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Ok the beer has cooled down considerably today. I wrapped it in a cold towel and put a fan on it. Can i reseal the lid now? Thanks

Ok lid has been disconnected and is resting ontop of the bucket. should I leave the airlock in its place?

When you say loosen the lid, do you mean remove it from being completely sealed and then just have it rest on top of the bucket loosely? Krausen started going up the airlock again so I think I am going to have to do this. When should I reconnect the lid?

I just poured a bunch out. I removed the airlock in the bath tub and let a whole bunch out without actually removing the lid. I think this should stop it from blowing and I am working on bringing the temperature down with a fan and some wet towles. Busy freezing up some waterbottles for tomorow...

Ok the Airlock is flooding with Krausen again. I may need to try and drain this a bit. It didnt last 5 minutes. Gonna put the glass back on the top I think and leave like that for a while

Ok, I didnt have a tube. Ive cleaned off the top of the lid using sanitied water then ive carefully removed the airlock. I then put a sanitixed glass upside down over the whole so nothing went in. Sanitized the airlock and replaced? I feel the issue has to do with temperature. Today was a...

Hi There, I started a batch of beer yesterday and I must have overfilled the fermenting tank. I do not have a secondary fermenter to transfer everything into. I am not sure what to do. Can I open the fermenter and pour some out? Should I try an salvage this or is it done? It is still...

Ok seeing as I dont have a bottling bucket, the next option would be to put sugar into each bottle, how much sugar should go into a 440ml bottle for IPA? Thanks for all the help!

Thanks very much, I will actually be bottling straight out of my Coopers mini brewery, so can i just add the sugar water to the main tank? And I had a look at that calculator, thats a bit too complicated for me honestly as I dont know what to put in for desired level of Co2. How do I know how...

Hey guys I want to bottle my coopers IPA today but I think its time i move away from the carbonation drops. What are my options as far as doing this now. My understanding is I can boil up some sugar with water and add that to my tank, stir it a little then bottle, otherwise I can insert...

ok thanks guys, how much longer should I leave it? its been a week.

Hey guys, the top of this beer looks a bit weird, the beer is wheat beer, the coopers brand but it has what looks like yeast sitting on the top. This is my first brew in this take, it was a bit tough getting the yeast in with such a small opening, and the bubbler on top is going non stop...

Is it cool to bottle into these? I got them from a plastic distributor near me. They're 1l and made food grade as far as I'm aware. I got 22 of them for less than 1/3rd the price i was paying for 48 glass bottles. Thanks http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/milk_bottle250.jpg

ok thanks very much guys!

Hi guys So I started 2 brews yesterday, 1 in my coopers micro brewery and the other in a new tank i bought with an airlock. The beer in the airlock looks good, its been about 24 hours, the airlock is bubbling nicely and there seems to be a thick layer of gunk(im not sure what this stuff...