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Hi Folks I took the plunge and have moved over to a (23l) Cornelius Keg. I am in the process of force carbonating my first batch. I have the ODL premium regulator with soda stream attachment. I need to pop out to Lakeland and get my soda stream bottle refilled (swapped empty for full). It...

Hi Folks Advice needed on watering down my ginger beer before bottling. Basically I chucked loads of sugary stuff in the boil - lime marmalade, orange marmalade and some brewing sugar, plus lots of ginger and some chilli. OG was 1.070 (!!!) and FG 1.002, so we are looking at something...

Just bottled 40 pints of pils, which was a Coopers kit, tweaked by the addition of a little fresh chilli in the fv. I had decided to experiment with low alcohol, so I heated about 10 pints and simmered (never coming to the boil or approaching it) at 80-85C until all the alcohol smell and taste...

I am dry hopping a Munton's premium Pilsner with 50g of Citra. By 'eck it's tastey. I'm finding it hard to resist drinking it in its current state, cloudy or not! Is there any harm in drinking beer before bottling/carbonation? Also does anyone else 'taste' as they go?

Hi folks I have a pressure barrel of pilsner (Munton's premier range). I have drawn off a few pints over the last couple of weeks, but still very flat. It is a good month since I transferred it from the FV to the barrel and primed with brewing sugar. Should I open it up and chuck in some...

Is it something I am doing wrong? Yesterday I was capping some bottles and the capper 'bit' the tops off two of the bottles. I am using recycled bottles, so it might be that the glass was thinner than normal, but it gave me quite a shock - potentially quite dangerous as well. The offending...

I have an all grain brew in a demijohn that is still bubbling away coming up to four weeks fermenting. After about a week I put it in the garage for around ten days, where it cooled down and stopped bubbling. I brought it in the kitchen with a view to bottling and it started up bubbling...

Hi folks I have just picked up a pressure barrel cap with CO2 fitting from Lakeland. It was only when I looked carefully that I noticed that it is described as a fitting a 2.25" (60mm) neck: http://www.lakeland.co.uk/52451/Pressure-Barrel-Top I can't find anyone who makes a 60mm...

Hi folks I was just about to buy a 25 litre plastic bucket FV off Amazon, when I started to read the reviews. I realise that not all plastic buckets are the same. I have learnt the "buy cheap buy twice" lesson and do not need any revision!! What make/model of fermentation vessel do you...

Hi Folks I have a couple of kits that are nearing their sell-by dates. One is an AG kit and there is a date (next Sunday) printed on the sealed pack of malt grain. The second is a canned Malt Extract kit, which has a few more months before its sell-by date. Does anyone have...

Hi folks, I have a chance of getting a working 10 gallon Burco, which I am guessing dates back to the 60s. It is galvanised outside and steely looking inside. If I get this it will cost me my petrol money and about a fiver for the boiler, all in all somewhere in the region of £15...

Hi folks This is my first post, so please bear with me! I would like to have a go at a low alcohol brew, such as Brew Dog's Nanny State, but I have no idea where to start. Is there something in particular that you have to do differently to end up with a flavoursome low alcohol brew...

Hi everyone Just returned to home brewing after a 30 year gap. I picked up a craft beer Munton kit on offer at Lakeland. Things have certainly come on a lot since my last home brewing efforts. So I now have a demijohn on the kitchen worktop bubbling away to its heart's content...