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no i have a little beer fridge i got from kmart last year (Homemaker brand), holds 24 stubbies, i have the batch of brew sitting in crates in my computer room and i just chucked 2 in the fridge a few weeks ago with the intention of trying them, but now i know the brew has turned out alright i'll ...

UPDATE!

I had left two of them sitting in the back of my beer fridge when I started this topic, and just opened one about 20 mins ago, its carbonated, not a fantastic head on it, but not too bad, but plenty of bubbles and life in it, and surprisingly it doesnt taste much unlike coopers pale ale ...

thanks for the comments, no, i only ever do basic kit brews (im lazy), ive done maybe 4 or 5 brews before this one and never had that problem, i was always able to sample them after a few weeks, but thats encouraging to know that all is not lost!

Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone has any ideas to where i went wrong with this one,

ive had a tin of canadian blonde and a packet of BE1 sitting in the kitchen for about 8 months and pitched it about 2 months ago, did everything as normal, sanitised all the gear, the bottles (CPA stubbies), put ...

mould on the outside doesn't mean the beer's infected, but it is far from ideal. no offence intended, but it'd be a very good idea to clean up everything you use for brewing - you're playing with fire with those sort of conditions.

thanks, i was away for almost the full 2 weeks, there must have ...

thanks guys, ill draw a sample tomorrow and check it out, theres mould on the outside on the fermenter, but shouldnt be a problem hey?

Put down a Coopers European Lager kit 2 weeks ago, now what i do with my brews, is i put the fermenter into a kinda shallow laundry basket, thats half filled with water (i add icepacks and ice to the water after to get the initial temperature down)

So here I am, filling up my brew after adding the ...

the milton i got last time was in tablet form, and it dissolves in water, says it takes about an hour for the water its in to become sterile, youre only meant to use 2 tablets per 2 litres of water, but i chucked in loads of them

tried it, didnt taste too bad, very very cloudy though and didnt retain head, im guessing it will improve over time?

just another quick question, i bottled this brew 12 days ago, do i really need to wait the 14 days before i can try it and know if it worked out ok? or am i right to have a sneaky one now and get a good idea whether its yay or nay?

let us know how it works out, id love to try a hoegaarden brew!

good stuff, fingers crossed ill make a drinkable brew this time!

thanks for the help!

all bottled now, the temp actually got down to about 16, 12 at one stage, but generally stayed between the 16 to 18 mark for most of the 2 weeks.

how long before they start exploding, if they do. i have them in covered boxes for now

Rightio, its been about 2 weeks since i pitched it, hydrometer reading today says 1015, thats down from 1034 when i pitched it

Does that seem right to bottle?

thanks, Brian.

might try that chris, just water and bleach? how much is too much?

thanks, so just rinse and scrub, but after that should i make up a spray with the milton to sanitise, or should i soak all the bottles in solution?

I think my coopers mexican brew is just about ready to be bottled, ive got about 70 used carlton draught stubbies sitting here, but they havent so much as been rinsed, they probably been sitting from 2 - 3 months.

I have milton which might work for sanitising the bottles, but im not sure the best ...

id say 20 - 22 would be the most likely, i wonder if i took out of the water would it stay at that now?

the only reason it was 28 was cos that was how hot it was when i sealed it, i need to find something to bulk cool water in after adding the fermentables in future i think

thanks for the help, ive just done that, also noticed the temp has come down from 28 to 22 in about 5 hours, is it risky to keep on aiming to get the temp down to 15 as you suggested earlier? or let it settle sooner rather than later and just go with it at whatever it settles at?

I am not sure what milton is...

I would still put some sanitiser in the ice bath, the spray of sanitiser is just a precaution and is in no way fool proof!

ok, would the coopers sanitizer be right to chuck in? what about the brigalow sodium metasomethingsulphate?

milton is some sort of baby ...