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Thanks, sugar is stock so that's easy approach. Also one dried sprayed malt in stock so 50% sugar and 50% dried sprayed malt seems easy route for the bitter. Reading what you say then likely 50% sugar and 50% treacle for the other. But I have time to think about it.

Well following instructions ready to drink, sweet sparking refreshing, cloudy cider with a s.g. of 1.020 which makes me think no where near fully fermented but still a nice pint.

I would like to improve my beer, not drinking as must now so may as well be better quality. The two can route is easy, however replacing the sugar with honey, Syrup, treacle, cornsugar, or spray dried malt may have better results? The latter works out more expensive than two can which asks the...

I read how when yeast dies it can tell the other yeast there is an unfavourable condition and the other yeast goes dormant. So with a stalled brew, moving to a fresh fermentor leaving as much yeast behind as possible and adding new yeast can restart it and keep it going. I have had it once and...

Unfortunately my religion will not permit it, and even those that do, the old wife needs to give permission for you to have a new one, and you have to show you have the means to support two wives. There is also a problem with British law, they don't allow you to have a second wife although the...

I have set the freezer to maintain the box at 19.5°C to 20°C which is the temperature used for my beer, looking at the energy meter the freezer had to do some work to maintain that temperature so if it did not have a controlled temperature likely it would have reached 25°C at least...

Ginger beer is an odd brew, there are is seems two organisms used in the brewing one which produces alcohol and the other which feeds on the alcohol so the end result is not alcoholic. I remember the so called Ginger beer plant, adding sugar and ginger daily and after 14 days straining the...

No kit no longer shown on the Wilko web site did say some thing like Victors Apple Cider 20 Pint - Create your own delicious Victor's Drinks apple cider with this easy to use kit. Just add water and the yeast provided and after only 48 hours etc. But link is now no longer. Maybe that is why it...

I have made cider from apples, used a juicer and it took a good 6 months before it could be drunk. In real terms more like a year. Which is why rather surprised that this kit says 48 hours. Also every kit I have done gives the temperature range, this one just says room temperature. There was a...

I am assuming your meaning without a brew fridge? In early days I brewed with fermentor on a plastic stool so it was about 18 inches off the floor, that was around the minimum required to syphon into bottles. I used body warmers over the fermentor with the air lock through the neck of body...

I had a cider kit bought for me, says cider in 48 hours, simple add yeast then add water, however it was black on red writing and I read it as add 10 pints of water, where in fact it is add 18 pints of water, when I went to Wilko and saw other versions on the shelf I realised my error. So...

45W? must be a really rotten fridge to need such a large heater. I used 8W and fed it through a energy meter to see how much power it needed, in heart of winter with fridge/freezer in my integral garage unheated ambient temperature around zero and set temperature of 20ºC I required an average...

I would agree that an old fridge or fridge/freezer does stop temperature swings, but it also holds the heat inside typically I find without refrigeration a new brew will be between 2°C and 4°C hotter in the fridge than it would be in my garage, that's without and heating, so in the winter...

Well refrigeration now turned off. Both brews at end of ferment and a little extra heat will help finish them off. I will admit one will have charcoal added anyway to remove any off tastes. But it does not harm to leave a little longer to clean up before I start adding chemicals and using...

You can't really do a lager from a kit, the problem is lager takes time with such a low temperature and in this time with tap water you are likely to get infection, with a larger every thing needs to be boiled and everything keeping really clean, and in this weather clearly a brewing fridge is a...

Year one I continued to brew through the year (2013) there was a marked reduction in quality for summer brews, I found by Christmas the poor brews had improved, but not as good as those brewed in Autumn, Winter and Spring, so I gave up summer brewing. However this year I was short on stock so...

OK maybe I am missing something! Why will hotter weather cause a bottle bomb. In fact I would have expected the reverse. As the pressure in good weather tends to be higher than in poor weather, at the moment it has dropped to 1011 pa but I have seen it down at 996 pa in bad weather. I am having...

With only 3-4 days left not really a problem it is already in the cleaning up stage. I do the same kit again and again Young's Scottish Heavy it takes around 20 days, first 10 is important and for that time if is in the freezer set at 19.5ºC after that it moves from freezer compartment to...

Using a fan playing on the wet towel will also help. But how much help depends on the humidity today where I live 66% so wet towels and fan would work well, but as humidity goes up they stop working as well. See http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=64293 which is all about the same...

I bought my mother one of these freezers to go on top of her fridge/freezer to keep a larger stock of ready meals, it went wrong, the thermostat went faulty, and I used a MH1210A temperature controller to run it, which is very similar to the STC-1000 while waiting for a replacement from Hong...