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Collection in person auctions usually go lower than ones providing delivery since it depends on how far away from the seller you are.

going to give it plenty of conditioning time for this one.

Started a Coopers Irish Stout with Treacle, made to 22 litres with a 1.5kg tin of malt extract and a 454g tin of treacle. I threw caution to the win in a fit of insanity and chucked all of the treacle in. Will have to see if it was crazy. Why is it when you brew something always goes awry...

I've made 6 kits and another in the FV at the moment and the only one so far I have thought it had a twang was the first one I made. It was a Coopers Canadian Blonde brewed with 1kg of brewing sugar. Used my tap water which at times can smell like bleach and it definitely affected the beer...

I put on my 3rd on of these, short brewed to 21l as always, going to add some spices to it in the fermenter with a week to go. Had everything cleaned and was spraying liberally with the starsan, forgot I had the airlock on the fermenter, til I tipped the cans in on top of it. Nearly as bad as...

If you get the fire extinguishers sorted let me know, from Northern Ireland as well so knowing co2 supplier will come in handy when I get round to going the corny route.

When you got your fire extinguisher did you not get the dip tube removed and the valve changed

I was thinking of brewing a wherry and then dry hopping it as it were with a Schwartz mulled wine spice sachet. Add to the fermenter with a few days to go so as not to overdo it.

Good we don't want to have to give you the cold shoulder

it's got me thinking, weather is great but not for brewing with no brew fridge.

I was going to ask for ideas as well, since I probably won't get brewing a Christmas ale till September was thinking of maybe using a wherry as a base kit, maybe add 500g of dme and I have mulled wine spice packets was maybe going to add. Any suggestions??

I want to know will all these brilliant pictures of beer porn be blocked under Cameron's plans

The good lady wife bought me Starsan for father's day so I look for ward to my bottling being much quicker. Going to clean and sterilise them then cap them using the caps that were on them previously( I take the of carefully and collect them) else use tin foil. Then come bottling sterilise...

Watched this , they're all ****, no sample or beer clips. Other team couldn't add, really scraping the bottom of the cask now

That looks like a mixed gas regulator going by the guage