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As others said, just use your home (assuming it is somewhere about 19C - 20C) as temperature controller. Specific yeast types require different temperatures, but it is not the case of yeast coming with the kit

10l of Cascade IPA 2093 L total

Here I am: 10l of Cascade Blonde Ale 1486 litres total

Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the yeast, I know one packet is meant for 23l batches. If I use half a packet, do you think I can save the remaining part for a second brew or risk of infections/contaminations is high?

Hello all, I am planning my first brew from extract (so far I did few brews from kits). I would like to obtain a refreshing blonde ale, easy to drink with ABV around 5% and "medium" hop flavour (i.e. something tasty but that my sister could enjoy, and she doesn't like IPAs). Here's the very...

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Personal opinion: not at all. I find very posh paying that amount of money for a beer

Started brewing this year: here's my contribution (all brews from kit so far)... 23l Coopers real ale 15l Brewferm Saison (unfortunately down the tap) 12l Brewferm IPA 23l Muntons brown ale Total: 10,628 2024 target: move away from kits and experiment extract brewing

I could be next in line... I started with kits, now I'm moving to E+G method and who knows about the future...

I am not an experienced home brewer (I just did 3 brews so far), but I can share what I learned about fermentation temperature. 2nd brew I did fermented at about 24C and result was very bad: beer has an heavy alchool off-flavour. Read carefully kit instruction about optimal temperature (that...

Hi, I made a Christmas ale starting from a kit. I followed a recipe suggested by Coopers (but starting from a Brewferm kit). I can't tell how it turned out as I just bottled, but maybe you can get inspired https://www.diybeer.com/au/recipe/julebryg.html

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Thank you for sharing the formula (I was looking for a quantitative relation like that). So, according to the kit instruction initial gravity of the kit should be around 1065 and final gravity 1017. This should give around 7% ABV. If I well understood your formula, if I reduce the added sugar...

Another question. If I would like to obtain a lower ABV % can I simply reduce the sugar added? Considering a 12l batch, how much is the delta in ABV % if I reduce the sugar from 500g to 400g?

Thanks for ths suggestions. I will check the batch size of the kit, I don't want to split the batch (sounds way too complex for me...) I will probably skip dry hopping for the moment, see how it is coming out and maybe try something different next time

Hello all, In the coming weeks (as soon as the temperature will drop as I live in Italy) I will start my second brew. I would like to make an IPA from a kit (I am considering the Brewferm English IPA for a 12l batch). I would like to try the dry hopping method. What is the right amount of hops...

I think the real issue for the hop plant are the aphids. Killing the ants won't resolve the problem, in my opinion

If aphid infection is well confined you can just remove the parts with parasites. Otherwise you can try with neem oil. It works quite well and it's much ligther (both for humans and environment)

So, after 2 weeks in the fermenting vessel + 2 weeks in bottle I didn't resist and I opened the first bottle to sample the result... I have to say it is better than I expected as first brew. A little bit too sparkling for my taste (I will probably reduce priming sugar from 5g/l to 4g/l). I will...

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