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Learned a valuable lesson this morning. Don't underestimate the potency of my home brew. 1 500ml of Brazilian cerveza, two large glasses of red wine and I have a hangover this morning. Alarm went off at 0515hrs for work. Oh my head! 🙈

It's a kit from Wilko

I've just done a batch from Wilko too. Cab sauv. It's a little on the sweet side too, quite jammy on the palate but a definite wine finish. . Not too unpleasant tho. No idea of the abv as can't get hydrometer into the Demi John and back out again! The Chardonnay turned out a bit drier. I'd be...

Big handbags and pubs ( when open) 😂😂

I used flip top bottles which gave a nice pop as I opened. The beer is more sparkling than actually fizzy. Will this improve over the next few days? Tbh I don't mind the slightly sparkling but a bit more fizz would be an improvement.

I'm in.n

Last night out of absolute impatience I opened a bottle of my first batch in over 20 yrs. A Brazilian cerveza. I bottled in flip top bottles. At this stage with officially 5 days to go until it's finally ready it's slightly sparkling ( definitely not flat) and quite yummy. I've popped a couple...

A Brazilian style cerveza. Bizarrely I have a brewing bucket with a tap but I didn't have the means of getting the sugar into the bottles without it being fiddly. I'm not concerned about the shelf life right now as I'm sure it's not going to need one. My family have the date it's ready in their...

Thanks Anna. I was finding it a bit fiddly to put the sugar in the bottles so I used a jug. Put the correct amount of sugar into the jug and poured the beer into the jug ( which I sterilised) then poured into the bottles. It certainly smells like beer!!

I had no activity in the airlock at all. However I checked the hydrometer and it hit the yellow marker for bottling so I did. Now I'm a bit worried. Also as the beer clears I'm getting sediment at the bottom of the bottles. Not sure if this is okay.