Recent content by mickpick

Less = 3 extra litres? :wha:

Sounds like you could be right. It never went about 135C but my thermometer could be wrong, so i'll try again lower.

I add the granulated sugar and water to the pan. Add the small amount of lemon juice and boil sugar for 20 mins between 127-135C. Towards the 20 minute point the sugar changes and because less fluid which a grainy appearance to the bubbles. This time I did it I only go to about 18 minutes when...

puravida, i do what you do more or less :cheers: but usually 7 days in FV

I'll give that a go, having bought a keg off eBay I didn't really feel satisfied until I got a brush to it.

I'm having the same idea. I'm realistically only limited to 8x6 too which is going to be pretty cosy if you've got the ladders and bikes in there. One idea I have is to dig down maybe 4ft or so to have a micro cellar under the floor.

If anyone's stuck for ways to clean out the liquid-in tubes on corny kegs I can recommend camelbak cleaning kits like this: http://bildr.no/view/1293444 The diameter of the pull-through brush is just about right!

Thames Water reported trace amounts of E.Coli in ours :sick:

One i poured in continental style with the optimum 50/50

Some might say it's about the whole package

I was actually referring to the picture in question. And how random the head was, as opposed to something totally uniform like you'd get out a can or bottle. Does the head in the pic mean it's an old keg?

Here's the head of some Old Speckled Hen that was on pub cask. I'm not sure if it always appears like this but I have noticed it a few times on maybe other beers too although hadn't given it much thought until OH asked. Random bubbles with dud parts of white.

With the beer kits i've come across HTB, GTB, LEB and X HZB 6G. This is what's written on the foil yeast sachets. Can't see any of these names in the yeast data sheets in the sticky. I just wanted to know their alcohol tolerances, temperature range etc. Anyone have any ideas?

http://www.spitting-feathers.co.uk/woodfordes-great-eastern-ale-p-228.html

Oh interesting, didn't know it wasn't released yet. Don't suppose you're familiar with Great Eastern then for a comparison?