Recent content by KGB

alas, i don't think i have any pictures, and i gave it back to the old man when i switched to a conical fermentor. i'll see if he can send me some photos.

i made another mistake with my last brewday. i planned and prepared everything carefully the night before, started the brew early on the day and had everything done, cleaned up and put away by nightfall without the slightest issue. all because i didn't drink a single beer whilst i was doing...

my father made me a wonderful little contraption; a platform you place the fermentor on and turn a handle to slowly tilt it forward, to help avoid disturbing the trub. no doubt that without it i'd have eventually been in your shoes, with all the different things i used to use that were near at...

this is getting rather complicated for a person who just got their first corny and wants to dispense straight from the keg. as someone who dispenses their beer just like op asked, my advice is this: 1. buy a normal black angled liquid out disconnect 2. buy a flow-control nukatap (it's worth...

you don't need that if the tap you buy has flow control. you also won't be able to attach a tap directly to the keg with a liquid disconnect that does not have the outlet angled upwards because the rubber top of the corny will be in the way (unless your corny is the kind which has cut-outs in...

i just bought some from ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331792957786 you could try the homebrew sections in wilkos or boyes.

can you put a spring in the ultratwist to auto close? i put one in my nukatap. that's another reason why the nukatap is better than the intertap.

i have two forward-sealing flow-control taps that i've used direct from cornies for a few years; one is an intertap and one a nukatap. i prefer the nukatap as it feels a bit nicer, but both work just the same. the nukatap has some plastic innards vs the intertap's metal.

i love the sound of the word 'krausen' and i certainly wouldn't describe it as "ugly foreign nonsense". that seems decidedly jingoistic to me. besides that, however, you make a compelling argument. as i generally brew english-style ales rather than the beers of the mainland (and am located up...

aye, i thought it was odd that the wiring in the extension lead melted without the fuse blowing. i buy more decent leads now. admittedly i am still using that same replaced socket with the same load these days, thankfully without issue. it's the only socket on the kitchen island where i brew. i...

- burnt out a wall socket and extension lead by running my hlt (2.5kw), induction hob (3kw), homemade herms tea kettle, inkbird and two pumps from them. though i suspect that might have more to do with the dodgy electrics in my house. or maybe my homemade herms. is it weird that my fuseboard...

my best man came up with the name for the ipa i brewed for our dinosaur-themed wedding (got married in a museum). it's kind of terrible but kind of great: "tri-ceremony-hops"

ss brewtech manufacture in china. spike brewing like to boast 'made in usa' but their parts are made in china and then welded and assembled in the us.

last weekend i cleared out the garage and had to pay someone £150 to come and collect the monumental amount of stuff that needed to go to the tip. i keep my grain in an airtight barrel which had been kept outside due to garage being packed with nonsense. i'd piled up all the rubbish where the...

they're better at being floyd than floyd ever were!