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Thanks Mick. Maybe I just had a couple of duff bottles. BTW it's supposed to be quite like Adnams Broadside (my favourite bottled beer), and the first few were very much like that.

I brewed a batch of 40 pints from a kit (Festival Old Suffolk Ale), and this was ready to drink on 17 March (that was 6 weeks after bottling). 11 weeks on from that I still have a dozen or so bottles. I tried a bottle a couple of weeks ago, and it had almost no flavour. I opened another one last...

Well actually there are plenty of ifs, buts, whys and wherefores. Read the links in the other posts I've put up this morning. There is in fact a huge question mark over whether it would even work. But far worse, this is a clear foot in the door to allow this and future governments to...

Here's one from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/07/uk-may-ditch-nhs-contact-tracing-app-for-apple-and-google-model

A legal expert at UCL has published (yesterday, May 9) a forensically detailed analysis of this app and comes rapidly to the conclusion that it is illegal in terms of its data retention and lack of transparency (amongst other things). https://osf.io/preprints/lawarxiv/6fvgh The Register also...

One day short of the six weeks but I needed to take my mind off the dreaded bug. So I opened a Festival Suffolk Old Ale. Really nice, and actually not a million miles from Broadside, which is what I wanted to get to. If I was sold this in a pub I'd drink it happily. So I reckon I can safely...

I bottled my third kit, a Festival Suffolk Old Ale, two weeks ago. It has been sitting at 21 degrees during that time, and today I moved the bottles out to the garage (about 8 degrees). Before I moved it I cautiously shone a torch through a bottle and it was clear! There was a thin layer of...

I wondred about using a no-rinse solution and the latest batch I bottled I used Brewsan. This has sodium percarbonate as the active ingredient. When I had washed the bottles and drained them they still smelled strongly of the disinfectant, so I wimped out and rinsed them out with water. If I can...

Thanks - that all makes sense. I will try the suggestion about beer versus dregs. It might nail down the taste that I've found in my beers. Presumably I can just replace one yeast with another? The kits I've used have a sachet of yeast in them - can I just swap that for something like the GV12...

I've just finished bottling the Suffolk Old Ale. I used the two bucket method, and I got 40 500 ml bottles out. I thought about marking the first and last bottles, but to be honest I don't think there was any difference between them as I'd just siphoned the beer from the fermentation vessel and...

For the Festival Suffolk Old Ale kit I used Tesco Ashbeck bottled water. I also added finings to hopefully help clarify it. I've been scrupulous about cleaning the bottles too. So far so good; the starting gravity was 1060 and the final was 1014 (tested twice, 48 hours apart). I think that...

Well, I'm down to the last few bottles of this Nelson's Revenge kit. Here's how the time went: Started fermenting around 28 November Bottled on 7 December (9 days) First bottle opened 21 December - not good Another bottle opened 4 January - better but still not that good Next opened 15 January...

Thanks for the replies. I'm planning to bottle my Suffolk Old Ale tonight, so I'll try the double bucket method.

I've just set my next kit going (Festival Suffolk Old Ale). In the destructions it says that at the end of fermentation I should syphon the beer from the fermentation vessel into a second bucket, then dissolve the priming sugar, and finally syphon it into bottles. I'm a bit concerned about...

Ah. Brew in a bag.

BIAB? Brewed in a bottle?

The dirty bottle could be behind it, though I'm almost obsessive about cleaning them out. Anyway, I've left my Nelson's Revenge for another couple of weeks. The bottle I opened tonight was crystal clear in the glass, and had a creamy head about an inch deep. It tasted excellent, but there is...

Is that the smell of the shed or the beer? acheers.

I run my own IT business. I think my interest in brewing came from two sources; one, the conviction that it must be possible to improve on the dreadful stuff I concocted when I was a poor student (Oh, the hangovers...) and two, the fact that it has all become much more accessible with the high...

I've tried a Woodfordes Wherry and a Nelson's Revenge, and the results, while far from perfect, have been encouraging enough to make me want to keep going. So I'm thinking about what kit I should try next. I'd like to achieve something that comes close to my favourite bottled beer (Adnams...