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So mine has had 16 days in a darkened shed and I think it has finished. No airlock activity whatsoever, and the ginger strands, which were being held up by the CO2 have all sunk to the bottom. It's lovely and clear, but then it pretty much was all the way through fermentation...

Stuck the lot into bottles tonight. Partly so I can return the keg and partly so I could practice bottling and putting bottle caps on for the first time. I'm going to stick it in the shed and forget about it. On to the next brew....

I do have some bottles that I could use, but being new to homebrewing I don't have a lot yet but maybe enough to save this brew. I also have another wilko's keg I could transfer to but maybe I should test it first. Can I bottle this already primed batch or will this method cause problems ? I'm...

I was in-store the other day and noticed all the coopers beer kits were down from £14 to a tenner as well.

Hopefully you can see this. Looks like ill be taking it back again.

Nope not the sealing washer. The black part that is the tap assembly that is attached to the white screw in part. Its leaking from behind the black plastic disc that the actual tap is mounted to. I will try and get a pic up soon.

Hi fatcol. Thanks for the advice, heaps of useful Info there ! I have vaselined both the cap thread and the lid thread. It is leaking from between the black part and white part of the tap where they join, just behind the tap itself. I didn't think those parts needed separating and greasing...

So keg number 2 is now leaking :( From a different place this time. Is it possible there is too much pressure here ? I have a picture but no idea how to attach it from my phone.

The screwcap was not sealing on the top letting air in and allowing the tap to drip from where it dispenses. The white tap barrel also seemed loose in its mounting. Went back and swapped it ! No hassle and all good. I will test each keg first before filling with brew though. Other keg is fine...

So this didn't go as well as planned. My wilkos pressure keg has steadily leaked from the tap overnight. Probably a quarter of a pint from steady dripping. Back to wilkos for a refund after i have put the brew into my luckily purchased second keg.

I'm in the middle of making a 2 gallon batch of this , but with a lower sugar content.... 10% sounded a bit heavy for summer bbq slurping ! I went for 600g of sugar a gallon. The only yeast I have is youngs wine yeast so that will be added later. The smell of the steeping ginger is amazing ...

Thanks for the tips guys. I'll be transferring the brew in the morning. That means I'll have a FV with nowt in it..... On to the next one.

I have been fermenting my first ever beer brew, a coopers original stout kit. All seems good but I could do with some advice for a first time of kegging and conditioning. All seems to have stopped after 10 days at a gravity of 1.010. I have taken this measurement 3 times over about 36 hours...

No such thing as being too obvious with me, I am a beginner and my knowledge is rudimentary at best. The original batches I did mix with lemonade in the glass to make them more pallettable, this worked quite well. If I were to sweeten the batch, would adding campden tablets first kill off...

I've not had the lager yet, I may have to pester this bar to get some in :grin: They usually have their Yorkshire golden or the blackout on tap as a rule.

This looks really easy and tasty. Perfect for a beginner like me ! Due to lack of equipment I will be making my own demijohns from 5L water bottles and utilising the water in the brew. I will be cutting holes the right size for rubber bungs in the lids and inserting airlocks. I will vaseline...

Thanks very much for that Joey. I'll be giving that a go when it makes it to the FV :thumb:

Wow ! this is just the sort of beer that really gets me excited. My dad recently went on a tour of the Great Yorkshire brewery (formerly Cropton brewery I think ?) and brought back some bottles. This was the stand out drink of the lot for me. Luckily the old man wasn't keen so I got his last...

Definitely still on Bob. I bought a pressure barrel for £18 today from the Hessle road store.

I have one of these kits waiting in the wings and really love a chocolatey stout. What quantity of cocoa did you add to this ? was it just your standard cocoa powder ? and would you add more or less if you repeated it ?