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Just for completeness sake, I made the assumption it was an infection and decided to take only what was on the bottom of the barrel and left the top 3-5 litres of whatever that stuff was. I've bottled them up, and put them under a towel in a safe spot just in case - Fingers crossed it'll turn...

Hey guys, I've had a kit ginger beer in the fermenter since 3/1/14, I generally let Ginger Beer go a little longer to make sure it's completely fermented out and to avoid bottle bombs. I took it off the yeast cake about a week or so ago. I had "dry hopped" birds eye chilly (after soaking them...

You're right, after having a look through the Amazon "Look Inside" it looks to have metric conversions here and there (though not completely, it's still a start) http://www.amazon.com/How-Brew-Everything-Right-First/dp/0937381888

I've recently stared AGB and to fill my gaps I've been reading over http://www.howtobrew.com/ but I'm beginning to find it a little frustrating that the measurements are all in the imperial scale - along with that all of the formulae are following the imperial scale, not impossible to convert...

The beer is no longer actively fermenting as far as I can see, there is no activity from the airlock and gravity is not dropping. Ok thanks guys, I'll leave it as is for another week and let the yeast drop from the top to clear up. Great advice, cheers! :D

I'm making up a brown ale which has been in primary for two weeks now - I might let it go another week or more though I've come to open the fermenter today and noticed this brown gunk floating to the top. The yeast I used is US-05 incase that has anything to do with it as I've read some yeasts...

Interesting, so the difference could be more technical than that of taste? I'm really asking because I recently re-read an IPA recipe I cooked up on Sunday and I thought that I was to dry hop the brew, where instead I was supposed to boil and throw hops in for a few mins for a late hop. I was...

Ok so I'm wondering what the difference between flavour between "Flameout" hopper and "Dry Hopping" For example I was to: 1) Bring a wort to a boil, then throw in some hops and boil for ~2 mins. After that then put the wort into a fermenter and cool it down to pitch OR 2) Have a brew...

Ok sure, so the basic thing I'm worried about is weather or not the hop-bag will make my brew bitter as f@#$ if I don't take it out soon - From what I'm hearing it'll be fine to leave it in until I need to bottle?

Hi, I got wind of this recipe for Wassa's Honey Porter using cascade chocolate porter. So I went and bought one of those Morgans Cascade hops tea-bags, the thing is that I don't think I've hopped it correctly, because I've never hopped anything from a tea-bag before. I just followed the...

@NuggesSA - I bought a bottle of "Starsan" almost immediately after it was mentioned above, after doing some research it looks like a piece of kit I can't live without and a bottle of the stuff will last forever, I'll use that for sanitising and sodium percarbonate "napisan" for cleaning...

Ok this is sounding a little better, I'll follow along with these options: I can do that, currently I'm leaving in the brew at 3 weeks in primary, then directly out the tap using the bottling wand. This may come sometime in the future, but not any time soon. I have no idea what that is, I'm all...

You've made a very good point, and sure I'm totally up for trying out different yeasts - though I don't know where to start as the choice is massive! (Liquid, packet, otherwise)? Also that still dosen't solve the problem of reusing the yeast, if I'm getting the good stuff I'll need to reuse it...

Hey guys thanks for the answers. @carniebrew - That was a great answer really helping me make do with what I've got, no need to go out and buy a ton of new equipment, just a good straightforward method. I've ordered a bottle of starsan and will be getting a bottle tree, rinser soon also. @Rowy...

Unfortunately for the time being I won't be getting a fridge, it's just not on the cards yet. My question to everyone is when bottling, does everyone simply put their beer in a primary, then put it in the fridge, and then bottle with the "filling wand"? No syphoning? Yes, I had a feeling that...

This does sound like good advice, and I've definitely heard this solution before (particularly when I was looking up how to make cider) but I don't think I've got the space for this currently. Also to clarify, how do you get from the Fermenter to the bottles to avoid yeast sediment? Are you...

n00b brewer here, I've decided to move from plastic bottles to 330ml glass bottles, I've tried doing glass partially for the last 2 brews and things turned out fine with them so I'm ready to take glass on fully. So what I've got a problem with currently: My bottling process takes FOREVER, I...

Hi Guys, Reason why I'm posting is because I've made about 4 kit brews so far and I'm still only using a primary fermenter, and then going from there directly into the bottles. The tastes are ok, but have a very consistent yeasty flavour (and sludge at the bottom of the bottles) so I'm wanting...