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Ty luckyeddie, I have noticed how temperature can have a huge effect on taste, but I do try to avoid drinking anything that has to be ice cold to be drinkable. I try drinking at room temp, and if it tastes like pond water, I figure that when it is ice cold, it will still taste like pond water...

the 5l bottles seem to be pretty strong, looks like they are blown, as apposed to moulded, so no weak points. Will not risk using them more than once though. Lager looks pretty complicated, as I understand it, the idea of lagering is to extend the life of the beer? Might leave it a while before...

ty luckyeddie, I am carbonating, is that not a good idea in the 5l bottles?

Ty doghouse gav, I got all my starter stuff from them, very reasonable prices, good company to deal with, but the problem is if you just need say bottle caps or an airlock, you still have to pay the full delivery cost, and it gets so you pay more for delivery than the cost of the items, so...

Ty crisparmour, but as I understand the process, when carbonating, you need the pressure don't you? The bottles seem to have survived so far, have just put one in the freezer to cool it for re-bottling to glass half litre bottles.

sounds like a large fridge lol, and I got a mental image of all the food from the fridge piled up on the worktop. I am a little concerned as the water bottles do seem to be bulging out a lot, but I think it would probably take quite a bit to burst one. I recently got a couple of airlocks from...

ty luckyeddie, was from morrisons, I wanted the 5l containers to, am using them to condition my beer, then I will re-bottle into glass in a week or so. Am also thinking of trying a ginger beer from scratch, so will be using one of the water bottles as a demijohn. Hopefully the bitter is ok...

just bottled coopers english bitter, made with bottled water, and 1KG of dextrose. This is only my second brew, (yep, that new,) and true to my sn, I "accidentally" drank some while starting the syphon, (several times,) and it had a slightly metalic taste. Was just wondering if that is anything...

An appreciation for good beer, and the Simpsons, surely the benchmark for true civilisation. Have just started a Coopers English Bitter, using bottled springwater a-la-morrisons. Look at me go lol, there is no stopping me now.

Woo Hoo! just tried my beer again after a couple more days conditioning, and it was so much better, hardly twitched at all after drinking it :thumb:

ty luckyeddie, these sugar lumps are 3g, I was hoping for 2 to 2.5g, and this is the closest I could get, but having now sampled the bitter after a week of conditioning, I have decided to try using dextrose instead, and trying a 2 stage approach, I am getting some 5L plastic bottles (spring...

ty for the continued welcomes all, and I know what you mean luckyeddie, about the gob fungus. Have just bottled my first attempt, is a victorian bitter, tasted pretty good when I "accidentally" sucked some from the tube, but I was strong, I resisted my desire to just keep suckling like some...

Thanks for the welcome, and lol@luckyeddie. The history behind the name is my only real experience of home brewing. I had a friend who was into brewing when we were little more than kids, and we did a bitter kit, by way of a joint project, and when it came time to bottle it, while starting the...

just wanted to say hello, am new to brewing, and have been impressed by the generosity of brewers, when it comes to sharing information. I doubt I will have much of value to contribute for a while, except for being able to tell the forum how funky beer can taste when you do it wrong :sick: And...