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You can but you will find a steriliser and cleaner works better because it cleans as well. If your keg is perfectly clean and just needs sterilising then this doesn't matter.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703/img3092u.jpg/ I made a small hole in the top of the cardboard box that the pressure nozel pokes through. You can't see the hole beacuse it's covered by the binbag. This keeps the box centred over the barrel and stops it wobbling about (and allows the...

I stretched a large black bin liner over a carboard box to make a water proof(ish) blacked out box. I placed this box over the beer barrel. This keeps out the light out of the beer, stops the sunlight directly heating the pressure barrel and means that people walking past my front garden don't...

My understanding (strictly limited) is that you add sugar at the start of the secondary fermentation partly for the fizz and partly for the effects on clarity and taste that fermenting a second time has on the beer, as well as the benefits of syphoning the beer from the primary fermentation...

Just a quick question regarding the secondary fermentation; I think i may not have put enough sugar in at this stage. I tested a small amount after 4 days and found it not particularly fizzy. The Previous time i tried making beer i put too much sugar in and the beer was extremely fizzy after a...

Thanks for the info and the reassurance. I won't worry about it fermenting more quickly this time then, but i'll probably leave it for 10 days before putting it in the pressure barrel as that seemed to work well the first time around. I've almost finished off the first load of beer i made...

Hi there, I recently started home brewing as it's something i've always wanted to do and i've got the space for once. Also i'm hoping to save money on buying beer, and was surprised at the quality of the stuff i produced on my first attempt. I have a brewing bucket and also a pressure...