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Sorry I can't add any advice mate but interested to know how it turns out. My mrs is from Middlesbrough so I should probably make one too

Thanks mat Was it a normal strength alcohol-wise? Sorry to be a pain!

How was it?

Yeah I've pretty much written this one off! 2nd brew is on and I think is much healthier

F$#@sake... Thanks for the heads up... I thought that made more sense sinve wort definitely appears more dense than beer!

This is where I'm confused .... All the instructions I read tell me that it should start around 1010 and finish at 1040 so I thought 1020 was low!

Forgot to mention, just used 1kg of dextrose (again, came in the kit)...

Thanks for all the replies, people. Just using the hydrometer that came with the kit... Narrow tube with the floating stem. Didn't take a reading until about 5 days in and that was 1020... Ended up bottling on the 13th day and it was still 1020. Tasted pretty good despite my best efforts to...

G'day guys, I'm brewing my first ever batch which is still bubbling away after 10 days but the specific gravity hasn't changed in the past 5 days (sitting at 1020). I made a few basic errors during the initial stages and have resigned myself to the fact ivI' basically brewed a light beer but...