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  1. matt.

    Warm then cold

    Brewing my fifth kit today Woodforde's Admiral Premium Ale 5.5% Previous kit brews have gone well, but I'm always learning. With the warm weather, ( I'm in Aberdeen but still warm ) how do I place the bottles into a cool place after the initial 2 - 3 days in a warm place after bottling? In...
  2. JakesBrew

    Using confectionery with beer kits (also kit questions)

    Morning all! I've been having a little fun with basic beer kits recently in using that Lowicz fruit syrups in them which have come out lovely. So, I love fizzy sweets - the veggie Colin the Caterpillar fizzy sweets from M&S to be exact - and wanted to shove them in a beer kit. Has anyone else...
  3. C

    St Peters IPA Kit Trouble/Mistakes

    Hi guys, I am new to this community as well as the whole brewing adventure! I bought the St Peters IPA brew kit as my first venture into home brewing. I made a few mistakes which I will detail out here and hope some of you could provide some tips/advice. First of all, I made a very bad mistake...
  4. L

    Wilko IPA advice.

    I'm going to be making my second brew, and I'm using LME kits to start out and experiment with what facilities I have at home. I want to know if my plan is sound or not, I'm still pretty clueless at what I'm doing. I grabbed a £12 IPA kit from my local Wilko when I went out to get a hydrometer...
  5. Jamiekid87

    Cold Crashing in Fermentation Bin

    I am about to cold crash my Mangrove Jacks Juicy IPA after dry hopping. The instructions do not specify this is essential, but after lots of youtube binge watching it got me thinking about cold crashing. I was thinking of adding my beer straight to corny keg and setting a low psi for 24 hours...
  6. SamMurphy1410

    Wheat beer kit advice - first time brewer!

    Hi everyone, this is my first post here, I recently purchased a home brewing kit from Northern Brewer in the UK, it was discounted on beer hawk.com as the recipe kit included with it is unfortunately out of date, I’m just wondering if anyone can recommend a wheat beer kit from any online shop...
  7. Jack135

    Beer enhanced and brewing sugar?

    I recently purchased a young's pilsner kit after seeing a few good words about it on here and I also got some beer enhancer. Today it has arrived and after looking at the instructions online I notice I need 1.5kg of sugar/enhancer. I only have 1kg of enhancer, my mistake, but have some left...
  8. beerfountain

    Possible Disaster

    Hello All I've just barrelled and bottled (only 8 bottles the rest went in my pressure barrel) a kit beer. It was Muntons Old Conkerwood Ale. I had left it in the fermenting bucket for three weeks, it looked like it the yeast had worked and I assumed all was fine. Only thing is, I saved some...
  9. GibonCZ

    Adding bitterness to a extract kit

    Hello ! I bought a simply pale ale kit (1.8 kg LME with some hop extract added) and I want to improve it a little bit :cheers3: I've decided that I will use 1kg of beer enhancer instead of the sugar and add 0.9 kg of H&B LME + I have some citra hops so will dry hope it as well . Not sure how...
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