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Thanks for the advice, but just to clarify, my fermenting bucket doesn't have a built in kettle element, it's just a plain old plastic fermenting bucket that I've filled with boiling water from the kettle. But I'm pretty sure it's 'food grade', so I'm guessing it'll be fine.

Hi. After an off batch, I've decided to go all out on the sterilizing. Always seemed daft to me to make everything sterile and then top up with 20 litres or so of unsterile cold water. SO, I've gone through the tedious process of boiling 25 litres of water (took a while), which I intend to...

Well I'm abit unsure about my last gravity reading. My hydrometer always seems to lean to one side and it's quite a tight fit inside the test tube, so I'm not quite sure if my readings are correct. When I just put the hydrometer in the test tube and just left it, it would stop at around 1020...

Hi, I was going to bottle my Cooper's Mexican Cerveza today, so I sterilized (with StarSan) all my bottles, second fermenting bucket, syphons, etc, but after taking a gravity reading (my first since pitching the wort 8 days ago), I thought to leave it another 24 hours to ensure that the two...

Will check tomorrow then bottle. Thanks for the advice!

Hello again. Started the above mentioned brew. Added some dry malt and some brewing sugar until the gravity reached 1053. Left for 7 days before my first reading (didn't check on it at all in the meantime to reduce the risk of contamination) and it was at 1013, which I was pretty pleased...

Okay I will do that. Thanks for the help fbsf!

Should I add all my yeast from the start? The kit that I'm using only makes 10 litres (but I'm using two of them), and the sachet that comes with each says its for 20 litres. So according to the doses listed on the sache I've actually got enough yeast for 80 litres when I'm only making 20...

Hey! Have just brewed and drank my first batch of Ale from a Woodforde Real Ale kit, which was about as straight forward as it gets - didn't require any additional sugar or anything - just followed the instructions to a tee and was fairly happy with the end result, just totally flat. Any way...