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I am fed up now (putting it politely) with the King keg. I can not get either of these kegs to maintain pressure. I have been brewing for over 50 years and for 20 years I had a Hambleton Bard beer SPHERE. Never a problem. It is about time I looked elsewhere and Cornelius comes to mind. Any help...

Hi. am trying to find a cap bottler for beer bottles. Can someone point me at some links. I can only find corkers for wine bottles.

Thanks for that. A blast from the past. Showing your age. Might get some ideas ot of this one. Thanks.

okay. well if any of you can throw some fun ideas for disasters apart from the obviouse exploding bottles.

The comedy is around a group of old men having a go at making home made beer in a shed behind their wives back. Packed with lots of technical info and disasters. Should be an eye opener for the would be home brewer and a laugh for profesionals.

Come on. This is a comedy about home brew. Now do you or don't you know this?

Hi. I have been brewing beer now for decades. I am also a comedy script writer and want to do one around home brew. I need to check some details around tax and vat. According to my findings (UK) for a 5% pint Tax = 19.08p per percentage per litre VAT is 20% and that also means VAT on the tax as...

Thanks for your help This wine is now ready for bottoling but I have discovered something else. See NEW thread Beaverdale.

Hi. I bought a 30 bottle Rojo Tinto and am in the process of bottling it. Yesterday I drew off one bottle for a Sunday lunch. I still had 3 bottles left of a Beaverdale Shiraz and being a bank holiday Monday to follow decided to have a Christmas dinner. Sounds crazy but I still had 1kg of Turkey...

I make home made wine as well as beer and use the plastic wine fermenters for rhe beer. Smaler hole in the top but who cares. I wrap it up with a quilt and bung it in the corner.

I get a bit of a head on it when pour it but it soon dispearses. don't have one of thouse sprinkler taps. The beer is inside at room temperature (21-22c). I am unable to keep it cool anywhere else and we are going into summer, however I have been brewing beer for over 50 years in total. I got...

I have been brewing beer for over 30 years using a hambelton bard beer sphere. Since I have had king kegs, I have never had a successful pint. I argued with a home brew shop who told me JUST PUT IT IN SEAL IT AND LEAVE IT. I put sugar in to prime it and after sealing it put a little gas in using...

No not fizzy but I check the bubbles on the surface. I was told to shake the wine very vigurasly to make sure no gas before continuing. I never shook the wine before. What I have had in the past is, I open a bottle of wine at dinner and half a bottle left, I put in a rubber bung (Pictured...

What I find is very badly written instructions. (copy attached). The Beaverdale instructions are very badly put together. For example, Add the stabiliser HOWEVER. Why follow this with a HOWEVER. - - - make absolutely sure the wine has completely stopped. This implies do not add the stabiliser...

Can't taste if it has been degassed just that it tastes ok for a cloudy wine. Should I add the stabaliser as normal and give a good shake? Hopfuly all the CO2 gas bubbles on the surface should disapear. Feel beter when no bubbles on surface and no sign of any CO2 beore bottoling.

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Hi. Latest update on this wine. I let it ferment out but kept a close eye on it. Strangly it seemed to go into hyper drive and a large pink foam on the surface. The wine has fermented out with a reading of 996 for several days. I transfered most of it into another bin. I sealed it and gave it a...

Okay but can't take sugar out. I have never reached the sg figures on the sheet but with the added 1kg I have 1.090 which gives me a comfortable 11.8% I thought this would be dry but if fruity means sweet then probably not ideal for dinner. I prefer dry with tannins so it refreshes the papat...

Hi. I have checked the label and it's fine. My guess is that the 1kg of sugar I had added had not desolved properly. After a good stir it read 90c. Over last 3 days it has gone from 90 to 60 to 40 today. Looks like 90 was the true reading possibly a bit more but it is going down now. Todays...

What I do is use one similar to your first pic. I have a large 300W heater set to about 21c. Because of the lead I can't put the lid on properly. What do is have clean steralised cloths over the top, lid lies on that. I wrap it in it's tea cosey ( nice single douvet and a pillow on top to keep...