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I have 15 ltrs dry hopping in my bottling bucket, as I bottled the first 5 before adding the hops. When batch priming, can I just stir the sugar solution into the bottling bucket before bottling? There's a small amount of sediment sitting on the bottom which I don't want to disturb, but...

Hi, I transferred my Great Eastern beer into a secondary/ bottling bucket intending to bottle about 10 bottles and dry hop the rest for a week or so. Out of laziness/forgetfulness it's been in there a couple of weeks already and a little yeast looks to have settled at the bottom. Will there...

Hi, I've had a Woodfordes Great Eastern Ale kit fermenting for 10 days now, the SG has levelled out to 1012 but there's still loads of crud floating on the surface. My first kit had a few lumps floating around, which I fished out before racking, but this one has loads of smaller rice grain size...

I've got a Great Eastern Ale to stick on for my 2nd kit and some cascade hops and dried elderflower to jazz it up with. My original plan was to steep the hops and elderflower to make a hop tea to add my wort. Having never made this kit before I realised it would be a little pointless, as I...

I live in a 4th floor flat and don't have any outside space or a spare room, there's nowhere cold enough! Could I condition them in the fridge?

Hi, My understanding of bottle conditioning is that you need a 'warm week' for the secondary fermentation to take place and then a few 'cold weeks' to clear your beer down. I batch primed and bottled my first ever kit brew at the weekend (takes a while the first time!) and it's now in the...

Hey there, My friends call me Tucker and I live in Brighton. Despite being 32 I only got into ale this summer. I was at a real ale and cider festival and tried some Dark Star Summer Meltdown when they ran out of cider... I haven't looked back! It's the beer equivilant of eating cheddar all your...