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Is there a notable difference in upgrading from plastic to stainless conical? Thinking of upgrading

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Hi, the handle on my tap isn’t easy to move Backwards/forward. Normally a swift blast of wd40 would fix this but I’m not sure in this case. Any way to service these?

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Those stainless steel hop tube things, do you just put your hops in and throw it into the fermenting bin loose? I use a fast ferment conical fermenter if that makes any diffference

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cheers, just bought a few more shank & faucet sets.

Bought a 100mm shank for my faucet, appears I may have bought a shank thats not compatible with my faucet - per pic below. Is there an adapter I can buy to fit them together or do I need to buy a different type of shank/faucet? ta

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Have a few sets of bottles & crates for sale. Bottles are brown 500ml and crates are the green plastic stackable ones. 1 crate filled with 20 bottles, £20 Local collection only, Birmingham

As title, wasn’t fully concentrating and added the flavouring sachet in with the yeast, etc at the start. I don’t think it’s the end of the world and the only impact will be flavour won’t be as strong? should I source and add another flavouring sachet at the correct time?

I thought hops were one time use only. I buy kits, are we saying that the fairly solid mash that the hops turn into after 5 days in the FV can be reused?

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good idea, will tryathumb..

Recently bought a fridge to fit my FastFerment conical for cold crashing. Read somewhere that you're not supposed to keep the airlock on when its in the fridge and seal it up with a cap. I now know that this is poor advice :laugh8: Only the 2nd brew in it from brand new too!!

Hi there, I've got a ciderworks brew on the go at the moment. I havent done a cider before but loads of ales, lagers, etc. Its just finished primary, I assume I need to do a secondary ferment on a cider (take it off the trub and let it sit dropping remaining particles for another week)?? If so...

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To answer my own question, I just took it out of the conical and moved it to a standard Fermenter before fermentation started. Definitely did the right thing as the bentonite was just like a clay and the trub would’ve just sat on top of it. To conclude, conical fermenter not good for this kit...