Recent content by Djweeble

I don't know if anyone remembers the stuff, but we used to get lots of Wards Bitter in Yorkshire....... oh my god that stuff was awful, with a nasty yeasty sulphur smell...... it didn't get nicknamed Wards Washing Up Water for nothing ! Closely followed by Kimberly Ale from Hardy and...

I just bought six second hand 2KG CO2 fire extinguishers for 30 quid...... should keep my little shed based industry going for a few months at least. I was a little hesitant after reading about people fupping up gauges by freezing them with liquid CO2 straight from the dip tube, but decided to...

I'm already onto that, currently using four Youngs 4 inch neck FV's and kegging 20 litres of every brew into Polykegs, the balance goes into bottles. Got a Kegerator 3/4 finished, sticking with can kits for now, but mainly using 2 can kits and playing around with adding ingredients. Hope to...

I returned to the UK 2 years ago, after working all over the world for the last 30 years. I had a load of stuff in storage in Norway since 2014, and all that has now been shipped over. In amongst it was quite a bit of homebrewing kit I'd totally forgotten about, and inside one of the buckets I...

They just happened to be sat on the bench while I was setting it all up to try, and the pot fits perfect :laugh8: I'm waiting for a friend with a woodworking lathe to turn me a dummy wooden head for the shell, I'll sand it down nicely, and paint it lead grey...... I think it'll really look the...

Thanks for the advice, I'll give that a go, I'll order it tonight. The Howitzer shell isn't a dummy, it's the real thing, been fired obviously, so there's no likelihood of a big bang when drilling holes in it :laugh8: I found it in the road one morning in the centre of Oslo !!! used it as an...

I worked on fridges and freezers for about 3 years...... if the compressor is running a lot or continuously, or it's not getting down to temperature, it's one of two things..... Lack of gas, or weak compressor. It's not worth re-gassing unless you test the compressor beforehand. If the...

Running just on keg pressure for now..... Tomorrow I'll try the gas Now just need an undercounter fridge to fit it into, and a dummy head for the artillery shell (105mm Howitzer). My god, thats a good brew as well...... Best I've ever done..... been left 3 months to condition I think the keg...

Well, the initial assembly works brilliantly, except I get too much head at the moment no matter where I set the adjustment on the tap. I'm running 9ft of 6mm id beer line, with no cooling at the moment as I haven't been able to get hold of a fridge yet...... That said, this seems to be the...

Only 23 minutes to go now...... Then I'll have finished my dinner and I can go out to the shed and get the tools out and start to build my kegerator

Just seen two 19 litre Corny kegs for sale on Farcebook Marketplace for 80 quid. They look like new. Anyone in the Witney area interested ? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1397201933998227/?

Brilliant, thanks Gerryjo athumb..

I'm currently getting the equipment together to build my first Kegerator. I have the gas regulator, the lines, a shedload of empty Polykegs, a Sankey valve fitting, and the "tower" to fit the taps to. Just waiting for a reasonable under counter fridge to come up on Farcebook Marketplace. I'm...

I have one of their 30 bottle wine kits on the go at the moment, and while it's not quite the same, it does say in the printed instructions that fermentation should be complete in about 7 days........ this one's be on the go for 22 days up to now, and is still bubbling !

I would agree with alcohol being the culprit, and even with the methanol removed we did still get dehydrated, though it really did not seem anywhere as bad as with "commercial" stuff, maybe the methanol has a bigger dehydrating effect than the ethanol. One thing I can say with absolute...