Hi All Newbie here

[Spudhead94]

Welcome to the forum.
Try this
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/...de-to-brewing-your-own-beer-from-a-kit.57526/
Don't waste you money on 'carbonation drops'. Table sugar is fine: it's cheap and priming doses can be easily adjusted to suit your beer.
And if you are short of bottles any used PET bottle in good condition will do provided it's held a fizzy drink.

I found my sediment went down by a good 3/4

 

[Spudhead94]

Trying to build up my glass bottles one sip at a time. Yes watching loads of you tubes.

Quick questions why do people move the beer from the FV to an new FV just before bottling?. Am looking at a FV with a bottle filler on but looks a bit weldy (how do you keep clean) but cant find a wand that fits to the tap.

They have a bottling bucket because you can add your priming sugar and bottle from there, if you bottled from the primary FV it would be riddled with sediment.

 

[terrym]

......, if you bottled from the primary FV it would be riddled with sediment.....

First using a bottling bucket is optional.
Next you can package straight from the primary FV. I do it and so do many others. The target is to get clear or nearly clear beer by allowing enough time or crash cooling and ensuring you leave the sediment at the bottom of the FV. This applies whether or not you use a bucket. If you don't allow the beer get clear in the primary FV, and use a bucket, it will still be cloudy in the bucket.
One way of helping the beer to clear is to rack off to second vessel after the primary has finished. Again this step is optional.

 

[lamby]

Thanks again for the help only going to use first FV then bottle.

Questions
1. What is crash cooling and how is it done?.
2. A mate as given me the old (guess how old) boots immersion heater from an old brew kit. It still gets warm but not sure if i should use it. The brew will be in the garage so suspect will need some kind of heating
. Looks like the Electrim 74Immersion heater https://brew2bottle.co.uk/collections/heating-equipment/products/electrim-75-immersion-heater but does not have a temperature control.

Thanks again for the advice.

 

[terrym]

Thanks again for the help only going to use first FV then bottle.

Questions
1. What is crash cooling and how is it done?.
2. A mate as given me the old (guess how old) boots immersion heater from an old brew kit. It still gets warm but not sure if i should use it. The brew will be in the garage so suspect will need some kind of heating
. Looks like the Electrim 74Immersion heater https://brew2bottle.co.uk/collections/heating-equipment/products/electrim-75-immersion-heater but does not have a temperature control.

Thanks again for the advice.

Crash cooling or cold crashing is where the FV is put into a cold place at the end of the primary so that the yeast drops quicker since it basically goes to sleep. Many people use a fridge to do this. If you dont have a fridge just find the coldest place you have, which is difficult in mid summer but easy in October to March.
You really need some form of temperature control. I use a water bath like this in my garage. Cheap, easy to set up and dismantle.
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/how-to-set-up-a-water-bath-for-your-fv.66407/

 

[Banbeer]

Some people syphon from one FV to another (called a secondary FV) to leave the yeast in the first FV so it is cleaner when it goes into the secondary if that makes sense. I syphon straight from the FV it has brewed in using 'The little bottler' available in good homebrew shops or online.