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Still impressed how the last batch is tasting better each time.

As warra48 mentions, The strong flavour overtones you're noticing in a VB would possibly be the PoR hops?

My googling comes up with this quote from the CSR website.

CSR SMART is sugar blended with a tiny amount of sweeteners. It contains 99.5% sugar with 0.5%
sweeteners – 0.25% Acesulphame Potassium (950*) and 0.25% Aspartame (951*). *Food additive number

99.5% real sugar, not sure what the yeasties ...

Many thanks to Wassa for this recipe, sounds great, I've just put one down, except I only had 375gm of Yellow Box available, and kept the cascade hops at 15gm. Hopefully should turn out very similar even though it has less honey.

Thanks for the advice everyone, I ended up pitching another yeast which fired up fermentation again, by the time it dropped to 1.014, and stablised, it just tasted yeasty and crap (seriously, I wouldn't even let my ex-wife drink it). It went down the sink. lesson learned, cleaned the fermenter and ...

In reply to the previous two posts:

You haven't cocked it up.
This happens to all of us, sooner or later.

You could pitch another yeast. Rehydrate the yeast in some cooled boiled water, about 50 mil.
Once the yeast is rehydrated, and showing some bubbles on the surface, pitch the yeast.

A ...

I gave the brew a gentle stir yesterday afternoon, enough to ensure the white sediment at the bottom all but disappeared, 24hrs later, still no airlock activity and the hydrometer is still on 1.020.

Is it safe to pitch another yeast in there? I have another ale yeast (same brewcraft one as the ...

Thanks warra, would it be worth pitching another yeast, or would there be enough life left in the existing yeast?

In retrospect, it did taste very weak as far as an alcohol content goes, so I guess there's still some fermentaion to go, I'll sanitise and give it a stir tonight.

much appreciated ...

I have a brew fermenting, or at least I think it's fermented, its a Brewcraft Newcastle Brown, with 1 kg of malt and regular yeast that came with the can.
Put it down on Tuesday 14/07/09 , it fermented vigorously for a few days, then settled down and hasn't had air lock activity for close to a week ...