Woodfordes Sundew Real Ale Making Day #89 Homebrew Beer Wine Spirits

Hello folks & welcome to my channel covering home brewing beer and wine making.
I am new to homebrew and wine making, just been brewing for over a year now, but though I would give it a try & will be doing various kits, unboxing new equipment, sanitizing & bottleing. So all aspects of home brewing.
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[@andrewold7794]

Yeast stirring mood ! Love it . Great vid mate . Shall try my first brew in the Sumer hopefully .

[@lesgill8490]

Woodefordes home brew kits are really good, i have done a few, and put some extra malt in them, to enhance the flavours.

[@ddoubletap3815]

Very nice Les, I look forward to trying this one...

[@owensjl65]

Hi, I made this kit as my first one four years ago. It was good. Enjoy!

[@ddoubletap3815]

Nice one, how did it turn out? Any good?

[@owensjl65]

DDoubleTap a nice light golden ale.

[@ddoubletap3815]

Nice one, look forward to giving it a try :)

[@CountDrunkula]

That kit gets loads of hate on forums so it'll be good to hear how it turns out.

[@ddoubletap3815]

Looks good so far, will try it in a few days as it's been in the bottles over a month now...fingers crossed..

[@CountDrunkula]

Hopefully it's a belter and they're all being miserable sods. Had the b and M IPA last night and I really thought it would be great but it was ok at best even with a spilt and tweaks. Two of us reviewing and it was a 5 or 6 out of 10. I'll get it again if I can find it for 6 quid. If you get some make it up to the full 11.5 litres as its 5.6% at that. If you shortbrew it can get to 7 percent really easily and has alcohol burn. But don't swap out the yeast as it's a rebranded Mangrove Jack's kit and they have really decent yeasts.
Crack on, mate.

[@ddoubletap3815]

Sounds like some good brews there mate :)

[@CountDrunkula]

For finings buy a cheap box of powdered gelatin. You only use about half a teaspoon so it's dirt cheap. Search for 'fining beer gelatin' for instructions. Just don't tell any whining vegetarians who might try your beer. Chitosan is made from shellfish shells so don't tell them when you use that, either.
Can you put your hydrometer in plain water and take a reading to check it's calibrated right. It should sit at 1.000. This kit usually starts off at 1.042, not 52, and a lot of time you say your beers finish at 1.020 which with the strength of beers you do means that the fermentation is stuck, so maybe the hydrometer is off. The other thing could be that you've not brewed to 23 litres, but it would be closer to 18 litres to get it up to 1.052.

[@ddoubletap3815]

nice tip will give that one a try, cheers :)