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Yes opened 1st bottle yesterday great head and carbonation! Not cold.condtioned yet but still delicious! Chuffed with me 1st bottling!!!

Nice one Bob, Ill be into mine soonish, tastes good already just bottled lol, promising!

Im sure the bench cappers are superior to use, but i agree this thing seems solid, and capped them with such ease I can also see it lasting me a lifetime!

Yes this year I'm doing it and love Yorkie puds!!!!!

Thanks for the comments on temperature lads I'll just leave em be. Have emptied the ticking bomb's into proper bottled now. Regarding the capper,yeah I really fancied the bench one but just couldn't stretch the 40 quid for a good one. I honestly can't see a bench capper.being that much quicker...

Idont have a steady carbonation temperature really, will this be a big problem? 12 all night to 19 . Will it still carbonate but just take another week maybe?

yeah mate, hopefully get a year or too out of it before i upgrade to a desktop.

good advice pavros thanks Ill move em to better bottles soon as possible. :tinhat:acheers. our lass did mention......athumb..

Ok so manged to get my 23lt MJ IPA bottled this morning in the bathroom. Ended up with 33 bottles all 500ml with a handful of 650ml;s. 2 quarts jars and a wine bottle :) I added 130g priming sugar to aim at 2.3 carbonation volume, to my wilkos keg. Just used milton tablets and used the bath as...

thanks Cheshire, ill have a look at that.

My plan is to just batch prime in my wilko keg and bottle from there, prob get a bottling wand too. Just going to use granulated sugar any idea on quantity for a decent fizz. Pretty excited for my 1st bottling, that no doubt will subside after a few runs. :) Thanks.

Thought I'd start a bit of a brew diary, as I keep bumping ancient threads. Long time wine brewer, wondering why it took my so long to try beer! 1st kit was a Festival golden stag, was kegged, turned out flat but was still delicious. Just dry hopped my 2nd MJ grapefruit IPA so will be...

Here's a top tip....get Milton steralizing tablets from baby section in Wilkinson's £1.87 for 28 far cheaper.than the wine section powered stuff. They used to tell you wine instructions on em but removed them so you buy the more expensive wine beer steralizer stuff I bet!!!!! The instructions...

Ok thanks Neil

Well I'm 8 days into brewing my gf IPA. Hops went in yesterday @ 1.020 as packet stated. Any recommendations how long to dry hop this ? Have in trug, fish tank Heater set up holding 19degresss nicely. I would.like it as grapefruity as possible if that helps!!!!

This Tek works perfectly got it sitting at 19 c now so good as my house is cold %

thanks for a great guide, glad i did the water test 1st.! Just got my 2nd brewgoing [(manjojacks grapefruit IPA] in an upstairs cold bedroom rarely heated, with a duvet wrapped around. holding about 20 degrees so ill go with that :)

I take it I can add any brand dextrose or light malt extract?

Good grief!!! Who sells kits where you have to buy extra ingredients? Is this extra purchase nessisarry? Which addition tastes better????

Think this is going to be my 2nd brew. I truly adored festivals golden stag and am a huge fan of Elvis juice .