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I intend to barrel my barley wine ale. Should i use light or medium spraymalt for barley wine ? How much spraymalt should i use for a 5 gallon pressure barrel ? Im sure you should use more spraymalt than say cornsugar

Whats your favourite beer kit ? I will start it off. Has to be muntons conkerwood for me

Do not use speckled hen blttles for your beer. I had 3 crack on me whilst capping them. Every other type of bottle has been fine so i know its not me.. they must have a weak neck or something,, just wasted 3 bottles of precious beer .does anyone know any other bottles to avoid using? :hmm:

Currently brewing coopers ginger ale, its been in primary for 6 days so decided to ttake a hydrometer reading, its nearly ready to bottle. I had a little taster and i dont think there is enough ginger flavour in it. I decided to spice it up and added 100g of morrisons crushed ginger which comes...

Hi everyone. I usually bottle but this time im going to barell ale. Is the priming sugar the ame amount as if you were bottling ? I normally use around 4 ounces for an ale if i was bottling. I was going to use 6 ounces for the 5 gallons in the barell. What is your advice folks ?. Also once in...

Anyone used this to sterilise bottles. It is a no rinse steriliser. If its good enough for baby bottles surely its good enough for beer bottles?. It is available in any supermarket. What do you think ?

I want to prime my bottles with muntons light spraymalt instead of using sugar etc. How much spraymalt should I use for batch priming 5 gallons of ale? And how much woud I use to batch prime lager?

Anyone else use this method. Put bottles in dishwasher, replace tablet with cleaner and steriliser, put on highest temp, voila bottles cleaned, sterilised and dried in one go ready for beer to be put in to them. I use this method everytime and works a treat.

Whilst removing my airlock from my fv before taking lid of so the water in the airlock didn't get sucked back into the fv the unthinkable happened, the rubber grommet on top of the fv split in 2 and fell :cry: into the beer and sunk to the bottom. Will the 5 gallon batch be ruined now? The...

How long does beer keep in a pressure barrel ? Its been in there for 4 weeks now without me touching it to let it clear and codition. Can I just drink from it occasionally a I don't fancy drinking 40 pints in one session

If brewing beer can u add extra sugar to increase the alcohol and how much? I brew the kits with 2 cans of malt extract which require no sugar to be added untill the bottling or barrell stage

I have just racked my wherry ale from my primary fv into a youngs pressure barrell. Can anyone tel me how long I have to keep the barell at room temp to fully carbonate before moving it somewhere cooler to clear. I normally bottle but thought I would try a pressure barell. This time. Does it...

I want to make some brewferm framboos which is the single can raspberry kit. This makes 12 litres. I want to make 24 litres, can I simply buy 2 cans and make it al in one 25 litre bin? And can I double up on yeast and priming sugar which would make it 200 grammes for carbonating insted of 100...

What sizes do beer bottles come in. I was led to believe they are 12, 16 and 22 oz. The bottles I have are 500 ml which are sold inmost homebrew shops. 500ml doesn't equal 12, 16. Or 22 ounces. I purely want to know for measuring purposes. Any help most welcome

Can you leave brewbelts on the fermentation bin for the whole duration of the primary fermentation ? Or will they increase. Temps by to much if used 24/7. I would normally only use them at night time untill I wake up in morning then switch it off but the air temp is low at the moment causing my...

I normally bottle my homebrew straight from the primary fermenter but this time I'm planning to rack it to another 5 gallon bin and add the priming sugar in there instead of the half a teaspoon per bottle. Which I normally do. Can. Anyone tell me how much sugar to put in the bin? Every time I...

How do you dry your siphon when you wash it after syphoning beer. I still have little specs of water in mine which I'm worried might turn into bacteria. Is it best just to change syphon hose every time you make a new batch of homebrew or sterlise syphon and just don't rinse it so the hoses...

IAnybody used finnings when making beer? I was going to but read somewhere that they kill the yeast meaning there wouldn't be any carbonation in the beer. Any advice or should I not bother using them? I was going to put youngs finnings in my primary fermenter when fermentation has stoped then...

Just tried a bottle of woodfordes wherry that has been carbonating in the botte at room. For 7 days and what a result. A little cloudy still but moving to garage which will help the clarity. Poured the bottle into a pint glass and got a superb creamy head which stayed all the time untill I had...

Another dilema I'm afraid. I was wanting to use an autosyphon from my primary fermentor straight into bottles but there is no tap on it like my old trusty manual syphon meaning I can't stop the flow of beer from bottle to bottle unless I use my thumb. Can I fit a tap on it say with a cable tie...