Recent content by Horlock07

You cannot go wrong with Kwaremont, well actually you can as it doesn't taste 6.6% and thus at at the end of the evening on it invariably your legs don't work. Generally a bloody nice beer.

Thanks for the advice gents, looks like there is a little more thinking to be done....

Not much beyond fermenter and pv to store it. Tends to do 20l batches as that's fermenter capacity? Looking possibly at something like this https://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/acatalog/20-ltr-electric-boiler-with-tap-hop-strainer-and-thermometer.html but are there cheaper options?

Evening As a newbie I am looking to move from kit brewing to extract brewing and then hopefully full grain, so I need a boiler of sorts but not sure where to go with things? Is there a do all option so I can avoid spending a fortune more than once, apologies if it's a stupid question but I am...

Thanks, have repeated the conditioning charge and will see what happens, will test the seal later in the week and if not will be on to the supplier if it won't hold pressure. Pedant point taken. its force of habit to call it a keg so my error, although actually its not been holding pressure...

Thanks, popped the lid off this morning and as suspected there is no pressure in it, looking at the washer under the lid it seems to have pinched up in certain areas and not in others, will reset the washer in the grove, steralise and try again. Thanks, Edit - After sealing again, would it...

Come back to Brewing after a 20 year break, all very different now. Decided to go down the keg route rather than bottles as all the washing and cleaning used to do my head in! Did first brew, a Woodforde Sundew kit and whilst the ferment was slow the gravity ended up where it needed to be...