Huh, thick and fast with the replies, thanks all.. I've read enough to know that a) the kit instructions leave a lot to be desired and B) that they list temps way to high. I was hoping I could make something semi decent before I refined my setup a bit with a fermenting fridge though. I guess...

Cheers for the reply, I'm not sure if that could be the whole issue. When bottling it had no sweet or fruity flavor, but now it is so sweet. I mean almost molasses level of sweetness. The wide range of temps I gave were absolute max. and min. as well, likely 90% of the time it was 24 / 25 deg...

A bit more than 3 weeks ago I put on my first brew, a coopers larger kit + kilo of brewing sugar (underlid yeast). It spent a week in the fermenter between 23 deg. C and 27 deg. C, specific gravity dropped from 1042 to 1010. SG was steady over 2 days at 1010 so I bottled it in 740ml PET bottles...

Cheers Rob, Looks like a pretty sophisticated setup you have there :D The more I look at it the more I like the idea of an Arduino board or similar to give me more control over whatever I decide to add to the system in the future. Thats given me a bit to think about, thanks for all the info...

Cheers randyrob, looks like your setup deals with a little more than temp sensing ( switching heater / cooler on/off to attain target temp). Is that running over a serial port or other? Is that using software you cobbled together yourself or something ready made for this kind of thing?

Thanks for the replies, DrSmurto, I will have to have a hunt around some local 2nd hand stores / trading posts and see if I can find something ideal. Tinkering with a temp sensor setup for remote monitoring is something I will enjoy almost as much as brewing the beer itself, even if the end...

I am new to homebrewing (not homebrew drinking) having just bought an off the shelf coopers beer kit. My second concern (with the first being the dodgy/generic yeast, sugar, etc and instructions it comes with, but I can work most of that out with some reading and careful buying for future...