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it taste's great!!!!!! Thanks for all the advice guys

Ok guys i have located the pressure barrell into the cold room now. Swansea City play Cardiff City in 16 days time. I hope it will be ready for that. Nah seriously though, is there any final checks i should be doing now? Or just leave it in cold room?

Yes i have bought 'brew your own british ale'. By graham wheeler. Oh and im from Swansea

Ah yes your right. I only had the testing jar 3 quarters full. Once i added more beer the hydrometer floated. So for future reference i will put the same amount in the testing jar each time. Well i have taken the reading and noted it down. The reading is in the top yellow part on the meter...

Ok here goes. Today i picked up the hydrometer, testing jar, turkey baster suringe. Ive just sterilised the syringe and put a sample in the testing jar. Popped the hydrometer in and it has just sunk to the bottom. What does this mean? Have I left it ferment too long? Oh and I havnt added the...

Ok guys thanks for all your replies with your suggestions and advice. This is the stage where i am at now. december 27th first started home brew from a Tom Caxton kit. until this point it has been in a warm room and i havnt added any more sugar for the second stage. So correct me if im...

Ok chinacat, thanks for the advice. I am lookin on ebay for a hydrometer as we speak. I forgot to add its a Tom Caxton bitter brew kit. The thing i find hard the most is keeping it anythin over 19c. The standard room temperature in my house is around 18c in the warmest room. Possibly up to 19c...

Ok then lads i will go with your advice on here. Im at the 6th day in first FV right now. So is it now i add the sugar? And do i stir it in or just add it and leave it alone?

Thanks for the reply. It says on the brew kit instructions to leave stand for 4-6 days in warm. Then syphon the brew into a pressure barrell, then Add 85gms sugar, stand in warm place for further two days, then move to cold room for 14 days.

At the start of the brew i added brewing sugar as instructed. Now im at the stage of adding more sugar before locating the barrell into a cold room and the kit instructions says add 85gms of sugar per 5 gallon barrell. My question is do i add 85gms of normal sugar or 85gms of brewing sugar again?

thanks for the welcome guys. wow i cannot believe how busy and popular this forum is, so many people have joined after me aswel. I am really gonna give this home brew lark a good shot. And it will be great to talk to other people on their views and opinions on other Welsh Ales.

ok cheers guys, i feel much better now. the kit is a Tom Caxton Bitter kit,

Just attempted my first brew of bitter. Two errors i have made that i hope are not going to be too costly. Firstly, i forgot to sanitize the fermenting bucket. Yes im the biggest fool going. It is a new kit and i washed everything thoroughly before i started. But then only found the small...

I had my first beer brew kit bought for me for xmas and have just got started. Im from Wales and have a interest in all real Ale that is brewed and sold in Wales, and my (empty) bottle collection is growing. My favourite is Felinfoel brewery Double Dragon, based in Llanelli. other favourites are...