Recent content by jondread

Glass. I wouldn't touch plastic bottles. Wilkinsons do some great swing-top bottles which are perfect for lagers if you didn't want to invest in crown caps and a capper. A keg is always handy though, you may want to do an ale in the future :) Also on a side note, my first brew was a Wilkos Hoppy...

Yep I completely agree, kegging is better for ales :)

Congratulations :) its hard to stay away from it, eh?!

Well I did try with a tube, about a foot long, easy enough to reach in the bottom of the glass, but it still foams like mad. The beer does taste fine it just takes me a while to pour it, I've resorted to scooping the head off with a spoon. Bloody good head retention though with this one.

I normally split mine too, this time I was only bottling 4 a couple of weeks after initially kegging though, to take them to a party. my bottled beers don't usually come out flat, but they do taste a lot different, and somewhat yeasty. I think they just need a lot longer to mature.

Oh and I do use a tube attached to the tap when bottling, to minimize any oxygen. But since initial racking it has carbonated like mad, and it had a month in the primary. Just too much pressure in this little keg...

That makes sense, I didn't realize that it would oxidize that quickly though. Wow! Its my keg I think, I know a workman should never blame his tools but its definitely my keg - because its a small 20 pint one, there is just too much pressure in it which makes it foam like mad all the time. I did...

So whats up with this? I saw some guy on youtube saying that he bottled some beers to take to a competition a few months after he had kegged his brew. I was going to a party on Saturday so I bottled a few bottles of my Burton Bridge from the keg, its been in there about 3 weeks and it tastes...

I think the keg I'm using is just a bit too small, its a 20 pint keg. The pressure is really unbalanced. I'm half way through it now and its still foaming like crazy... I injected a canister of co2 into it too and it sounded like it was gonna explode. :hmm:

Just one bulb full, but it was foaming like mad before I'd gassed it whilst it was naturally carbonated. This morning it was in a warm living room, and I moved it into our cold kitchen just before lunch, pulled the first pint 6 hours later. Just pulled another half pint and its still foaming...

100% sure? I poured a pint out and it stopped rocking back and forth and being all egg shaped. But then it was dribbling out and I stopped it before it did the infamous gulp of air back up inside it? Gassed it back up and its bouncing on the spot again.

Just pulled a sample pint from an ale I kegged last week. It seems to have carbonated fine as there is a lot of foam coming out of the tap. Almost all of it is foam actually, but the strange thing is, after one pint it just totally lost all pressure. Yet when I gas it back up again the pressure...

Would anyone recommend dried fruit to be added to a Woodefordes Wherry. I am trying to go for a sort of Wychwood Brewery Bah Humbug style brew with fruity flavors and cinnamon, like a winter warmer. Does the fruit have to be added to the wort, or to the FV at some stage during fermentation...

I have one of these ready for Christmas... I can't wait! Mine went in the FV for a month and I sampled a bit when I kegged it.... was fantastic!!! I wish I had picked more of these up from Wilko now when they were on offer. I will definitely be doing another one of these though, was thinking of...

I'm no expert but I have seen people use big picnic coolboxes with a hole drilled for a tap. Like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7k2OMWkxbw