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Yeah I have a chest freezer with 4 cornies and 4 taps. My bottle lasted me afew years also. I tend to carbonate the beer for a week at set psi eg 20 for an ale and 30 for lager/cider. Take off gas and leave for few days to settle and then drink when u want. The longer its left the better the...

I now have 5 cornies and I would never go back to the plastic kegs. They are great and also I think the beer tastes better :grin:

I have 2 of the young's ones from a few years ago with no air locks and I sealed them and had no problems as of yet but maybe im doin it wrong and should leave them open slightly?? Mine bulge a little on the lid just fermentation but then go back done once finished

Thanks for the info. I guess ill have to keep an eye on it. I was thinking of adding the hops after fermenting stage when I transfer to next fv for clearing for a week

I have had this kit today as a present :) I use a brew fridge and a youngs sealed fermenting bucket, not had issues with it as of yet but reading previous posts I see it goes off very vigorous but I don't have an airlock in it and being a sealed lid will I have issues with this kit blowing off...

I'd better get brewing again as been a while. I got a woodfordes headcracker, bull dog double ipa and geordie scottish export. Has anyone tried these?

Ive just transferred my sundew into 2nd fv for clearing in shed and started off a tom caxton's real lager in brew fridge

I've had this in the corny for afew months and its a very nice drink

I now ferment for 2 weeks and then transfer into a 2nd fv for a week at a lower temp. I have found this helps with clearing quicker

I brought a milestone kit once for £10 which was a year out of date so rehydrated the yeast first to make sure it was ok then did the kit and it came out fine and saved myself £12.

Ive recently done this kit along with the lions pride. The crusader is a nice easy drinking light ale. The lions pride is a darker ale and nice also. When mates have tried them both and they prefer the lions pride. Ive also seen good reviews on the green man and dark galleon which ive not tried

I have had same issues at times. I used the old boots capper then brought the wilko one. Some of the bottles are great like magners but as u say the wychwood are dodgy. It is annoying losing some beer at the end process and also worrying when they smash

Yeah I was thinking the enhancer might not be best for cider. Thanks for the reply. Will probably get it goin during the week. Cheers

Im thinking of getting this kit goin as date up this month. It says 1.3kg of preferably brewing sugar. I have 1kg of brewing sugar and 1kg beer enhancer. Do u think it wud be ok chucking both in or should I get another bag of brewing sugar or even use 0.3kg granulated sugar? Thanks

I don't know matey. I used the hop tea as it was easy to use. Just boil kettle and fill mug with boiling water and then add tea bag for 10 mins. Then add it all to your fv. I was told to add it at around day 5 after main fermentation had slowed down and will add more aroma to the brew but I...

wherry is a great kit (one of my favorites). I did my last one with a hop tea bag of ekg. I added this when I transferred into a 2nd fv for clearing and left it for 5 days then transferred to corny. Its very nice and added more aroma to it but I think next time ill add more as it was only 12g

Happy new year everyone

Thanks for the replies. Yeah ill have to keep an eye on it. He said he used same finnings as last batch and no sulphites. He used wgj,rgj,pineapple, banana juice so nothing unusual. He said no one else had a reaction to the wine. It's a strange one

Never thought of that. I will ask him about finnings and sulphites. Thanks

Cheers for the replies. Im not sure what he has put in it. Ill speak to him next week at work. Yeah was itchy and had a headache also. The rash calmed down after a few hours