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Glad I'm not the only one - I tried to get the bung out of one of their lager kegs and it was an absolute *******! Scratched the top a fair bit (not good if it's made of tin) and got the black bit stuck inside the keg. Eventually I gave up and ordered some online.

If you stick it into the recipe maker on BrewToad, you can easily flip through the styles and see what matches up best.

I just syphon straight from the FV into bottles, then prime in the bottle with ordinary sugar. With two pairs of hands you can whizz through very quickly - one person holds the funnel and bowl of sugar, the other scoops, levels and pours in the sugar. My racking cane thing has one of those...

I can absolutely reccommend the Malt Miller for ingredients - has damn near everything grain & hops, good prices and very fast delivery.

You misunderstand - I know how carbonation works! I'm talking about the general conditioning process, where beers mellow out and subtler flavours come through. Perhaps I should have said "aging" instead?

Wouldn't say that too loudly mate, you'll get lynched for implying Australians actually drink the stuff! ;)

When I mini-kegged & bottled some half-batches last week, they had been sitting on the yeast in primary for a little while - probably the best part of three weeks since fermentation stopped. This was partially deliberate as I was worried about diacetyls from slightly too-warm temperatures during...

Yeah, they're very much still getting set up - the premises is a railway arch piled high with buckets of malt and hops! Still they have 90% of the stuff I'd want.

I'd like to give a MASSIVE shout-out to London Beer Lab (http://www.londonbeerlab.com) for finally bringing homebrew supplies to London! They're located in Brixton (zone 2), making actually convenient for us city folk to get our ingredients in person, without paying loads of shipping and most...

Yeah, I've become a lot more lax recently - although quite reasonably so. I think what did it for me was a guy saying "...but then again, I once dropped a shoe in my wort and it turned fine"! :lol: My biggest epiphany was realising that I didn't have to sanitise things before the boil :doh:

Just read something about using "Malta" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_(soft_drink)) instead of DME for a yeast starter. This an American thing, but I remembered we have Supermalt over here - you often see it in corner shops and the imported foods section of supermarkets. Seems to be brewed...

As others have said the glass being bone dry is also important - water has the same "smoothing" effect on those imperfections. That's why when you pour a coke first time it'll fizz right up, but when you top it up it doesn't so much. Funny really, as time goes on glasses get...

Hmm, I've been washing my pints glasses normally (i.e. in the dishwasher with detergent etc.) for years and have never noticed a problem. I understand the logic behind the assertion: for bubbles to be produced, the dissolved CO2 must have a "nucleation site" i.e. a rough patch on which a bubble...

When I use isinglass, I get the ready-mixed sachets from e.g. Youngs - as you say, it can be a pain in the **** dissolving the stuff. With the sachets you just pour it in, gentle stir and leave it for a few days - although I imagine you could probably do it at bottling time as well.

If you're really worried you can add finings after fermentation. I've had great results with isinglass - you can get ready-mixed sachets that you just pour in a few days before you want to bottle.

Neat idea. I'm just chuckling at the idea of bringing one to a party for the ultimate in beer pretension. "Fosters? Oh sure, but I simply must press it with fresh hops first. Let me get my kit, thank goodness Citra are still in season..." :lol:

Brilliant, should just fit. Thanks very much!

Cheers mate! Do you mind if I ask which tap in particular that is?

Has anyone got a mini keg (5L) + CO2 dispensing tap system on the go? If so, would you mind measuring the height of the whole thing with the tap fitted? I'm looking into mini-kegs & tap-a-draft systems as they'd save me a lot of space and tedium of bottling every last pint, but my fridge is a...

After a little thought and some serious goofing off at work, I've come up with a rough idea for how to build one of these myself. 1. Buy cheap coolbox 2. Cut square hole through centre of lid 3. Bolt thin sheet of aluminium to underside of lid, covering as much of the lid as possible. This will...