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Yep my thoughts exactly - out of curiosity I tasted a bit of the concentrated malt from a home brew kit and yeah this is exactly what it tasted like. I tipped it down the sink :( Yeah this was alright, tickled the 'I want a beer' itch :) Yeah this one was alright too. But yeah, the St...

I did one of these, started on the 14th Feb - I wrote down an initial SG of 1.026 which I don't think could have been right, (I usually take a pic, but didn't) as two days later after a nice bit of bubbling it was 1.030. A few days later on the 25th it was 1.024, and seemingly not doing much...

So I've got my final batch of the IPA that is now on day 8, so according to instructions should have had the hops added yesterday, left for 3 days, then bottled. However, i'm going away on Sunday, coming back next Friday - should I maybe leave it until next Friday, then add the hops (and also...

Well I bottled it on the 29th July and tasted it on the 21st August, so i wasn't super impatient.. The raspberry one I was even less patient but after less than two weeks it is definitely better than the first batch, so I think the heat definitely did add some off flavours. By contrast, the...

I'm a total novice, I brought a cider making kit aaaaaages ago (Maybe 2012) which I planned to put to use using the glut of apples in my garden and also from the trees near where I work. Anyway, for whatever reason, (I guess mainly figuring out how to mash and press the apples) it sat unused...

Hi, noob brewer here, I've done a couple of the B&M kits, the first one I think got a little too hot during the ferment (This was when we were hitting 30-35 degrees in the summer) and was drinkable, but definitely had a slight aftertaste. That got better the longer I left it (I think I had the...