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As I am only using the picnic tap for now going to go for the short length - 200mm of 3/16. Waiting 30 secs for a pint seems interminable!

So connected my proper tap with a 2ft length of 3/8 pipe and beer came flooding through so maybe the picnic tap is poor. I understood I would need 10ft of 3/16 to get good flow with low foaming. Doesn't seem to be any blockage!

Just read a post elsewhere saying if the dip tube is not right in the middle (at the bottom) is can inhibit flow - is that a thing?

As the beer is very young - and possibly still carbonating, I haven't pulled a "pint" yet but a few small glasses full which took ages - I would say a very slow trickle. I will try & put up a short clip.

Yes gas is connected and ON at 15 psi

Could use a bit of advice. First go at kegging here - all the parts are brand new - including the kegs and a good quality regulator (I think) - 3/16 pipe at about a 9' length. So had the keg at 30psi for a few days then in the fridge at 15 psi for over a week now and using a picnic tap until I...

Just started kegging and received my first CO2 bottle - a 3.15 kg size. On connecting it it is reading 48bar and is in the light red section of the regulator gauge. Wondering if I have been given a low filled bottle or is it normal to read like this. Wanting to know when to re-order, assumed...

Just starting to keg my beers now and looking with interest at adding gelatin to clear the beer - mostly IPA's and amber ales but will be brewing lagers soon so would like them to be nice and clear. Any help on this process would be great - I guess it's not too difficult but any advise so as...

As an update - it occurs to me that when bottling with a PET I squeeze the air out before putting the cap on which clearly can't be done with a glass bottle!, so would that very small amount of air make the difference?

Yes same 30L - I Think I must have measured wrong - will do it again on the next brew.

Been using the Brew monk for a few brews now but the mash seems very thick. A comment I posted here asked to check the dead space below the grain basket - I have measured that at 8 ltrs - which seems a lot. So am I right in assuming that if the recipe calls for say 13 Ltrs of strike water I...

Sorry should have said that I did enter the ingredients and use the Brew Monk profile in Brewfather.

Final gravity was 1010, I mashed at 17L - the Brew Monk has about 3L space below the malt pipe so 15L is too low. Strike water was about 71c, ph was 5.25. When you say which software - I assume you mean like Brewfather? I used this but being new I kind of followed the recipe instructions I was...

So it seems the kits - and my inexperience may be at fault. this is the third brew with ingredients from GEB. The first was not a kit but based on a recipe I was given with about 5.2 kg of grain and US-05 Yeast. This was my first A/G and it turned out fine, nice abv and good carbonation. I then...

I batch carbonated with dextrose - used an online calculator which gave 160g for 23 ltrs.

Predicted FG was 1008 but actual was 1012 so with the OG of 1043 made a low abv beer - very thin.

Both brews that ended up thin with a low abv and carbonation were with Lallemand yeast - the brew with US-05 was fine.... I wonder

Should also say that this brew fermented very quickly - 2.5 days which leads me to think there were just not enough fermentables in it.

Appreciate all the help.

Recipe for this kit was: Best Ale Malt 4.1kg Cara Gold 0.54 kg Williamette & Challenger hops Lallemand Windsor ale yeast Mash temp 66c Target vol 25l (I made it to 23l) Mash time 60min - Boil 60min I also did a whirlpool for 15 mins Basic water treatment for ph etc - ph was bang on 5.2