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    Butane burner help please

    Take a look at the steel sleeve near the gas inlet, slide it along to get more air in to mix with the gas / nice blue flame! Usually about 75% open or til it goes blue and stable
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    Kegging for the first time....Question

    Disagree about ptfe as the seal is via the rubber washer, not the thread. Taping it might give a better seal by stopping any beer passing along the threads, but might damage the threaded hole if the tap has to be force-screwed back in because it's too tight. I'd put efforts into keeping...
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    Hotel Brochure in Beijing

    Hate to wee wee on the bonfire, but....................http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/Chinese-Hotel-Brochure.htm#.Uz2DO6hdXww Have I told you about the Harley I found, and when I lifted the saddle it said "To Elvis, Happy Birthday from (insert name of choice)" :o:D
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    Powell Brewing - Thermopot mash tun - Mini review

    Yep, I put a good straight edge across the top and then put a metre rule in the pot, and got a line on where they met Also got a fine stiff wire and trimmed the end until it just snugged in the bore of the pot, then measured that.....going on memory I think it was 446mm inner diameter, the...
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    Powell Brewing - Thermopot mash tun - Mini review

    Kev We're not far apart, I have mine as 443mm high from bottom to top of lip I just put a formula in the cell to the effect of (443 - headspace in mm) X 6.4 Doing that comes out at 53.6 litres, but probably some variation in top lip height? Your arithmetic is correct!
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    Powell Brewing - Thermopot mash tun - Mini review

    Back after the outage...............it's 6.4mm per litre for the 70 litre pot, so I set up a little spreadsheet in my brewday sheet and just take a measure of headspace with the rule, drop that into a cell and it calculates the volume for me. Tested it a few times and it's spot on:D
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    Re: Wilkos Pressure Barrel Leak. 5l IPA Gone

    Try this link for explanation, esp the diagram which clears up a lot of queries (see the pdf attachment) They also sell the spares kit of three seals http://www.lovebrewing.co.uk/s30-valve/#
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    Powell Brewing - Thermopot mash tun - Mini review

    I've got the same pot, pleased with it too. Valve is fine FYI, the inside face of the drain fitting has a 15mm bore, so if you get a short bit of pipe with a 15mm elbow soldered on, it slots in there neatly enough to stay put and you can get right down to the pot base to draw off I just tip mine...
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    Re: Wilkos Pressure Barrel Leak. 5l IPA Gone

    Check the gas injection valve, if you can see a brown rubber ring around the visible part of the body, that's the pressure relief device. It covers a small hole that leads to the beer side of the valve, and any excess pressure forces its way past the rubber ring and out. If you keep gassing it...
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    Commercial glass bottle 'recycling'/cleaning - a question?

    Done to death already, and then some The search function - THBF's best kept secret :clap: search.php?keywords=label+removal&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search
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    Cant gas my keg with c02 bottle

    No insert? Try the love brewing website, they have a cross section of the valve, if none fitted you might be stumped.
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    Cant gas my keg with c02 bottle

    Remove the o ring and take the insert out, flip it over and it should have pin in the other side!
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    Wilko Pressure Barrell what am I doing wrong?

    My experience with lid seals is that a couple of things can go wrong 1 The neck of the barrel isn't perfectly round, and can be oval. I warmed one with a hair dryer, squeezed it to a more round shape and it reset to that shape, all ok. The oval shape was forcing the seal off the joint face 2 You...
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    Sad for the workers

    Unions also what helped wreck many industries, like crow would have done if he got his way. Tactically he made an impact but strategically clueless and a throwback to a bygone era. As for his principles? £145k a year and taking a council house? Shameless hypocrite. Furthering his own communist...
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    Storing Open Yeast

    What type and brand of yeast is it?
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    Bottling after being kept in Keg

    The key question here appears to sit in your second paragraph, yes you can take glasses from the keg as long as there is enough gas pressure inside it to push the beer out and stop air glugging back in. When the C02 starts running low the beer will just dribble out and then you'll get a glug of...
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    Flashed in Staines

    The serious reply was far funnier than any of the follow ups, only on thbf :shock:
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    Leaving Bottle Labels on

    Just outta curiosity, what sort of answer or info were you expecting in response to this question? What do YOU think? :hmm:
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    Decided To Give Up homebrewing

    Think positive At least with only 4 posts under your belt, you didn't **** away too much time on here :thumb: :cheers:
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    Problems bottling from a casked ale

    Sounds like you're doing something very wrong! Why not just serve from the barrel? If you've primed it you're all done and it's ready to drink once carbed and clear Why bottle after that......... what are you aiming for? If you want to bottle you prime it then go straight to the bottling and it...
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