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Looks good, thats a great homebrew shop and the festival kits are great, ive done the landlord bitter and it was lovely. Good luck with it, best to get another going soon to build up a stock

It was really nice, im told the bentonite calms down fermentation so it can look very calm but everything is happening fine. Not sure it was worth the extra money and my local has stopped stocking these now so i wont be doing it again, it was a very good kit though and the bentonite made the...

Ended up kegging this and ive had a few pints off it now, its fantastic. A little more roasted flavour than a guinness in my opinion, was a big hit with my mate who is a guinness drinker. Would do this one again without a doubt

That kit comes with a lager yeast but i brewed at about 18-20 and it was fine, you could do a mini mash instead of adding bke or spraymalt and then do a hop boil, or just steep a little cystal malt and then boil with some saaz.

I use thehomebrewcompany.co.uk for most of my grains and hops, then i get most of my kits and sundries from my local shop brew2bottle

I followed the advice of coopers my time out and just rinsed everything with hot water and it turned out fine but knowing what i know now i would definately sanitize before use. You might get away with not doing it but when its so easy to sanitize stuff why not do it and just give yourself the...

the english bitter suggests just using 500g of dme to make a low abv beer, replacing that with sugar will not have helped but the other points will be a big part of it too.

I would also use 1kg of light or extra light spraymalt, you could also get a muntons or other brew enhancer which is usually slightly cheaper

Sounds good, im looking at growing some yeast soon so might have a go with this one

You could easily buy a large second hand fridge and stc temp control for that money and might have a bit left over if you get a bargain on the fridge.

Dont worry how it tastes now, the flavour will be very different after a few weeks conditioning time in the bottles, i personally really enjoyed this kit

How much priming sugar did you use? Ive had a coopers stout with carbonation drops and i found that was far too carbonated and kicked up alot of flavours that are normally quite mild

Yeh ive always been afraid of this, its why ive always used 33l fvs and i havnt yet had a problem. Having said that there is a coopers stout going ape poop right next to me as we speak so i may have to eat my words

Did you mash first and then boil? or just boiled the whole lot? If youve boiled the grains rather than mashing them then you wont have extracted sugars i dont think and you will have extracted all the tanins and nasties that you dont want, i wouldnt have thought it will ferment properly and it...

Do you mean 1.005? If so then yes sounds normal to me

Are there any homebrew clubs currently in cheshire? Me and a friend would be very interested in joining

Went with that recipe just change the northern brewer to first wort hops, boil is on now. Biscuit malt smelt great

Is styrian goldings not very good as a bittering hop then? I wanted ekg but they were out. I want it fairly bitter, also what is the difference between a bitter and esb?

Heres what ive come up with, what do you guys think? Too much going on maybe ive basically just put in what sounded good to me. Marris otter 5kg Biscuit malt 450g Crystal 120 250g Torrified wheat 250g Roasted barley 100g Styrian goldings 35g (60mins) Northern brewer 20g(60mins) Stryrian...

Im going to just have a play with brewmate and see if i can make something interesting