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A few that I haven't seen mentioned yet that generally give great service: https://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/ Delivery is so fast, usually next day and prices are competitive. https://brew2bottle.co.uk/ Did have a bit of a wobble a while back as I think they were having financial issues but...

Thought they were cashless already. Dark Web + Bit Coins. Quite anonymous too, for them anyway.

Apologies, I forget about you poor lot over the border 😁 Ironic that in a place where there are quite a few distilleries already you have to set up your own to get reasonably priced booze. It's probably going on already but there must be quite a good business case for driving a van over the...

They might be on dodgy ground by marketing it as a way to make spirits. As has been mentioned there's no law against selling distillation equipment but it is illegal to distil alcohol. Most of the other vendors tend to suggest the stills are for making distilled water, not anything else...

I make a bit of wine as well as beer. Metabisulphate doesn't kill yeast, rather it stuns it so it can come back to life sometime later (though not always), it is used as an anti-oxidant in wine making. Potassium sorbate is what you need if the desire is to stop any further fermentation. I...

I'd wondered if there was a CO2 detector you could use to look for leaks but had looked for something more industrial as I'd assumed something might actually exist for pubs and so on to use. Searching always seemed to just come up with the leak detector spray though which is just an expensive...

Ah, I see, I don't use mixed gas so just assumed the pressures would be similar to just straight CO2. Thanks for the info.

Check every connection by either immersing it in water (don't immerse regulators in water) or by using a spray of soapy water and look for bubbles forming. Also why do you need the keg pressured to 40 psi, seems high for any sort of beer, but you would do that for sparkling water.

I use a bottle tree which is similar: https://www.lovebrewing.co.uk/80-bottle-drying-tree/

It's not like they're shifting operations to another part of the country (or even the world), it's just a couple of miles away. Seems like a good idea to me, it should create more jobs in the near term while it's being built and hopefully preserve the jobs of the majority of those who work in...

Unfortunately it's one of those fad things that has probably lead to this. I suspect when everyone was drinking that Magners cr*p, with ice in it 🥺, demand leapt and the big beer businesses decided they wanted a bit of the action buying up firms like Bulmers, who incidentally did once make some...

IMHO with regards to that kit I think the old saying applies "you can't polish a turd (but you can roll it in glitter)". Not sure any amount of extra hops is going to mask the artificial honey taste you describe and that also puts that kit on my "done it once, never again" list. From what I...

J Just to add to the above, the cylinder I have now was supplied to me by a Hobbybrew Agent: https://hobbybrew.co.uk/ Therefore my agreement I have is with them and not the agent themselves so I can take it take to any of their agents along with the paperwork I have and hopefully get my...

When I first put my kegerator together I found an Adams gas supplier local to work, paid my deposit and got a cylinder of CO2, all good. Fast forward having been through a few cylinders and suddenly they don't have stock anymore, can't make any promises as to when they will, and the next...

Most of us just tend to convert fridges (AKA Kegerator) or freezers (AKA Keezer) to hold kegs, gas and have all the pipes, fittings, taps and so on to serve draught beer. Flash chillers are expensive in comparison. There might be someone on here with experience of them though.