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  1. KGB

    Brewing mistakes you really wish you'd avoided...

    alas, i don't think i have any pictures, and i gave it back to the old man when i switched to a conical fermentor. i'll see if he can send me some photos.
  2. KGB

    Brewing mistakes you really wish you'd avoided...

    i made another mistake with my last brewday. i planned and prepared everything carefully the night before, started the brew early on the day and had everything done, cleaned up and put away by nightfall without the slightest issue. all because i didn't drink a single beer whilst i was doing...
  3. KGB

    Brewing mistakes you really wish you'd avoided...

    my father made me a wonderful little contraption; a platform you place the fermentor on and turn a handle to slowly tilt it forward, to help avoid disturbing the trub. no doubt that without it i'd have eventually been in your shoes, with all the different things i used to use that were near at...
  4. KGB

    Which brand of faucet tap?

    this is getting rather complicated for a person who just got their first corny and wants to dispense straight from the keg. as someone who dispenses their beer just like op asked, my advice is this: 1. buy a normal black angled liquid out disconnect 2. buy a flow-control nukatap (it's worth...
  5. KGB

    Which brand of faucet tap?

    you don't need that if the tap you buy has flow control. you also won't be able to attach a tap directly to the keg with a liquid disconnect that does not have the outlet angled upwards because the rubber top of the corny will be in the way (unless your corny is the kind which has cut-outs in...
  6. KGB

    Threaded 16g c02 capsules

    i just bought some from ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331792957786 you could try the homebrew sections in wilkos or boyes.
  7. KGB

    Which brand of faucet tap?

    can you put a spring in the ultratwist to auto close? i put one in my nukatap. that's another reason why the nukatap is better than the intertap.
  8. KGB

    Which brand of faucet tap?

    i have two forward-sealing flow-control taps that i've used direct from cornies for a few years; one is an intertap and one a nukatap. i prefer the nukatap as it feels a bit nicer, but both work just the same. the nukatap has some plastic innards vs the intertap's metal.
  9. KGB

    Krausen

    i love the sound of the word 'krausen' and i certainly wouldn't describe it as "ugly foreign nonsense". that seems decidedly jingoistic to me. besides that, however, you make a compelling argument. as i generally brew english-style ales rather than the beers of the mainland (and am located up...
  10. KGB

    Brewing mistakes you really wish you'd avoided...

    aye, i thought it was odd that the wiring in the extension lead melted without the fuse blowing. i buy more decent leads now. admittedly i am still using that same replaced socket with the same load these days, thankfully without issue. it's the only socket on the kitchen island where i brew. i...
  11. KGB

    Brewing mistakes you really wish you'd avoided...

    - burnt out a wall socket and extension lead by running my hlt (2.5kw), induction hob (3kw), homemade herms tea kettle, inkbird and two pumps from them. though i suspect that might have more to do with the dodgy electrics in my house. or maybe my homemade herms. is it weird that my fuseboard...
  12. KGB

    Best Beer Names

    my best man came up with the name for the ipa i brewed for our dinosaur-themed wedding (got married in a museum). it's kind of terrible but kind of great: "tri-ceremony-hops"
  13. KGB

    Is Hopcat legit?

    ss brewtech manufacture in china. spike brewing like to boast 'made in usa' but their parts are made in china and then welded and assembled in the us.
  14. KGB

    Worst mistakes & Feck ups (Merged)

    last weekend i cleared out the garage and had to pay someone £150 to come and collect the monumental amount of stuff that needed to go to the tip. i keep my grain in an airtight barrel which had been kept outside due to garage being packed with nonsense. i'd piled up all the rubbish where the...
  15. KGB

    Music

    they're better at being floyd than floyd ever were!
  16. KGB

    Music

    i got into frank turner not from his music, but from his stage banter. i was idling past his set on the other stage at glastonbury, and he really grabbed me. i think i like his music largely because he is a genuine, decent and funny guy. also swmbo is a massive fan so i'm forced to listen to...
  17. KGB

    Music

    some of you have made my shitlist for disparaging the mighty floyd. (just kidding) but i must have seen six or seven different pink floyd tribute bands. aussie floyd win hands-down (but their tickets cost more than a lot of 'real' bands). alongside the floyd i also really dig sigur rós and...
  18. KGB

    Corny keg floating ball system

    good to know, thanks. i have a floating dip tube and filter that i don't think i'll ever actually use in a serving keg (particularly after reading this thread), but will come in handy when i fancy using a corny as a second fermentor.
  19. KGB

    Corny keg floating ball system

    does the tube not get clogged with krausen in your fermenting keg, or is the krausen suppressed enough fermenting under pressure?
  20. KGB

    Great service from Malt Miller!!

    definitely, the search function for ingredients on mm is brilliant
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