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Yep, I've had dealings and heard about major problems with CAMRA. 1 being that I once spoke to a young woman at a beer festival who was a member of CAMRA and on the local board . Yet offering her a drink she points out she doesn't drink ale!!!!. Asking her why on earth is she a member of...

Well it's slowly going down as it's absorbed into the beer. Though for serving I'd reduce the pressure down to about 10-12 psi . That's the good thing about the plastic pressure barrel, it's shown that you don't really need above 10-12 psi for serving.

Yeah, it's like what's your cut off point for what your willing to spend on equipment against the number of brews your actually likely to do per year?. For me, space is certainly a premium and the last thing I want is expensive (though budget is relative to income) equipment littering the place...

I was intending to start this week but for the sake of me I can't find my heated propagator so may well end up buying seedlings again which I didn't really want to do this year. Still, I also have a 250 watt duel spectrum cfl light here so might get the seedlings and start off under light until...

Thanks guys, nice to know it's likely just the beer taking on the co2. Clearly I can never see the gauge drop as I watch it, but it does slowly drop over a number of hours which surprised me as it was lightly carbonated and stored at a not ideal for lager 12° (hopefully converting the old...

So I got my co2 supply this week and started trying to use it yesterday afternoon. Connected it up as per you would and hearing slight leaks tightened things up. Used soapy water to confirm no leaks I could see. So I initially set the pressure at 35PSI (ok it's slightly higher than required)...

Kind of goes against my post above, but the Spoons round here has some great "real" ales these days. Just a shame the food is average.

Sod all the over priced pointless equipment for all grain brewing (though I fully respect the freedom of choice and opinion others have over all grain equipment & process etc). All I really invested in was a 15 litre stock pot, £20 odd, and a big hop sack for draining\filtering etc. And has...

Some BOY Yorkshire bitter. Not normally a big bitter fan, but a very slow fermentation due to lower temps has made a big difference to the ale as it's bloody lovely.

Doesn't priming with sugar add up to 0.4% abv or so anyway?.

Cheers & noted for future reference. Just realised I did have a hop sock here, just need some weights ready in case the next kit is whole hops. If as I suspect the whole hops don't all settle at the bottom of the fv I'm unsure on my options, maybe a simple hop sack over the end of the syphon...

Er, isn't Britbox available in the US & Canada?. Thought it was started up there before here and has in excess of 600,000 subscribers stateside with a strong focus on both BBC & ITV TV programs?. Ok, many might not want multiple subscriptions but I always focus on the service that has the...

The last 3 pubs I've been to for food have all been sub-standard on that front, but better on the beer. I don't nuch like pubs that have a major and stronger focus on the food than beer (as that for me is not a pub). But I do like a pub that is mainly focused on the drinks than food, sadly...

So I'm 9 days in and just done the hop addition. Ok I'm hopping on day 9 but the instructions state day 5, but I'm brewing at 16-18° again so a few° lower than the guide so I've added the hop later to account for a slower fermentation period. But in the past the hops in these kits were always...

Cracked open a bottle just now as it appeared clear. Only the carbonation mixed up some on the sediment so unable to see just how clear it really is, ah well, will have to try a second bottle later opening a little more carefully. Though it has some mixed up sediment and hop particles it...

Dam you, I want I want I want. Though what's got my attention is that most are labelled as "kegs" and food grade. First thought was "keg" so can brew in bigger volumes then!. The missus would bloody kill me if I got 1 now with when I've spent on my hobby in the last few weeks. Still, wait...

I've also some out of date grain & hops here due to a house move and work that I never got round to using. Certainly not as old as the op's but most is still several months to a few months out of date. So I might get back into all grain again next month when I have some annual leave and use...

Tried this both last night & today from the keg. Looks & tastes good, though it is cloudy and doesn't show much sign of clearing at all for some reason. Not overly concerned by this cloudy lager because as said it otherwise looks & tastes fine to me, maybe a natural affect of using a keg I...

No, just the adapter that goes straight on the disconnect as per pic.

So I'm trying to sort out just what line & bits I need to get sorted. I have the tap of cause, the thread in is 1/4 inch and so would require a male connector to go into the tap. But I'm slightly unsure on what size the other end need to be?. As if I've read correctly it's 3/8 keg end and...