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I boil the dextrose in 200ml of water and add it to the bottling bucket before siphoning in the beer from the fermenter from there it gets siphoned to the bottles. I use flip top bottles, mainly recycled Grolsch. The instructions call for 1/2tsp/pint. For the 40 pints I use 96g of dextrose so...

Thanks for the replies. I am using a Muntons Gold yeast on the latest Ale. 1st ferment was about 20-21C and I kept the primed bottles in an insulated & cooled bag (20C) for a week so far. There seems to be little gas but the taste is OK. The water I use is filtered from the tap. It tastes OK...

Hi MashBag, Well I have been making a few beers from kits to start off (Special Belge, a few pilsners and now a brown ale). I need to get the fermentation and bottling right before I step on to all grain. My latest issue is with bottling (I think) explained in the post below...

Hi all, I am hoping to get a firm idea of what is causing some off tastes in my last few (kit) brews. I started with a Brewferm special Belgi in May and controlled the temperature of the primary fermentation OK. I bottled it and left it 3 weeks and it was pretty good (slightly off but only if I...

Hi All, I am just starting on this home brew journey to enlightenment.