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No, I dissolve it in boiled tap water and add the solution to the transfer vessel before syphoning the beer into it. Brewers Friend did...

Are you dissolving DME in water and THEN adding it to the bottle, or adding it dry? Sugar dissolves and ferments easily in beer at...

Fermentation ambient temp of 22/23 c seems a bit on the high side, especially considering temp of beer will rise above this. FG of 1.006...

Geoff Capes, the British shot put record holder and two-time world's strongest man, has died aged 75. Capes set the record for the...

Priming sugar easily dissolves and ferments easily without the need for inverting the bottle.

Be a bit careful when transferring the beer to the bottles (or keg) to avoid oxidation. Likewise, do not shake bottles to mix priming...

This is broadly what I do and seems to be be the norm. I Tape the probe to the side of the fermenter. Cover with a load of kitchen...

Adding 500g lactose to a one can kit is an option as it will add body but not additional fermentables. Milk stout is made with lactose...

Thanks all for the answers.....going to bottle it and see what happens. I am ready for bottle bombs worry not! I have show how little...

The Woodfordes kits give you two packets of yeast which makes it easy to do it in two halves. If it's one of the kits with hop pellets...

I can tell it's my role in this forum to defend beers that everyone else hates :). I quite like Ruddles County. To me, it is a low ABV...

I can understand why breweries are less likely to use the name bitter. It only really made sense when they were selling milds as an...

I do like Turkish delight. But I wouldn't want it in a beer!

I was in Manchester a few weeks ago and it was nice to see bitter alive and well there. I liked Holt's Bitter.

Thanks for the tip. Not sure beer warming up to 25 c is a problem where I live though! :-)