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Evening chaps, About to brew the 'fiery ginger ale' recipe from these very boards with a few tweaks, but I'm keen not to use champagne yeast as suggested as many have commented that it is quite dry, which as far as I can see may well be down to the champagne yeast. Any suggestions for a yeast...

fantastic, cheers rpt.

I'm currently brewing the notorious St Peter's Ruby Red kit - fermentation went fine, transferred to a pressure barrel with the standard amount of golden caster sugar, and left it for exactly a week. Of course, with the current weather, for that entire week the pressure barrel was at...

This looks brilliant - but can you make this using a standard fementing bin instead of a lauter?

Thank you all very much, put my mind at rest.

Thanks very much, very useful. So do you think that it will "probably" be ok then? I've stuck my airlock in with a bit of water in it just because it can't do any harm, and may keep out anything that might get in between now and the end of fermentation. It is a u-bend type, but it also has a red...

A few days ago I started fermenting my first brew with a pretty standard Cooper's English Bitter kit, but I am obviously completely inexperienced and think I might have made a serious error. Basically, I didn't insert the airlock into the rubber grommet in the top of the fermenting bin and I'm...