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St Peters Honey Porter: cloyingly sweet

Thanks. I used an identical rubber seal on the inside, but I guess that will only help if the inside of the barrel is sufficiently smooth at the contact point.

After years of barreling with no leaky tap problems, I recently bought a King Keg. I used PTFE on the tap thread to get a nice tight seal and greased the washer with vaseline. About half way through my first batch, beer started leaking around the tap, so I transferred the beer to another...

I don't know about King Keg, but a Ballihoo cap fitted my RotoKeg. I need to get another one, after destroying my previous one while doing a leak test!

The Double Dancing Duck IPA sounds awesome!

It's working now. Apparently they had sold out for a while, but now back in stock. Just placed my order!

Has anyone succeeded in getting the Beerwork's Winter Warmer for £10? https://www.lovebrewing.co.uk/limited-edition-beerworks-craft-brewery-special-offer/ I find that I cannot tick the box to add the Winter Warmer (tried Safari and Chrome); maybe it is sold out?

West Coast IPA please!

Thanks for the tip. Can you say roughly how much it costs to courier the empty cylinder? I'm wondering if it would make more sense in the long term to switch to sodastream with an S30 adapter (I believe the sodastream cylinders are widely available to exchange in person, thus saving courier...

Nah. I could have rigged something up with nuts and washers, but decided to go for an S30 valve instead, as I've already got a cylinder. Will get a chance to try it for my next batch: Mangrove Jack's Simcoe IPA!

Redneck for me please!

The bung in the lid of my trusty Boot’s pressure barrel (where the S30 valve would go) is cracking (see attached picture) and no longer holds a seal. Does anyone know where I can buy a replacement? HB suppliers that I have checked under barrel spares don’t have anything like this. If not, I’ll...

Well, I added the (30g) of hop pellets loose 5 days ago, and have just siphoned the beer into a barrel. Happy to report that there was absolutely no problem with the siphon tube clogging up (I have a small filter bag over the end of the siphon). I suspect the problem with the Young's IPA kit...

I'm really enjoying the Pennine Peak at the moment. Tastes like a proper Yorkshire bitter.

On this topic, I've noticed that with some kits (e.g. Young's American IPA), dry hopping without a bag resulted in clogging of the syphon tube which was a real pain. However, with Festival Ale Landlord's Finest, bagless hops caused no problem. I'm about to brew Munton's American IPA. Can...

Thanks for the tip! I ordered a couple of kits on Monday and they arrived today! Well done Creative winemaking!

Actually, I think the discount code is suspended during the sale, see https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/discount-cheatsheet.64575/

HBC https://www.thehomebrewcompany.co.uk/ have 10% off all kits at the moment, although the forum 5%-off discount code has expired.

I have a silly question about these kits. The online instructions at https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0195/8620/files/V3_MJ_GENERIC_INST_HR.pdf?3084889648740892939 say: Remove the yeast (plus hop sachet and other dry additives if included) from the dry compartment of the pouch and set aside...

I've just finished a barrel of the HBC Irish Stout (not in one sitting, obviously). An excellent, well-rounded brew, ideal for winter drinking. I would definitely make this again. I thought it was much more successful than the previous HBC kits I have brewed: the best bitter and the porter...