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I unscrewed the output valve from the manifold (which takes some doing as they're tight) and they appear to be sealed units to my untrained eye. There is also the shared headspace problem that peebee identified. I've ordered some more of the Clesse regulators and I'm going to put together a...

@jjsh What secondary regulators do you use? The Kegland Duotight ones seem to be out of stock everywhere (even on AliExpress)

Originally, the primary went into a secondary (a Clesse LPG regulator) which then went into the manifold. Because the Clesse regulator has a low output (a max of c. 2psi) it seems that its output is too low to pass through the check valves on the manifold. I've therefore removed the secondary...

@BarnBrian The gas line is going straight from the regulator to the manifold. If I set the regulator to 20psi I will have very fizzy cask ale!

As a follow up to this (and in case anybody else tries to research a similar problem in the future) through returning to the original AliExpress listing I discovered that these manifolds suffer a loss of pressure of 2psi between the inlet and outlet due to the check valve. The manufacturer...

British Steel is Chinese owned sadly. Before that it was Indian owned

This one is for our resident hand pull experts or anyone who uses a gas manifold. I have 4 hand pumps with 4 kegs on at the same time. I feed the CO2 into a low pressure gas regulator (the Clesse regulator recommended by @peebee) which then runs into a 4 way manifold. I had my dark mild...

This info is great, especially if you want to log the malts into Brewfather. There isn’t much Muntons stuff already logged on there

I just came on here to suggest the Aldi kamado. I managed to get one about 3 years ago. I have to say it is a game changer if you want that deep, intense smoke bbq flavour that you get from smokehouses. You need some decent quality lumpwood charcoal and wood chunks for smoking, but they're easy...

I don't find it difficult, but it requires some discipline. It's also easier if you use brewing software like Brewfather which calculates starter sizes based on pitching rates for the style and gravity of the wort and also the amount you want to overbuild the starter. You also need some jam...

For those in the market for one, there is a job lot of nice looking Angram hand pumps on FB marketplace at the moment in Manchester. They look fairly new and have the more modern black and chrome finish. Probably from a pub or bar that's gone bump. Not super cheap, but it looks like the guy may...

The magazine is correct. The received wisdom is that pressure stresses yeast and stops it behaving in the way it wants to, hence the reduction in esters

I don't think it's a problem near the end of fermentation which is when the OP is saying he will increase the pressure. The objective of increasing the pressure at the end is simply to carbonate the beer with free CO2 which will then be absorbed by the beer during cold crash. IMHO, you could...

I'll be in touch. For those that haven't used it before, the Clear Choice Extra Pale is excellent and seems to be a stock base malt for many commercial NEIPAs

Good call and they seem to be closer to the squatter, milk bottle like shape of the ones I have

Comparing them to online photos, they do look a bit like the Rochefort bottles, but I would have thought they would be thicker??

I'm planning on bottling a Belgian dark strong at the weekend which I've been batch conditioning for a couple of months. I'm aiming for a high carbonation of around 3 volumes of CO2 so I need some bottles I can depend on. I have about 40-50 Duvel bottles which I'm confident in, for obvious...

Is that with or without the slug cack and spiders' nests?

I use maltodextrin to bring back the body and a little sweetness post-fermentation if it has over-attenuated. It works well for that

The NBS Ale Yeast is repackaged Fermentis S04 (or at least I believe it is as the stats for both are identical). A 3 day finish for that yeast isn't unusual, especially if it was done on the warmer side. If you'd used Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire (which is the yeast that comes with the MM premium...