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I bet you enjoyed the bbq with a whole keg to yourself ;o)

Thanks for all the useful info. I'll contact my local gas suppliers. I need to find out what their rental charges are and if they refill private canisters etc. I didn't realise that some of them charge a rental fee actually. I thought you normally just had to pay a deposit and for replacement...

I'm looking into buying some cornelius kegs. I have heard this norm guy mentioned several times before. So he must be good and reliable. What kind of money would I be looking at to buy 2 kegs, regulater, disconnects, gas cylinder, dispensing tap etc. to get me started? Would I be better off...

My original reply to Waterboy's question was incorrect about never using table sugar to prime bottles with. I made that comment on this thread about the table sugar 2 years ago when I was just starting out brewing. I had a bad experience with my first beer which was a Coopers kit with a kilo of...

I would say that the beers I have conditioned for longer, say 3 months, have had a frothier, finer carbonation. Maybe I'm imagining things but I'm pretty sure this is the case. It seems more evident with all-grain brews rather than kit.

I love your handy work!! those look amazing. They definately put my wort chiller to shame. I heard on the radio today somebody was talking about the price of copper and said it's shot up by about 50% in price.

Thanks for the replies chaps !! I think I'll have to just fly by the seat of my pants and give it a try. I'm a little worried incase I end up with 10 gallons of rubbish. But I'll just have to try it and see how it turns out. Going from past experience, the beers I wasn't expecting much of have...

The reason I'd need to mash twice is that when I did a five gallon batch it used my mash tun to the brim. So I'd need to mash twice I think for a10 galon brew. My boiler and fermentor easilly hold 10 gallons though. I was just thinking that maybe as a kit it wouldn't be so good, but mixed with...

I have recently started to brew all-grain but I still have a Coopers Pale Ale Kit with a can of Coopers Light LME in my fridge. I have the 10 gallon brewery from Hop & Grape which I'd like to make a 10 gallon brew with. I've only done one 5 gallon brew so far with it. Would it be worth it to try...

Please ignore this post. I wrote it when I was first starting out brewing and it is incorrect. Table sugar is fine for priming. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Never use table sugar for brewing, it gives a nasty twang to the beer. I...

Not been doing this for long. I'm still trying to find an economical compromise on price/quality. So have been experimenting a little bit with each brew I have done. I've not tried adding any grains yet, but that will be my next step. I find that 1kg Beer Enhancer still doesn't make half as...

Hi there, Fistly, I haven't tried the youngs kit but I've made 6 Coopers kits so far. I'm fairly new to all this but have done a few batches now and learnt from trial and error, and also from advice on this forum. Try leaving your beer for 2 weeks in the fermentation bucket. Then at least 2...

Thanks mate. Much appreciated.

I have tried to find this out for a while but can't find anything. I hope this question isn't too silly but here goes anyway... Whenever I bottle condition my beers I put them in a crate and leave them for 1 week to carbonate (in the same location/temperature as the intitial fermentation)...

Hi Wez, thanks for the hasty reply. I only pitched it last night and the hydrometer reading was at about 1.050, maybe a little under. At the moment the Krausen is pretty thick and is pumping out plenty of gas and foam from the side of the lid (I don't have an air-lock). I've not used a...

This is my first post on here so hello all. :cheers: I have found this forum very useful to date and have finally got around to signing up and hopefully will be able to contribute something soon. I have just made my 2nd batch of Coopers Pale Ale. But this time around I recultured the yeast...