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Seems like there is quite a lot to this. Couple of further questions I have. My drinking water is filtered (I have a triflow tap as I soften my water through a EcoWater softener) - can this softened stuff be used for brewing (I don't drink it, hence the triflow filtered tap) second question...

Thanks, I'll give that a go and see what the results are.

I live in a very hard water area, on the 2 brews that I've made so far the starting gravity has appeared quite low (around 1.032) My question is does hard water affect the starting gravity of your wort?

I had a sneaky taste about 10 days into conditioning. tasting quite nice but there is still a slight yeasty hint to it :hmm: I've bottled about a quarter of it and kegged the rest, it was quite excited as it came out the tap so I had to let it settle a bit. I'm guessing it needs a few more...

Well I've bottled (and kegged) my beer now so it's wait and see (excitement stage 2 :grin: ) I'll be buying some better yeast for future brews. Do you subsitute it weight for weight with the kit stuff? Also, how long does it keep. I make bread and know that once opened my breadmaking yeast...

Casually talking to someone recently about the trouble I had getting my yeast activated they thought it might have been temperature and suggested a brew belt. I knew the problem was probably aeration of the wort as advised tubby_shaw) Anyway, I thought it was an interesting item as I have a...

My wife and I used to regularly drink magners - I've thrown away tons of bottles in the past. I'll see if I can get some from the local. I might also experiment with a few green bottles and see how it turns out.

I've been collecting green pint bottles to store and condition my first homebrew, but I recently read somewhere that you should use brown glass as green allows ultraviolet light to penetrate and can damage the beer. Might seem like a stupid question but can I just condition and store the beer...

My fermenting bin comes with an airlock, if you give it a good sniff you can smell the brew .... it's smelling reeeaaaallly good :grin:

Thanks for the advice, I'll give that a try next time. I moved to Wokingham about 10 years ago so my local homebrew shop is the Hop Inn in Reading. It's actually a Wine Merchants but they have a section dedicated to home brewing.

Being new to this I've started off with a brew kit. Went down to my local homebrew shop and they advised me to get the Woodfordes Microbrewery starter kit (with a Wherry Premium Beer) - got it home and couldn't wait to get started. Got off to a slow start and it was nearly 24 hours before it...