1st brew down the drain

[eddiegravestock]

hi this is my first post, i've been reading to forums for a few weeks now.
i've just tried my first brew for a long time (geordie Lager). Flat as a pancake with not much of a flavour very watery. is there any thing i could do to improve the flavour or is it just that the kit is watery. and the bottles i used didn't seal very well.
the next one hopefully will have more success (brewmaker Pilsner) which i'm just about to bottle.

[AT]

What type of sugar did you use? i hope you have different bottles this time

[eddiegravestock]

i used standard white sugar as i didn't know about this forum when i started. for my latest one i've used brewing sugar

[louthepoo]

pop a bit of lemonade in and have a shandy, thats what i did with a particularly crappy brew!

[sparky Paul]

Lager without fizz is pretty insipid. I'm not sure what bottles you used, but if you are confident that you could reseal them you could try re-priming them - I would add 1 tsp sugar per 500ml to PET bottles, rouse the yeast in the bottles and place somewhere at fermenting temperature again for a few days.

Apart from that, it the shandy suggestion as above!