Recent content by Toastkid

good idea thanks! According to a couple of sources it looks like the sugar content is about 10% of the total weight (which is surprising, i thought it would be higher). So that's 100g of sugar effectively. According to some other places, 100g of sugar will convert to 61g of ethanol (ie pure...

I'm doing one of my standard brews. OG was 1064. When the fermentation had slowed down, I decided to add 500g of frozen pineapple and 500g of frozen mango. I defrosted them and put them in the blender, so it was a big load of pulp, then poured that into a section of tights (my standard dry...

ah, tubing! Of which I have lots. Good call, I do always spend a lot of time filling bottles because of all the foam. If i'm in a hurry I suck out the foam then keep going :) But yes, I will definitely do that. I can probably use the standard 10 mil pushfit connecters on the taps, they're...

I often fill plastic mixer bottles with my homebrew, to take camping etc. It comes from a pressurised keg and I always make sure the foam comes right to the very top before I put the lid on. My thinking was that the foam must be made solely of beer and CO2, and won't have any oxygen (well not...

Thanks Dorst. I normally use Safale 05 (without nutrient) and love the flavour of the beer so i don't know if I need to add any nutrient to that but it's good to know that sulphur flavors can come from a lack of nutrient with some yeasts. I think I will probably just not use that yeast again...

I did a brew recently with a new type of yeast i hadn't used before (Lallemand Verdant IPA) and discovered **after** kegging it that it's got a very strong sulphury/eggy flavour. In hindsight the yeast is obviously one of those ones that makes a lot of hydrogen sulfide and needs to be left to...

Thanks, i'd pick the West Coast IPA, i've made a lot of them from scratch so would be very interested to see how the kit compares.

That's great thanks, I will get some and use them in my closed transfer experiment. Am boiling a TT Landlord clone as i type this :)

Cool thanks. Am i right that they don't need a seperate insert to go inside the pipe (like speedfit do for example)? Re the drilling large round holes, i always use a flat drill bit, this sort of thing. Funnily enough I used one this morning to drill loads of holes in the bottom of a...

I'm actually swinging towards just drilling a hole in a fresh bung and putting the hose through that, maybe with a bit of silicone. I think you're right that tightening the ball lock post down onto the screw could easily just shear a hole in the plastic lid. What sort of push fit do you use...

Actually the main problem is that I only have one keg, and it's usually got beer in it :) Currently I need to time the end of my fermentation for when my current keg runs out, which isn't always easy, though I will bottle it if there's some left over.

That idea about not trying to send the beer in through the ball lock, and just using a hose, with extra co2 flushing, is good, i'll definitely fall back to that if it jams up. Another option could be to unscrew and remove the dip tube ball lock, then remove the dip tube, and put the hose in...

That's good to know about the stoppage. I was trying to think of some way I could filter the **** out before it reaches the tap but didn't come up with anything. I'd wondered if putting the keg up to a relatively high pressure beforehand would help speed up the process. Then the gas in the...

That's a nice idea from a waste-not-want-not pov but I don't think I could pull it off without buying a load more stuff (eg spunding valve for a start).

Interesting. Please let me know how it went!