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Interestingly, I've had a couple of quite OK experiences with re-using supermarket kegs. Old Speckled and Hobgobln. One time the brew was a Bulldog Hercule Saisin, the other I don't recall. KEg-conditioning carbed up prettywell; needed to let the foam settle a bit after filling a glass; kept...

I've used DME occasionally as a booster for a kit, in combination with brewing sugar (dextrose) - I did find it clumped terribly but could get round the worst of it by pre-mixing the dry ingredients so that the sugar and malt were added at the same time. Kind of like pre-mixing sand and cement...

I sometimes see people on phones wen I am drivin and think "I wish I could take a picture and report them ..." ... Ahem.

I am feeling a bit stuck with my one keg. I lost my first SodaStream cylinder-full when I had a brainf*rt and misconnected a heating belt, thereby melting the CO2 pipe from regulator to keg. Bought a CO2 refill for the SS cylinder, connected up, drew a nice few glasses, then came down a few days...

Wish I was closer, I'd have joined the queue for the CO2 parts. But I'd have missed the bus anyway.

Now that's ingenious!!

I think I am approaching coming full circle on this. I started, like many I suspect, using the 'one flat teaspoon per pint' sugar straight into the bottle. Turn the bottle over a couple of times after closing the swing top and watch the sugar granules come down like a snow globe. Sometimes the...

That (@Banbeer) is my concern - OK you might have enough CO2 from secondary fermentation in the keg to push out some of the beer but then what? If you have the beer in a 'pressure barrel' then you can atleast dispense a (flet) beer through gravity. With a keg it seems like you have no option but...

Good points @RWaB. I do try to give the wort a bit of welly as I am mixing it, not just round and round but edge to centre like mixing a pudding, but that's more during the initial mix when there's more room to shake it about. (I also like seeing how high I can hold the pan as I pour in...

That was my first thought too, reassuring to know it's not uncommon... ... but that's a very interesting idea. bit of CO2 adhering to the iSpindel would have that effect on the readings, while it's hard to imagine denser brew rising to the top to make the device think the SG has risen.

Hello, thi seems a bit odd. I started off a Bulldog Evil Cat a week ago. iSpindel said it started at 1065 and then after a few hours went UP to 1071, stayed there for a few hours then camee down quite rapidly over the course of a couple of hours to the level you'd expect if it was behaving...

After my previous whoopsie connecting up my keg for the first time, I got a refill SodaStream exchange (*) an have been happily pulling quite decent glasses of a Morgans Old Toucan: serving pressure around 12psi; the kit came with a rather long 3/16 beer pipe which I have not yet cut so it's...

I believe the intention of the 'potential alcohol ABV' is that you make a note of the initial value at the start of fermentation, and take a reading at the end and subtract the end value from the start one. Some older hydrometers do use that wording.

we loved The Good Place; watched one episode of Schitt Creek and gave up. Can't please all of the people all of the time... We just started watching the adaptation of Isac Asimov's Foundation - it's on AppleTV but you can get a free 30 day trial I think. It seems to bear very little resemblance...

SO315AP. quite close to #43, I see. Helloo..!

Hello! So I got a new SodaStream refill, and connected the beer-gun to the beer out post, the regulator through a stopvalve to the gas in post, and the SS to the regulator. The brew had been self-carbonating in the keg for a couple of weeks - I drew a tester through the beer gun off the keg's...

When I was a basic grade brewer with one FV I spooned the sugar ino each bottle and it was generally fine. Afer coming to this forum I introduced a bottling bucket & wand, and batch priming. The bottling process is certainly smoother and easier but interestingly I have found that my carbonation...

Sheesh. Kinda wish that the train had side facing cameras to capture the wally's number plate.

West Coast IPA would be lovely