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Hi All, I just have a quick question around priming/carbonating in kegs. I have been given a 10 Gallon aluminium keg from a brewery, complete with the pickup tube, CO2 canister (but no regulator), Maxi Chiller & Tap. So far I have only ever bottled fizzy beer and stored stouts in bags for my...

**For Sale** 2x Beer Crates, 40x New 500ml Glass Bottles & 40x Gold Crown Caps, just £25! The plastic Beer Crates are very strong, lightweight and stackable. Other combinations available below. • 40x Gold Crown Caps = £1 • 1x Empty Crate = £8 • 2x Empty Crates =...

Scoping out the Homebrew sales potential. Who would be interested in 2x Plastic Stackable Beer Crates, 40x Brand New 500ml Brown Glass Bottles & 40x Crown Caps for £25? Or 1x Crate, 20x Bottles & 20x Crown Caps for £15?......thoughts please?

For sale, is a full set up for All Grain brewing. 44 Litre Cool Box Mash Tun with Tap Hop Bazooka Copper Sparge Pipework Large Hot Liquor Tank with a Burco Tap Gas ring & hoses to use with the HLT A Copper Wort Chiller with a hose pipe connection for easy use of water flow 6 containers, with...

Hi All :) I have recently purchased the new Grainfather and Connect Box. I did my first brew last night and it went really well! Question is, how do people clean their 'all in one' systems. I didn't have any cleaner/steriliser to hand, so I rinsed all the crud off with a hose pipe, then filled...

I have saved up and finally bought the new Grainfather & Connect Box, so I need some simple recipe ideas please for my 1st all grain brew please J The below ingredients are what I currently have, so can anyone recommend a nice brew please? I would also need to know how many litres of water to...

Morning everyone :) I've finally got my hands on a large converted mash tun, sparge bar, wort chiller and a 30L tea urn/Boiler (plus LOADS of homebrew kit equipment) so hopefully everything I need to crack on with my first brew! I've read through the recipes page on here and it all looks...

Morning all :) I have been brewing kits of ale/lager and making lots of wine & cider from scratch for a year now and loved every minute of it. So I think it's time to move to all grain. My question....do I start with buying individual equipment such as Cool Box Mash Tun, Tea Urn/Boiler etc (if...

Hi All! So I've been lucky enough to make a new friend who runs/works in a brewery and he's kindly giving me his empty bottles, near enough every week. I now have nearly 300 empty 500ml brown glass bottles, all stacked neatly in milk crates, in the shed. Annoying though, when it comes to...

Some advise please :) I've had a Better Brew Czech Pilsner kit brewing for 2 weeks now and it started at 1.048. If I leave it to ferment out to 1.008 like the instructions say, it's going to be more than 5%. The gravity is now 1.016, which I calculate to be 4.2%. How can i stabilise the brew now...

Good afternoon fellow brewers! So I have just got my hands on a used Angram Hand Pull and would love to get this set up in the garden bar! I brew ale, lager and cider all from kits at the moment, and just bottle each brew. I have never stored brews in a keg, barrels etc before. So, what is...

Hi Guys! I have made various wines using RGJ, AJ and then adding other flavours. I really want to start making wine from jam, fresh fruit etc. What is the typical process for this please? Am I right in thinking to boil the fruit (bananas for example) for like 30 minutes, then add them to...

Evening peeps! Can anyone recommend/suggest a nice wine or turbo cider recipe using these please? I also have Tannin, Pectolase & brewing sugar, but no nutrient or glycerin.

So I started a Bulldog Yule Brew Ale kit off on Sunday 2nd Oct and its been bubbling away quite nicely. The kit instructions said it would be ready in either 8-10 days or when a hydrometer reading is 1.008 or less. Now I never stick to instructions and tend to keep a brew in the FV for 2...

Evening guys, I recently bought and brewed a Better Brew Czech Pilsner Kit. I got this hoping it would be a really fizzy, crisp golden lager......but is it actually a lager or an ale? I fermented it for 10 days, then primed each bottle and it's been bottled for 10 days now. Stuck one in the...

So, I have an empty FV and 40 bottles available. Plus I'm going on holiday in a few days and would like to get a new brew going soon! Does anyone have any recommendations for what to brew next? I'm still new to brewing and so far I've made 20 pints on Wilko Ale, 40 pints of Better Brew Czech...

I currently have 24L of TC fermenting and has been going for 7 days. The airlock was bubbling away every 10 seconds a couple of days ago, but just noticed that I haven't heard it for a while.....so I checked the bucket and the lid is on fully, but it's almost warped slightly and there's a tiny...

So I have just been given 32 500ml Kopparberg bottles and cleaned/sterilised them all.... I have just been told that these aren't any good for home brew use because they don't cap properly? Are they totally useless to me then, or have people managed to find a use for them in the past...

So, I have taken on board loads of advice from people regarding recipes for a sweet TC (aiming for a Kopparberg taste, but much higher ABV). The bulk of the below plan came from Evolram & Roddy, so thank you :) I have combined a few together, due to the limited access to ingredients. What...

So I've currently got 20 bottles of ale fermenting and 6 bottles of rose wine fermenting. Just realised I may have made a massive rookie mistake! The ale kit instructions said to add 3 litres of warm water, stir well and then add 7 litres of cold water. This 10 litres of water all came out...