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It's the ESB mini mash kit from themaltmiller.co.uk which is exactly the same recipe as my last brew. The only real difference I can think is the temperature - both for fermentation and prime/kegging. I probably primed it with the same amount of sugar as I did when the ambient temperature was...

Thanks for your input PhilB! I was wondering whether the change in season/temperature from the previous brew was a factor. Now to figure out how the hell I can cool a pressure barrel without spending the earth!

Interesting. I did half wonder (although looking back I expressed it extremely poorly in my initial post) whether with the internal pressure/carbonation, opening the tap was causing the inside to kind of fizz up like a coke bottle (other brands are available) and thus stirring up the sediment.

Ha! It tastes very green still

Well, it's now been three weeks since priming and kegging and it's more or less opaque still! The last brew (same recipe) was definitely clear by now. Any suggestions to rescue it, or am I doomed to a few weeks of drinking cloudy beer? I'm reluctant to go down the finings route, only because I...

Ah no, that picture was my first brew. I brewed, decanted, cleaned, then recanted :) This one I brewed in a separate bucket. Okidoke, I'll give it longer. Thanks!

A week and a half

So this is my second brew (same kit/recipe). The brew is primed and in my pressure barrel (pictured in my profile pic!) When I pour it from the barrel it comes out very hazy (virtually opaque) but seems to settle eventually, with a yeast sediment. Which suggests to me it is clearingin the...

Great advice - thank you both!

Thanks! I have an airlock fitted in the lid I'm currently using (I have another without). Do you reckon I'll get away with it for this brew? Just wondering if it's worth the hassle to try and siphon it into another container, clean the barrel and siphon it back? I imagine that would result in...

Hi there! Apologies if this isn't strictly the right place for this. I was gifted a pressure barrel so I thought I'd use it to brew in (my first homebrew). The brew is currently fermenting in the barrel - fingers crossed I haven't cocked it up! Anyway, my question is, at the end of the...