Brewing equiptment

[mattrickl06]

Back on the original topic.

I bought the Coopers kit a couple of months ago and would say it is well worth it - i doubt you could buy all the components contained in it any cheaper than the bundled package costs.

If and when you progress to BIAB or AG then you can still use all of this stuff that you got in the original kit

 

[graysalchemy]

For those of us who post on here regularly will know that common Newbie question

Has my beer finished,

It has been in the fv for 5 days and the bubbles have stopped can I bottle it

The first answer anyone usually posts is

Have you taken a gravity reading?

Unless you have a stable FG you shouldn't bottle as you may have a stuck ferment which me kick start again when bottled due to agitation of the yeast, resulting in rather dangerous bottle bombs.

The only way for a home brewer to ascertain a stable FG is with a hydrometer. Once a beer has stopped bubbling smaller but significant quantities of CO2 are still produced during the diacetyl rest.

And it has been said above in a Beer fv co2 will leak out anyway and not all go through the airlock making it inacurate. Infact when I started brewing I fitted airlocks and never managed to get them to bubble, so relying on your method certainly wouldn't have worked for me when I started out.

Just because you haven't had a problem in 20 yrs doesn't mean that someone else won't have a problem. I know plenty of people who go up ladders without someone holding them, but I also know someone who is just back at work after 3 months and two broken legs after falling of an unsupported ladder.