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Ah sorry, should have realised that! Let us know how you get on with the kits! :thumb:

Yes I kegged one of these in a king keg last year and it turned out well. I didn't add the priming sugar to the FV, I used it to prime the keg. Anyway it was really nice, I would definitely recommend it.

Thanks for the explanation Ceejay, it's really interesting. :cheers: This brew has been a big learning curve, but obviously the best way to learn is to have a go and if something goes wrong then learn from it for next time!

Oh really, thanks. I guess I just assumed that getting air in to it at any point before the end of fermentation was a good thing. Next brew I'll use a long tube as if I was kegging it. I went for a couple of pints tonight with a few guys from the office and the pub had TT Landlord on tap. I...

Ah, fingers crossed then! I've mainly kegged beers in the past, I bottled the last few kits I made before this and they're only just ready for sampling so don't have much experience of how the beer matures in the bottle.

Well I bottled this today. I'm not sure how well it will turn out, when I tasted it it was very malty, bitterness was as expected but not as hoppy as expected. I'll try a bottle in a few weeks time and see what it's like!

Funnily enough I was thinking recently about looking for a Wherry clone and then your thread popped up! I think I'll give this a go in a couple of weeks when I have a free FV. :cheers:

Haha brilliant! :wha: I wonder if I can do that with my shed...

Thanks, I've been gradually buying all of the bits and pieces over the last few months and had a couple of days off work so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to try it. You should definitely give it a go! :thumb:

Thanks for all of the replies :cheers: Ah ok, so I messed up the sparge slightly, it didn't work out too badly in the end though. The other thing I did wrong was after I had finished sparging I questioned the calculations that I worked out before I started brewing and used 27 litres rather...

Actually, just thought of something, when I was sparging, I kept pouring water in until I had collected enough wort. This meant that I was left with ~15 litres in the mash tun. Did I do that correctly, or should I stop adding water halfway through sparging? Also, is there any reason why I...

Thanks everyone! Well the dog behaved himself and left the MT alone, so I got ready to sparge: I used the jug and tinfoil method: which seemed to work ok: Then I fired up the boiler I checked the gravity at this point and it was 1040, the target OG is 1042, so I assume I'll be close...

Well today has finally arrived and I've started my first AG brew. I thought it would be sensible to begin with a recipe in Graham Wheeler's book, so I picked TT Landlord as I've had the real thing before and quite liked it. I began yesterday with this: I managed to get everything built and...

Building my AG kit today actually! Build thread soon.

Hello and welcome! I'm from Didcot, so not far from you either. I'm about to bottle a wheat beer from New Zealand - Black Rock Whispering Wheat, it tastes good so far, so you might want to add it to your "to brew" list. :cheers:

A while ago I was looking into this as I'm interested in brewing some champagne beer once I've finished building my AG kit and brewed a few batches to get my eye in. From what I found people seem to use a disgorging machine, something like this...

Right, here is my current stash: Santa's Winter Warmer: I've been resisting the urge to test one, I'm trying to wait another month until I get my Christmas tree. Cooper's Continental Lager: Wherry kit: Black Rock's Whispering Wheat and Wilko's Copper Bitter in the FV's: Kegs are...

Ah ok, thanks for getting to the bottom of it. I guess I was just being too eager. I will try again this evening. :thumb:

Hi Moley Thanks for your help. The links from photobucket don't seem to start with www so perhaps it's best if I hold fire until you hear back from the admins. Thanks again Dominic

Does anyone know when I'll be allowed to post links to photobucket? I'd like to post some pictures in the stash thread. Thanks