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Thanks for the hop suggestions IainM, will definitely check them out. Keen to try kits as company have intended and then try adding hops and brew enhancement variations to see what improvements can be made. It's all good fun and with some tweaks you can hopefully make something unique.

I bottled adding more sugar due to exploding bottle stories and over fizzy brews so went for the lower end of the scale Strange-Steve. Will check out Hydrometer as you suggest, it tends to lean to the side a bit so may be a dud. I have pet bottles so new some carbonation is taking place as...

As a lager drinker new to home brewing I opted for the Coopers Lager for my first kit after reading various reviews and watching youtube videos. I bought my starters kit, which came with a Coopers Lager tin with hops sachet (no instructions), 1kg of unnamed brew enhancer and the usual items...

Thanks for the advice everyone. Decided to go with priming calculator, hopefully it will work out ok. Bottles are now all filled and hopefully will behave themselves until that are ready for the fridge and drinking.

Good tip Baggybill, also a good way to stock up bottles. Cheers.

Hi all, About ready to bottle ny first proper attempt at homebrew. Hopefully I followed all the great advice and tips on this forum to ensure it will be a fairly successful 1st attempt. So already a big thank you to everyone for who's advice and tips I have followed. John.

As a lager drinker I went for Coopers Lager as it seemed to be a safe bet to get a drinkable first brew. I am still a bit unsure about how much priming sugar I should be preparing for bottling. Just going to use granulated sugar as a bench mark for future attempts. Any advice on how many much...