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I haven't had any personal experience with a raspberry cider (although I'm under pressure from The Minister for War and Finance to do one). But I recently did a raspberry beer and encountered some logistical complications that I hadn't considered. You may have strained the raspberries out prior...

I have had two brews left on the yeast cake for "too long". One was 45 days in primary FV, the second 70 days in primary FV. Both brews taste fine to my palate. I'm sure that there are reasons for NOT leaving it on the yeast cake so long (infection risks aside); From my experience it may have...

Hi SnakeRider I'm a brew-noob, like yourself. Maybe a half dozen brews ahead of you. The only temp control I have is an eski with frozen water bottles that get changed twice a day. I only use this for fermentation and conditioning of the FV, as I couldn't fit the FV and thirty odd bottles in...

"The difference between 'messing around' and 'science' is taking detailed notes" -Mythbusters ......dunno which one....probably the Ranga

I should also point out that, being my first time at taking specific gravity readings, the hydrometer had not been calibrated (it's one of the Cooper's all plastic ones, with a bit of red plastic at the top that you're supposed to cut off to calibrate it properly), and the readings were done...

Oh, and I used the kit yeast. Brew was fermented at room temps, during summer in a first floor apartment, sitting in a tub of water with a wet towel and fan directed at it on the hot days. I committed the cardinal sin and followed the directions on the can....

OG 1.023 FG 0.998 I don't have much in the way of notes for this brew, as it was my first brew and I'm lucky that I remembered to write down the OG and FG! I wouldn't be surprised if the kit had aspartame or something either. I think next time I'll use a mix of maltodextrine, dex and maybe...

MMM! Ginger beer enema! How refreshing. My last one was literally just the Coopers GB kit, a kilo of raw sugar and 200g fresh ginger and I kept feeling like it was TOO sweet. Hence why I was interested in attempts to dry it out. I might explore some yeast options....

Just in the interest of clarity, how dry would you say it is? Chardonnay dry?? I want to alter my next GB so that it is more dry than the previous batch, so I'm hoping to capitalise on your experimentation (is that morally wrong?? I promise that my lurking is not connected to some sort of...

Yeah, that was the post that had me concerned. I was hoping there was a simple nut-and-o-ring solution, but if wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak. I'll have a crack at it and see how I go. Good thing the sprayers only cost $10! Thanks for the heads up Seamad!

This is a fantastic guide! I'm about to venture out to get a couple of sprayers today and plan on getting the other bits tomorrow. I'm wanting to use them as a small, cheap alternative to 9L cornies (at least until I can save up my pocket money!). I don't have the space for a Keggerator just...

Fortunately I was away for two and a half weeks of it, so the impact was lessened. However, I still have the three week wait for carbonation.....damnnit

Pretty much! Although if the ferment has stalled then you're still in trouble. And the beer was crystal clear, which is a difficult thing for me to achieve without finnings or clearing agents considering I can't REALLY cold crash. Even after jostling the FV there wasn't any crap floating...

Yeah, I rinse the bottles (three times each....the magic number) after using the cleaner and tipped out the last 5mm of sanitiser before putting beer in. I attach a length of hose (I think it's about 600mm in length) attached to the tap and the bottling wand attached to the end of the tube...

Yeah, sorry guys. I lurk around here enough to know better.... Ingredients: 1.7kg Blackrock Nut Brown Ale 1.5kg Blackrock Dark LME 400g Dark Brown Sugar 15g Fuggles 15g Goldings S04 Yeast Boiled 657g LME in 5L water for 30min and added hops (do you need the full schedule??) Added rest of...

Cleaned the bottles with 'brewclean' stuff and good hard scrubbing with bottle brush. Sanitised with a no-rinse sanitiser (hydorgen peroxide solution). Bottle primed with carb drops. My prime suspects are: the beer was pretty naturally fizzy when I did a hydro reading; in the process of...

Hello all, I bottled a nut brown ale last night and there was a significant amount of foam developing as I was bottling. It was enough to leave more head space in the bottle than normal (about 1.5 times the head space I would typically get from an un-foamy beer bottling). I'm figuring that it...

Incidentally, almost all light sources output UV radiation in some degree. Whether it's a candle, a fluro, an old tungsten filament globe or halogen light. While you can get LED lights that specifically output UV in a fashion similar to 'blacklight' lamps, I'm not sure whether LEDs that are set...

+1 for eski with frozen bottles of water. I have a min/max thermometer in the eski as well and have noticed something like a 4-5 degree C variance on hot days, but I'd have to check my notes to be more specific (that's 4-5 degree C variance of the ambient temps in the ESKI, not the temps of the...

There's some very interesting ideas here. I've done one kit ginger beer and have one planned for later in the year and the dryness was something I wanted to address. Please do post your results! (and maybe a graph of it too....because life is better with graphs....)