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Been a while since I visited here, but just had to give a thumbs up to a new kit that I am supping as I type. There is a little outlet in Cheltenham called Pops Homebrew (no connection with me, honest!), which has started selling its own custom-made kits under the banner "Forester's Arms Ales"...

Real quick question this. I am about to transfer a batch from initial fermentation bucket to a pressure barrel. Have run out of dextrose to prime it, but find that I have a packet of "light spray malt" lying around that I understand can substitute. My only question is: do you use the same...

Hi I have just bought a kit of Muntons "Autumn Blush" cider from their Premium Gold range. Opening the box, I find that both ends of both cans are bowed out as if from a build-up of internal pressure. They remain sealed (although I may have problems opening them with my particular can...

Fairly simple problem, but being a newbie I haven't had this before: I bought a plastic 40 gallon keg, and the berk who sold it to me put the rubber washer on the pressure release valve on the wrong side of the brass lip, so that the brass lip was flush with the entry hole to the keg instead of...

Sorry folks but I am new to this and have lost my instructions. I am just about to put 23 litres of ale into a pressure barrel, and just need to know the mass in grams of brewing sugar that would be about right to prime it. Help? I am guessing about 250 grams thanks

My kit instructions advise me to "hydrate the yeast" in a sterile cup of warm water (30 to 40 degrees) before pitching it into the wort (at below 25 degrees). Eh? What's that all about? Anything wrong with stirring the dried yeast directly into the wort? That is what I did before, but I am...

Just started out with some beer brewing (I think this is going to get a lot more popular in the economic climate over the next couple of years). Decided to go with 2 x 25 litre barrels, so that hopefully I should never be in the unfortunate position of not having something on tap at any given...