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I left my beer kit in the FV for 5 months (to the day!) due to it being tourist season and working 7 days a week for this time. Finally had a day off and bottled it today: do the experts here think I have wasted my time bottling it? This is also the reason you haven't seen me around for a...

So yesterday I bottled and kegged my two fermenting brews. Both tasting good. Clearly I have caught the bug again as I am currently heating a can of Geordie Mild LME. I shall be brewing this short to 20 litres rather than 23 litres following some research. I was considering just mixing my last...

Good evening all! Just tested the gravity of a Youngs Harvest Stout I set off on the 9th March. The initial gravity was 1015......which I seemed to feel was very low: maybe just me. Ten days later it is at 1011. Making it currently at 0.53% abv. Should I be worried? Did I maybe misread the...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had used the sanytol disinfectant (usually clothes etc) for sanitising equipment. I have litres of it here (dont ask)

Good morning all...just set off a Cooper's Dark Ale. Sadly lost a pint or two while filling due to a knackered rubber seal, so quickly decanted into a new vessel. Brewed short to 20 litres in the end with 1kg of Better Brew brewing sugar. Shall see what this gives. Have three more kits (Youngs...

Good evening all, This is a second introduction as I have been off the forum for a long time. Work etc got in the way of brewing etc. From the UK, ex-army now living in France (since 2017). Have been homebrewing for years (only LME kits), moved to France where getting kits is impossible so I...

Good evening to you all, I joined the forum some time ago, and had started to participate but sadly life and a moe to another country got in the way. So after two years in the north of France (having lost all my homebrewing equipment in the move, Free tip: don't pack all your valuables in the...

Hello all, Nice to make you acquaintances. I am Will, an English chap who moved to France six months ago. Back in the UK I had done homebrew wine , beer and cider....mainly from kits, plus the usual sloe gin etc. Sadly all my brewing stuff is back in the UK (money is tight with...