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I have a king keg which was bought for me, the lid has a valve without a pin, how do you get gas into this?

i have had a brew belt on it, thought this would do the trick and keep the temperature up!!!!! i will give it a stir and leave it for another week

Thanks Wez found the leak, around the pressure release valve, this is all very disheartening. Here is another one for you, please i brewed a beer 22 November, the recipe is shown below, i moved it to the secondary after 7 days, i took a hydrometer reading this morning as i was going to keg it...

My King Keg does not seem able to hold pressure. Since starting to drink my beer yesterday I have had to put in 4 of those little gas containers to get any sort of head on the beer, surely this can’t be normal. Is there anything that can be done?

Thanks, i will email him

I keep seeing lots of talk about the cornelius keg. I thought i saw a post which gave a name of some one selling them on ebay?? anyone have any contacts? i want to buy one ready to go with all the bits and pieces.

Never mind me, just playing anyone have a view as to how this would turn out? 5 gallon batch 3.6 kg light malt extract 1 kg light DME 500g crushed crystal malt styrian goldings 56g 90 Mins Fuggles 42g 90 Mins Styrian Goldings 28g 15 Mins Kent Goldings 28g 15 Mins Irish Moss 2 tsp 15...

i have invited a couple of friends round to watch football and we will atempt to drink all 5 gallons on staturday :cheers:

well i must say that after the replies, i drew off a glass, from the king keg, it has now cleared again, lovely amber colour, tastes ok, sherry like quality, :thumb: i can live with that, pouring very slow though, no gas, will add some gas at the weekend. Thanks all not a bad first atempt :cheers:

thanks BS its all so complicated, managed to download a copy of Brewsmith and after 6 pints of Speckled Hen i just sat there looking at Brewsmith, could not make head or tail of it. Feeling a bit down, my first ever brew has been in the keg for 2 weeks, it was clear when it went into the keg...

I have 40 gms Styrian 70 gms Fuggles 75 gms Goldings The packages do not have the AA%'s

so you wouldn't recommend throwing the lot in and keeping my fingers crossed??? :pray:

Hi everyone I really would like to brew a bitter that tastes good and has a high ABV the ingredients i have are 3.6 Kilo amber malt extract 1 Kilo amber DME 500g Crytal Malt crushed Styrian Goldings Fuggles Kent Goldings Irish Moss Burton Water Salts Safale S-04 yeast Muntons Gold...

Thanks I’ll give that a go tonight. I am thinking that you are right and the yeast dropped out of suspension, it makes sense as we had 2 power cuts in the last week so who knows what the temperature dropped down to. Wonder if enough yeast went into the secondary fermenter to get it going again.

Hi all, after 7 days there seemed to be no action in the airlock so I moved this to a secondary fermenter, gravity only came down to 1020 from 1044, I wonder why?? :wha: I carefully siphoned the beer into the second fermenter and it starting driping out of the tap, so had to quickly wash out...

thanks wez, you were right about the airlock, seems that lid of the plastic bin is not airtight, although it seems to fit so tight i couldn't get it off again The other thing i noticed is that i made 25 litres of beer rather than 5 gallons!!!!!! thought it was the same thing :oops:

well from reading odds and sods, this is what i did in the end 5 gallon batch 4.5kg coopers unhopped light malt extract styrian goldings 45g 90 Mins Fuggles 30g 90 Mins Styrian Goldings 15g 15 Mins Goldings 24g 15 Mins Irish Moss 1 tsp 15 Mins Muntons Yeast...

well from reading odds and sods, this is what i did in the end 5 gallon batch 4.5kg coopers unhopped light malt extract styrian goldings 45g 90 Mins Fuggles 30g 90 Mins Styrian Goldings 15g 15 Mins Goldings

yes an online one, the hops have a young's ubrew lable, gives weight, name and best before date

made it home just checked the hops and it does not show a percentage of AA's