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  1. HLA91

    Rhubarb £1 per 400g

    Currently 400g rhubarb is down from £1.50 to £1 as a club card offer. Lasts until the 9th May.
  2. HLA91

    For sale: 45L Mash Tun, 50L electric boiler/HLT & 50L Boiler

    Hi all I have the aforementioned for sale here are the pics Mash tun used once comes with hop bazooka £70 Ono, HLT I bought second hand and I have used once has 2 electric elements £50 Ono, and metal boiler, used once is gas but could be converted to electric, it comes from rob malt...
  3. HLA91

    For Sale: 2 Corny Kegs South Wales

    Hi all I have ball lock cornies for sale, both have just had new completely new seals, and one has had a new set of poppet's. The one that had new seals and poppet's pressurises fine, I'm asking £50. The other one seals temperamentally, as I only replaced the seals, so it needs new...
  4. HLA91

    Eliminating Syrup Smell from Cornies

    Hi All, I have a batch of Mild AG ready to keg so tonight when I came in I went out to the shed grabbed my pre-cleaned corny only to undo the lid and get a very big waft of pepsi/coke syrup :doh: I had cleaned this keg out around 4 weeks ago, it had been sat in my shed since I bought it from...
  5. HLA91

    Sealing Coleman mash Tun tips?

    Hi All I recently purchased a Coleman 35L pre-converted mashtun, never used, from here It arrived with the tap and hop filter removed and 2 kevlar washers. I tried using just 1 washer but I encountered dripping where the tap joins the box, so i tried 2 washers. I have done everyhting as tight...
  6. HLA91

    BIAB with seperate boiler, possible?

    Hey all I have a questions regarding brewing in a bag but boiling the wort in a separate boiler. My current setup is a standard BIAB on a sovetop, but as I discovered on my first brewday due to the height of the extractor fan I can't lift out the grain bag without moving the pot off the stove...
  7. HLA91

    MM Shopping list ideas

    Hey All My first All grain brew (BIAB, Twisted Stout from MM) is about to be transferred to a corny, and I fancy making something else to have 2 cornies giving me a choice of brews to drink. I fancy Batemans Dark Mild 23Ltr MaltBill Pale Malt 2660g Crystal 410g Black 240g Flaked Wheat 130g 90...
  8. HLA91

    Staffordshire Brewery Supplies

    Found these guys, don't know if anyone has used them, prices seem very reasonable http://www.staffordshirebrewery.co.uk/29-malt-hops
  9. HLA91

    BIAB Stockpot Hop Filter? Y or N

    Hey everyone I just received my order of 50L Boiler with fitted tap and sight glass + Twisted Stout kit all from Rob @ Malt Miller :cheers: (cracking service), my question is do I need a hop filter on my boiler or would it risk not being able to stir my grain and would my bag catch on it and...
  10. HLA91

    Taking cornie to a party?

    Hey everyone I just put my brewmaker olde english ale into my cornie, I purged the keg and then set it to 7 psi last night and topped it up again this morning and the fridge is set at 10 degrees. I have a party coming up on the 23rd and my plan is to take the keg and gas down (not the fridge...
  11. HLA91

    Sealing cornie at low pressure

    Hey everyone My brew is about ready to go into its corny and its my first time using one. I know you need a decent amount of psi to seal the lid, I have heard it creak as I slowly increase teh pressure as it settles in. My brew is a olde English ale and the lowest psi I have on my reg is 7 but...
  12. HLA91

    Incremental psi regulator?

    Hey everyone, Finally all of the parts for my corny build arrived but the regulator I ordered this one the psi side of the dial starts at 10 which is a bit inconvenient as I would like to be using less than that. The Bar side has 0.5 which equates to 7 psi but I was wondering if anyone knows of...
  13. HLA91

    Kegerator build + Corny tubing/tap question?

    Hey everyone I have got round to getting some of the gear for a corny setup, my first (my only according to SWMBO) corny arrived a few days ago, thanks bobsbeer :thumb:, and I picked up a fridge yesterday. The fridge is a small under the counter job and the cooling element is essentially the...
  14. HLA91

    Wilko CT not dissolving

    Hi everyone Last week I was sorting through a wardrobe where I found a DJ of peach and wheat wine which had a speck of something on the surface. I gave it a crushed CT just to be on the safe side and within 24 hours a once crystal clear wine was cloudy, I believe I fell victim to the Youngs...
  15. HLA91

    Apricot and Barley wine turned into a smoothie

    Hey everyone I just made a gallon of apricot and barley using 1lb of flaked barley and 2lb of minced dried apricots. After 1 week in the bucket I attempted to transfer it to a DJ. I put my fine grain-bag over a funnel and a seive over that to catch any big bits. It went through the seive ok bit...
  16. HLA91

    Corker question

    Hey everyone I just bottled my banana wine but my 2 handled corker has let me down. It has 2 adjusting nuts on the corker but the problem is just picking up the corker causes the nuts to spin they are so loose. This led to 6 bottles of wine with **** looking corks, some of them, the center...
  17. HLA91

    Dried apricot wine

    Hi guys My local Julian graves is having a 50% of everything sale + thr fact that's it a factory outlet means that they are doing a couple of decentish prices for once and I picked up 750g of dried apricots. Now I have a recipe in mind using 1lb of apricots and barley, 1L of WGJ, now the...
  18. HLA91

    Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival

    Just to let people know I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else on the forum, from the 7-9th June in the Cardiff International Arena or the Motorpoint stadium as they like to call it, camra are organising said festival.>clicky< entry is £6 under 26's and camra members get beer tokens upon...
  19. HLA91

    Mixed Dried Fruit in place or Sultanas/Raisins??

    Hi everyone I was in Asda earlier and I picked up some sultanas for an upcoming Barley wine, and I noticed Mixed Dried Fruit next to the sultanas. Upon closer inspection they contain Sultanas 44%, Currants 22%, Seedless Raisins 22%, Candied citrus peel 10%, orange peel, sugar, lemon peel etc...
  20. HLA91

    Foil on favourite corks?

    Hi all My girlfriend is looking for some ideas for presents for my birthday and I just picked up a nice 30 bottle wine rack off eBay for 2.50 and I would like some properly corked bottles to go in it all my bottles currently have plastic stoppers which are fine but I am thinking a bag of nice...
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