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Sorry if this sounds a stupid question with an obvious answer but I'm just not sure. But last Autumn I did my Irish Stout kit and put it in the plastic pressure barrel to age etc with the majority slowly drank over Xmas and new year with some drank late January noting it completely flat and no...

Just wandering if the Co2 serving pressure is uniform (minus line thickness & length) regardless of ale type or ale type & desired carbonation dependent?. As pulling time is irrelevant to me, just don't want the froth and with a very short line even 9PSI is giving a little more froth than...

So I got my co2 supply this week and started trying to use it yesterday afternoon. Connected it up as per you would and hearing slight leaks tightened things up. Used soapy water to confirm no leaks I could see. So I initially set the pressure at 35PSI (ok it's slightly higher than required)...

Well I've just bought the family a nice new big fridge freezer, for which as far as the missus is concerned I never had an ulterior motive in doing so, honest, even though I already knew I was moving to corny kegs, honestly no ulterior motive for this act of generosity in the slightest!. Now...

Ok, trying to source a co2 supplier before going down the small soda stream gas bottle route I did some searching and can see these threads come up all the time etc. But the only such thread for my area (Liverpool) is several years old and or the companies mentioned no longer appear to deal in...

Well I'm asking this out of curiosity and necessity as much as anything after having to keg a brew (a later brew) yesterday that looked like it had an infection. Only I've yet to source any co2 so simply keged the bulk and primed with most the priming sugar. Now here is the question, whilst...

After my initial testing of the Wilko pressure barrel has been positive and I see no reason to move away from that where it suits the type of ale etc. Saying that, i'm now also starting to look ahead to the metal barrels where I want something more pressure resistant for full carbonation etc...

Well time for another new brew for me, this time after a trip to the local brew shop and already deciding I wanted to try a lager kit I settled on the "Beerworks Southern Gold Digger Premium Lager". And will be doing this in the next hour. As with these premium kits the 3kg of malt means no...

So, knowing I'm getting at least 3 brews in for Xmas starting next week and knowing I just won't have the space yet for 120+ odd bottles I'm thinking of putting the stout brew into one of those plastic pressure barrels as looking at upgrading my equipment somewhat from bottles. But I've always...

Well, picked one's self up and carry on by doing all you can after a spoilt brew binned by starting a fresh brew this afternoon :) No real plans but as follows using the first grains to hand: Grain bill: Golden Promise 1.9kg (86.4%) Lager Malt 150g (6.8%) Flaked Malt 150g (6.8%) Hop Bill...

Well 2 days ago I noticed a completely transparent skin had formed on my brew after having transferred it to the secondary FV to settle before bottling. Only today I open it up for bottling and note it's now gone white. Putting a spoon it to inspect it simply breaks up rather than an actual...

Well got another 30 litre bucket this morning and as an afternoon few hours to myself thought why not start my third brew in a week!. A bit random but currently in the middle of doing a 14 litre batch. 2.85kg Golden Promise 0.25 flaked wheat Got hold of some Citra hops so will add about 10g...

Maybe the first to try this, maybe not. But just done this today making use of the boil time with my latest all grain (10\10.5 litre) brew. A several weeks off 56 odd pints of home brew. Not to much to say yet except the initial SG of 1044 may have been inhibited by the addition of the...

Well, I'm doing this today using a working title "5C" which is more down to the hops I'm using, which is the following: Cascade Centennial Challenger Chinook Columbus Grain for the brew will be: Hock Head Pale Malt Vienna Though I also have Golden Promise, Propuno & Cristal at my disposal...

Not their APA or Summer ale, but their IPA. Tried a bottle of the Shipyard IPA last week for the first time and have to say thought it was the best new (for me) ale I've tried in years out of a bottle. So much so I'm trying to find a recipe for it if anyone knows of 1?.

My other half has suggested I look into getting a barrel in the near future due to the growing number of bottles I'm gathering!. I think she must have had a bump on the head to be so encouraging in my new hobby lol. But hay, her idea not mine, but it has got me thinking though. In that I'm...

So, I syphoned and bottled my second (and first AG) brew today. Started off well, very clear already but soon encountered a problem. My system was to syphon from the main FV into the small 10 litre FV. The second FV has the muslin cloth clamped over it and I syphon over this to filter out any...

Well mainly relating to grain but as much a general thought as anything. But looking around for my next grain & hop buy (busy with work this week) I'm noting an issue of concern before I buy. And that's that there seems to be a weight limit or a size (box) limit that going beyond incurs extra...

Well as a new brewer having only done but a single AG brew I might be forgiven for asking about what might be clear to some. But I want to ask before ordering some grain all the same. Base grain, this seems to be primarily Maris Otter or any other generic "pale" grain from what I might...

Right, sorting out my old glass bottles, I note only about 18 of them are the brown bottles, the rest either clear or green, so binning those. Meaning I need about another 26 bottles that I would have to buy. But unsure on if plastic beer bottles are really any good (sure cheaper) or if to...