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Me "I am looking for a mini regulator for a CO2 tank" Dealer "You can't use one of those on a CO2 Tank, you need at least this 2 gauge one at £60" Me "Why can't I use a mini one?" Dealer "The pressure will probably blow it apart" Me "You don't know much about physics then do you?" Dealer "What's...

I'm glad I'm not the only one. But I hadn't thought of temperature appropriate yeast, I need to research that.

That's 18c now, we still have mild weather, I think it drops to around 14c Jan/Feb time

I'm in.

Ordered a 2nd corny today, this time with a CO2 regulator for "pub gas" bottles. Also ordered a heat belt and a carbonation cap. The heat belt because my room is around 18c and the carbonation cap so friends can take a few bottles of my brews home. It was difficult to find pub gas suppliers...

First thing I did with this kit was check how much sugar it needed, replaced that with brew enhancer then threw the instructions away. I mixed the ingredients, in the FV waited for temp to drop to 20c, pitched the yeast then left it alone. In every kit I have ever tried the instructions are...

Sodastream.co.uk do refills

I am quaffing a Coopers Mexican Cerveza, bottled 3/10/19, carbonated quite nicely after only 16 days and has a lovely taste, this batch may not reach maturity as I have drunk almost half of it already :beer1:

Ish... 20psi if that's the level of carbonation you like and the only way to work that out is to play, currently I am now at 15psi to see what carbonation that gives me as I felt 20psi for water was a bit too bubbly

You're correct, it won't, my bad, it's been 43 years since I left school and I forget a lot of this stuff.

The pressure will drop as the CO2 dissolves into the liquid, also when you are drawing off the liquid, you are also drawing off pressure as well

I am down to 15L in the corney ( 1L of water weighs 1KG at sea level, that's how you can quickly tell how much is in a corny, weigh it on bathroom scales and subtract the weight of the empty corny and fittings) and the pressure dropped to about 13psi after drawing the last litre off so I have...

It's almost time to keg my latest cider brew . Things I have learnt by experiment. It takes 7 days and 5 x 16g CO2 bulbs to force carbonate 18.5L of water at a room temp of 21c and a pressure of 20PSI. Things still to learn. Whilst I am waiting for the finings to do their stuff on the cider...

Seems a bit pointless if I get pub gas, might as well run the keg from that rather than piss around refilling sodastream cylinders.

I have one of these cheapy ATC ones purchased from ebay and I use it all the time, BUT only to check if my brew is ready, if it shows that the gravity hasn't moved for 3 days then fermenting is done. Saves taking out 100ml each time for a trial jar and hydrometer test. I will use the hydrometer...

I bottled mine into 500ml Grolsch style brown swing top bottle, 3.5g of brewing sugar in each bottle. After 13 days it's carbed up quite nicely, no real head but it's got that lovely ( what I call throat burn) that a nicely chilled (5c) and nicely carbed beer has.

That's the information I needed, thank you, however by trial and error I have already discovered this. As for the other question about connecting pub gas, it looks like I probably could but I strongly suspect if I did my poor little regulator couldn't handle it. ( that said, isn't all CO2 the...

I think I got the better deal :laugh8:

I just drew off a pint glass, added some sodastream lemon and lime syrup and it was quite a nice refreshing drink. As the water was quite fizzy I am sure the pressure drop was because the CO2 is being absorbed into the water.

Sitting here drinking my home brewed Mexican Cerveza. It's still "young" as it's only been maturing for 11 days but it's carbonating up quite well. Chilled to 5c it goes down quite nicely.