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Advice from the endless supply of advice please! I am now casking my ales after primary fermentation with the priming sugar and then after leaving it in the cask for 3 to 4 weeks depending on the starting SG I crack the top of the cask open to expel excess gas and leave it cracked for a full 24...

Thank you everyone, everything is cleaned with a mild detergent and sterilizer first plus then sterilized on the rinser. I shall definitely get starsan if it means no rinsing. It does make sense to me that the bucket that it got transferred to was possibly infected as i used a differrent one for...

I am having a major disaster!!! I have had a whole batch of beer go bad in the bottle. Lots of white blooms on the inside surface of the bottles and now the next batch I have done is looking like it may be going the same way!! Very stressed and upset about the situation and what should be a...

Thanks, yeh hopefully it will be a success. I have done plenty of kits but this is far more interesting and enjoyable to actually influence flavour as oppose to just add water. I will still do kits tho as some are well good, Festival ales are very good, Landlords bitter and razorback IPA are the...

Yup hello, I am fairly new to the forum and already finding it incredibly useful. Good luck with the first ale kit

Nice one, will post any worthy progress cheers

Hi, no sorry no wheat in it! I am unsure of wheat in beers, but yet to experiment so I shall hold judgement. I used malt extract as I don't have the facilities to ferment grain. It had pale malt extract and i used crystal malt grains as well as my hops. I used a windsor english beer yeast (I am...

Well first proper post, I wanted to share the fact that i made my first ale with home grown hops! Cobbled together a beer design with some educated guessing using Northdown for bittering anf some Fuggles and W.G.V. for post boil plus a good helping of W.G.V. into the bin for dry hopping. Its a...

Hello, its suggested that I give a small introduction to everyone (not so sure who will notice) but hello anyway. I have been brewing for 4 years, country wines to begin with. Blackberry, rhubarb, sloe etc. I have been brewing ales for 1 year and currently have 3 hop vines growing that are...