Hi Guys

Wild182 · Sep 9, 2010

Hi guys.

Just bottled my first brew last night, took me ages! Washed all the bottles one by one then sterilised them all before bottling.

Interested to see how it turns out, I did a youngs lager kit from Wilkinsons, I already had all the gear in the loft as my dad used to make his own ale years ago.

I left the lager in the primary fermenter for 2 weeks before bottling, still very very cloudy, had a little sample too, very sweet and a weird aftertaste, smelt ok though, hope it sorts itself out in time!

Not sure what to go for next, interested in trying a wine

Cheers. : cheers:

Cussword · Sep 9, 2010

Welcome, why not try any of the supermarket juice wines, they are cheap & very easy to make :thumb:

broadfordbrewer · Sep 10, 2010

Hi Wild182 and welcome to the forum.
I did thew Yongs Lager kit for my first brew and it had the same weird after taste you mention ( imagine its the same anyway). i thought it was a bit 'appley' and some folk on here thought it might be to do with the water where I live. This taste didn't really disappear until 3 months in the bottle, byt which time I only had 3 bottles left.... doh! If yuo can stand the wait, I'd leave it for a good 10-12 weeks. Also, it stayed pretty cloudy throughout so I wouldn't worry about that either.
I've since done the Youngs Bitter and that was really nice. Have moved on to a Tom Caxton kit and have a Breferm Wheat Beer ready to start. Not done any wine, but my dad does one every couple of weeks and they all seem to turn out fine... even the cheapest of kits.... although he's now just brewing whatever hedgerow or scrumped fruit that he can!

All the best

Wild182 · Sep 10, 2010

Cheers guys

Yeah I did read about treating the water after i'd already brewed it, so maybe its that, I'm going to try one next week after its been in the bottle a week just to see how it is, don't think i'll manage to leave the rest 10-12 weeks, think I might try 1 a week to see how its progressing