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I am also always thinking of new ways to cut the bottling time down. I use longies but still find it a laborious task. I am experiementing with 2 ways to cut down time:

1. Employing my 5 year old son - He fills the bottles then I cap them and crate them. He fills one in about the same time it takes ...

The temp changed as a result of the atmospheric temperature, went down a few degrees over night but didn't get below 21 or 22. I haven't stirred anything up and the fermenter has been still.

Airlock smell is unusually fruity, no off smells. Its a Coopers Pilsener mix, with a HBS Megabooster Sugar/Light malt mix, plus 200g of dextrose added, and using the american ale 56 yeast also from HBS. Was pitched at about 24 degrees. Was slow to start as temp went to about 22 dgrees overnight on ...

Hi,

My latest brew was bubbling along as usual, went through the froth on the top stage then cleared as usual, all the time the airlock was bubbling.

Then overnight another layer of froth had formed on the top of the brew. Its still kind of bubbling but I haven't experienced the second froth stage ...

Thanks Wassa. I'm feeling thristy reading your reply

Thanks Biermeister

Newbie fears subsiding

I have just put my first tooheys dark ale brew down after several (increasingly successful) amber brews. On advice of homebrew shop I went with their stout booster mix of sugars/dark malt/light malt, rather than another one they had for dark ales which was a mixture of sugars and light malt only.

I ...

Most of my questions have been answered by trawling through the forums 50 or so pages but a couple remain unanswered:

* Yeast - Can I throw in the yeast sachets from 2 different cans of Coopers Wort? I had a left over little yeast pack from a Coopers Pilsener can and wanted to add it to the Coopers ...