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    Easy Keg, your thoughts

    I have ordered an Easy Keg. https://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/containers/easy-keg-2181/easy-keg.html I was wondering what people think of them. All I make is kits from wilkinsons and tescos and am going to use one or two of these to store some of a 40 pint batch. What is your opinion on...
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    I want to make something like john smiths or creamflow

    I am currently drinking Geordie bitter but was hoping it would be like john smiths or worth intron cream flow but it's not. I go to testosterone and wilko for kits. Can anyone recommend a suitable option to be like them?
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    Kit Question, After bottling

    I only do kits and after around 7-10 days the mix goes in a bottle. The guides usually say to keep in the warm for 2 days and then go to a cold place for 2 weeks ish. Could that cold place be a fridge? I have a magners husky fridge where I normally keep my beers but I normally wait until the...
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    Sugar/Spray Malt

    where would I find the camden tablets to sort out my water?
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    Water for Kits

    I make only lager kits. I've been reading old posts so I do not duplicate others and read a line "Of course it goes without saying that the water used should have been treated to remove chlorine" None of the kits say to do this. Should I be doing something to the 20L approx that I add to my...
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    Sugar/Spray Malt

    As a new brewer all I do is kits from Tesco or Wilko and follow the guide to the letter. I have go a kit ready to do to the usual 23L with 1KG or sugar (wilko's own brand). I have read people putting spray malt it. The packet says it adds extra body and to replace the 500g bag for 500g of the...
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    How much water

    As a new brewer all I do is kits from Tesco or Wilko and have read people doing theirs not to the standard 23L but to 20,21 or 22. What does this do? Does it make it have more body/thicker/less watery?
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    Another Rookie Question

    I done a batch of Wilkinsons Pilsner started at 1035 down to 1005 happy days and bottled 32 500ml glass bottles and they are still in phase 2 currently 10 days in the bottle. But, the tap on my fermenter is around the 5Lt mark so am I to waste the excess or am I to carefully syphon the rest out...
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    White settlement?

    First ever batch of wilko pilsner. 1035-1005 so far so good. Bottled 2 weeks ago but there is a white residue in the bottom of the bottles. How do I stop this from happening?
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