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After a further two weeks, I opened a bottle. Not very nice at all. It had cleared a little but tasted very yeasty (brought back memories of the awful homebrew I used to make as a poor student) and had almost no head. Down the sink it went, and I opened another. This one was great. Almost all of...

Well, I opened the first bottle of my Nelson's Revenge brew today. I bottled it two weeks ago, kept the bottles at room temperature for a week and then put it into the garage. I got 32 500ml bottles from the 36 pint kit, so there was a bit of wastage. But (excluding my time) it works out at...

Thanks very much for those replies; I feel a lot happier about it now. It's in a room that is about 21 degrees. It's either that or in the garage (which is cold!). I will leave it until next weekend I think to give it two clear weeks. Unfortunately I didn't have a hydrometer when I started the...

Hi, I've made a brew using the Woodforde's Nelson's Revenge kit. I think it might have failed. I left it for 7 days and then took a look. There was almost no foam on the surface; a bit of scummy stuff around the side, and a very thin layer of bubbles on the top of the liquor. I checked the...

Great, thanks.

I'm on my second kit at the moment. I made a Wherry brew earlier this year. It tasted OK but most of the bottles were cloudy even 6 weeks after bottling, and these were a bit yeasty tasting. I read somewhere that using beer finings would get the yeast to settle much more quickly. I have a...