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Hi Tom, yes, your eyes are working better than mine. I see the Ballihoo 15kg in stock, and so this looks like the best option. Thanks !

Thanks for the advice Tom. Sleepy me checking the link later, finding no stock here either. Maybe I need to graduate from LME to a malted grain boiling operation.

My regular brewing habit uses LME. Purists might scoff, but I like it, and that is what counts. Typically I buy 25kg of Muntons Malt Extract, and work it through ~ 10 brews, and it lasts for around 1 year. Now getting down to the last brew's worth of syrup, I was thinking of re-stocking, to take...

When I wanted to progress beyond tin kits, which almost always produced excellent results, but felt less "creative", I looked into the options. I tried adding a tin of malt extract instead of shop sugar, and this was also good. Then found there are umpteen varieties of hops, so I tried malt...

When I first read this I thought "did I write this post and then forget I had done it?" as I have just had an identical situation. I boiled up a brew, then added dry hops to the fermenter, then found I had a moonscape pellicule, and initially thought "Waa, all my beer is ruined". Now I am trying...

This is amazing. I am very impressed with your Xbeerimental efforts. Great work ! Now learning about your work on the "Buffers Cap". Watching the video I will enjoy going down this beer flavoured rabbit hole. Next stop, Mylar balloon !

Thanks for the good lateral thinking. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place. I usually put 100g of sugar into the keg, and get some way down before extra gas is needed. Perhaps I should put in more priming sugar ? Perhaps I should make more head space in the keg, to accommodate more gas...

Hunting all over the internet for wisdom, this seems to be a good place to dig deeper. Looking for an alternative to adding in CO2 to my King Keg to maintain pressure. I appreciate that the seals need to be sound. Using a HB gas bottle, with no local refill service, is costing more in postage...

Drat. I am missing out some of the ingredients. My water meter costs £1 a tonne. 1p / 10L, that all adds up, what with the cleaning, and the filling of the brew bucket. Call it 5p. Then there is the no rinse sanitiser, 1tsp bleach and 1tsp vinegar, that has to cost something too. Then there is...

I have been making "Country Wine" costing somewhere south of £5 for 25L. I make this 20p a Liter, or 15p for a "bottle" of 750ml. It's well received by all of the drinkers, perhaps not too discerning, but no one spits it out and they all ask for more. I make it pink with fruits, for marketing...

The most common myth I come across is that homebrew is somehow poisonous, and will make you "go blind". Around this very wrong concept, a whole collection of other similar myths seem to persist. Several factors might be at work here: - The erroneous idea that homebrew will contain dangerous...

Finding that here in the UK there are 100g vac-packed Hops for sale for £1 + VAT = £1.20, I have been brewing up all sorts of Hop flavoured "not beer" recipes. Turns out everything tastes better with hops in. The beer making materials involve £1 of hops and >£10 of malt to make 40 pints, which...

Last week I hired a one way van and drove it all the way across France for £1. Everything worked a treat, although I was expecting a scam or some hidden catch, nothing bad happened. This might or might not be any use to you, but worth telling anyway. Sure I had to pay fuel and tolls, and I opted...

For the last year or so I have been using a "no rinse" sanitisation method that works really well for me. I scraped it off the internet, so can't take credit for the method, but can endorse it, either I am consistently lucky, or it works, or both. The method is to put 1 teaspoon of thin...

Looking into this some more I find this patent, so someone in the world is thinking about this too. I am not going to worry that much about infringing the patent for now. https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2588389A2 It was filed in 2009 and withdrawn in 2019. "A bladder system and apparatus...

I came across this post in my quest for working out an alternative to using CO2 to displace the beer and maintain pressure above the beer, without introducing any air-borne contamination. Currently using a Hambleton Bard S30 co2 bottle, which runs out quite quickly, needs time and money to...