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I reused the yeast from a Hammer of Thor kit for a Coopers Golden Lager kit. It has been in the barrel for about 4 weeks or more at about 10 degrees celcius. No bad flavours but sadly its cloudy. I think it might be because I tipped the container to get every last bit for the barrel whilst...

Wilkos golden lager kit. Never took a gravity reading before fermentation so proof-testing its strength the old fashioned way. Just polishing off pint 6 and still not hit the magic pint yet. I shall persevere...

Thanks for your advice. Without it I would have ended up with something weak and sickly sweet by the sounds of it. So I think I'll pitch high with w34/70 in the garage for the lager and I won't panic if it takes a while. Then I can keep the indoor space for another warmer brew.

I'm contemplating starting my third brew to distract myself from tapping into the first batch which is barely a week into its conditioning or worse still diving into batch 2 which is only half way through primary fermentation :nono: I'm using the last bit of room temperature space for batch 2...

Hi, I'm Simon from Nottingham. I've briefly dabbled with homebrew many years ago but I'm effectively a newbie having forgotten what little I knew. I'm sure I'll be trying to run before I can walk so any advice will be much appreciated.