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[colin_p]

Or attempts at homebrewing.

I've done quite a few 'kits' which I'm happy with and have just got a batch of Woodfords Wherry in the bubbling bin. I'll leave it there for a week then bottle it, should be ready for Christmas.

On here it is going to be considered one of three ways I'd think (all meant in the nicest possible way of course);

1, A bit council, but things have come a long way since your Dad had a go back in '83 with a kit from Boots.
2, A bit weird-beard
3, A bit hipster

Does anyone else spend ages sterilsing things, tediously decanting, bottling and capping amber coloured fluids for the enjoyment thereof?

Any recommendations and tales to tell?

[227bhp]

Plenty of reading matter here when you've sobered up: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[C0ffin D0dger]

Yep, fair few home brewers on here. Nothing wrong with it, I just see it as a hobby with benefits.

You might want to think about leaving your Wherry for a bit longer than a week in the fermenter. It will have barely finished by then and the yeast won't have had time to clean up after. You'll get a better tasting brew by leaving it for at least 2 weeks. I do this as a minimum and if a kit has dry hop additions I'll only add those once the two weeks is up and bottle / keg 2-4 days after that. Sometimes it gets as long as three weeks if I'm busy with other stuff and don't get round to it but never any concerns over this.