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Thanks for this ... sweating over thought of all that effort going to waste!

Always thought advice was to store in a cool place?

Bottled in 330ml, kept in garage which is cool, added 25g sugar per gallon

Bottled my chinook IPA two weeks ago, seemed a tad cloudy at the time, but expected to clear in bottle - just tried my first one, not much fiz and still looking like dishwater. Will it age? Or are my 30 bottles lost?

Just using Miltons tablets in bucket - bottles are clean.

Hi All I have a big day of bottling today - but relatively small capacity to sterilise. How long can I leave bottles standing once sterilised before I risk chance if contamination? Thanks in anticipation for your Support

forgive my continued newbie questions - but this forum is giving me an outlet for things I have pondered for sometime. I make small batch beer using a 1 or 2 Gallon Set-up ... the yeast I buy is suitable to make 5 gallons - am I therefore ok to halve each packet? If so, how is this best stored?

What do you use to ferment your 2G batches in?

Thanks - small batches working well for me as learning and inconsistent. Fermentation is the point of my concern hence my focus on testing. I have some brews where the fermentation visibly last days, and some where it’s vigorous but seemingly over in 48 hrs - using different yeasts, following...

Is there a general FG target I should be aiming for before bottling?

I get the importance of Hydrometers and testing beer at key stages - but if I am brewing small 1 Gallon batches in a demijohn- how do I test without wasting my precious commodity? If I sterilise - am I ok testing in the DJ directly?

Looking at all the reviews on the all-in-one systems, the Grainfarther comes out best (but at a price) is the Klarstein comparable, or is it a case of pay for what you get?

Thanks all - really helpful to get a knowledgeable steer on this. Got so use to using old wine demijohns (have about 8 on the go at any one time), I know the process well now, so this feels like starting from scratch again.

Hi GerritT and thank you for the welcome I am looking to move production to garage- so ideal to move to electric boil. Seen a few setups online where you get whole kit - trying to balance benefits of individual purchase? If sov- kit or individual- what is best starter to make things easy?

I have been brewing 1 Gallon batches for sometime and am about to step up to the a 5 Gallon setup. Would really welcome advice on what is the best kit to get.... it’s like a minefield