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After bottling a beer that hasn't been racked, with just mixed up yeast cake left in the bottom, if I stick my head in the fermentor and take a big whiff, I nearly pass out. I expected to smell some concentrated beer type smells, or something like what the can smelt like before I added it, what I ...

.... I like Corona's. I like Dark Ales, Pale Ale's stouts...Hell, there's not a beer made that I wont have a taste of and (possibly) find something positive about it. Im gonna have a crack at a Corona clone simply because I went to my brother's 21st a couple of weeks ago and assisted in the ...

Lol, the last one of these I cracked open overflowed, and had some serious head, im guessing the bottles just needed a little longer to eat up the carbonation sugar, that might have been the sweetness I was tasting too. Haven't been too impressed with the beer yet though...the lager I made that came ...

What temperature did you ferment at?
Which yeast did you use?
What was your Starting Gravity?
What was your Gravity at bottling?
What did you prime with?
How much did you prime with?
What temperature have your bottles been at since bottling?

18-22, controlled with ice blocks on top of the lid and ...

Howdy.
My first brew was a coopers lager that came with the coopers kit, like many peoples was, and after 2 weeks it was drinkable.
I've just finished testing it again and it been upgraded from drinkable to enjoyable at just over 3 weeks I think.
At the same time as testing the first brew I decided ...

If you add a new beer onto the last beers yeast cake, would you expect some fermentation action straight away?

I did a blackrock EIPA with brewcraft #15 1kg and brewcraft ldm 500g, safale s04 yeast. SG 1080 FG 1011
After bottling that I added on top of it a CPA with 1kg brew enhancer 2 and 500g ...

When you add another beer on top of a previous yeast cake, and the fermentor is...well its still got the last beer in it so im fairly confident its sanitary, can you simply bottle your beer open the lid and put the next brew in?

Actually my hydrometer was cracked when I bought my coopers home brew kit, and I had no desire for the plastic bottles really either, except for maybe if I do a ginger beer or alco lemonade or something. And the airlock had these plastic wings things hanging off it that would have been better if it ...

I left the sample tube sitting on the bench for a while, came back and the beer just looked cloudym albeit very cloudy but not abnormal, the bottom of the tube had like 1cm of sediment, it looked like yeasties.

Actually...Im thinking if there's nobody wiser to tell me my beer is stuffed/infected, im going to assume that when I was putting the tap in the fermentor and the lil plastic filter in the tap, perhaps the little filter is pointing down instead of up and sucking from the bottom bringing all the gunk ...

I've got a blackrock east india pale ale down with 1kg brewcraft #15 500g light dry malt, and safale s04 yeast, Taking a hydrometer reading after about 7 days, smelt good, tasted awesome ( had to stop myself from drinking the whole sample, though I did take a second sip ) But it had lots and lots of ...

They are talking about a ton of time ..a month or more.
Two weeks is very normal...browse the site.

Well, from what I have read, and I've read pretty much everything on this site, people who favour racking their beer do it to get it off the yeast cake and make a clearer better tasting beer ...

svyturys wrote:If you leave the fermenter to sit for a week after the finish of fermentation then you are going to get a far better result.

I've also read that if you leave it sit on the yeast cake it can get some bad flavours through it.

Well, I just bottled brew number one, the lager that came with the kit, kit yeast and 1kg brewing sugar. OG of 1040 and FG of 1011 constant for 24 hours, only 4 days in the fermentor. The 'yeast cake' was very thin visibly through the side of the fermentor, and by the time I had picked up the near ...

I've yet to bottle my first brew and already have the ingredients/plan for my second and third, I think this one will be my fourth its only natural progression.

Couple of queries, whats yellowbox honey and where do you get it?

This brew would be my first experimentation with hops, whats the newbie ...

The other one had a slight variation...I substituted saflager s-23 yeast for the one under the lid and brewed at 12-14C.

What method did you use to keep the temperature down? Or is it just cold where you live?

Mmmmkay. The kit beer was bubbling away nicely the morning after I put it in motion ...

Ok, So I did a little bit of home brewing with my uncle a few years back at the time it was more his interest than mine, out of 6 brews there was only one that I found enjoyable...possibly owing to the fact that we barely had them in the bottles before they hit the fridge, and barely cold before ...