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I’m sure it’s lovely. I can trump you though. My nephew helps me brew from time to time so as a thank you I brewed his favourite beer with him, Doom Bar. Opened the first bottle last night and it is as black as the night! Looks like he’s getting 40 pints of stout instead. I will will be...

Great news as I have my first Helles fermenting away. Not sure if you keg? If so, how long did you manage to keep it in the keg before drinking?

Good to hear that went well. Mine is the kids version so hopefully that wild yeast do some of the heavy lifting 😂

It couldn’t have been easier to make to be fair. Very low ABV, about 3% I think and as it was peak pandemic I used a little bread yeast. It went down like free ice cream. From my understanding, the biggest danger is mould growing in the elderflower during fermentation. 5 days worked last year...

A cheeky half day at work so it was a chance to stock up from the local brewery. Tasty 😋

I'm going to knock up some elderflower champagne this weekend and realised I have a spare 9L corny. My theory is that rather than burping loads of plastic bottles I can just do it in the corny and serve it in my keezer. I will ferment it for about 5 days in a FV and it will be a very low ABV...

Well worth dipping your toe into brewing software. I use Beersmith, you can enter the recipes you have already tried as a starter and after a few brews it learns your set up. You dial in your equipment and losses of water and wort at the different stages via whatever vessels you are using. I...

I found Facebook marketplace and Gumtree better. There’s more people that just want things shifted. Good luck.

Yep, you will pretty much be advised 3 different ways to do one thing each of which is possibly both right and wrong. I guess everyone has their own way of doing their thing but you are in the right place for invaluable advise.

Are you sure it had finished fermenting? Did you take 2 gravity readings a day apart and they were the same?

I’ve recently just set myself up with cornys and I used BrewKegTap. I just emailed them what I wanted to achieve and they put the whole bundle together for me. They do new and reconditioned.

After 3 extract kits I planned on doing a stove top/ partial mash set up but the pandemic kicked in. The equipment was selling out in the shops I was looking at so I went straight into all grain. I don’t have a fancy set up, I batch spare with the big cooler mash tun, no all in one. I have...

Can't be any harm in leaving it alone. I've recently had it with a lager and after a few more weeks in the warmth it was good to go.

Funny you should say that. My 2 shiny new corny's arrived this morning. wink... Consider my game "upped"

I’ve painted untold furniture in my 20+ years as a decorator. I painted my brew fridge last year with 3 coats of water based blackboard paint. Blackfriars I think. First I keyed it with 120 grade sandpaper and wiped it with ESP, which is an easy surface primer. It helps the paint to bond...

I have only been brewing for just over a year and only on this forum since last summer. Obviously we have all been locked down for the most part of that. I was wondering if in 'normal times' is there usually a convention/ trade fare or anything similar? It seems nuts if not. Who doesn't like...

Well, the good news is that a few weeks in the warmth of my bathroom has sorted it out. It has more carbonation and more importantly tastes better with no 'sharp' taste. I have polled a few lager drinking mates with it and they love it. Thanks for the advice and I think @foxbat must have hit the...

Ah, the answer to the question I was yet to ask. I didn’t think about the taps coming through the wood side. I was going to put a tower on top and was worried that when opening the lid they would smash against the wall.

20 litres of Black IPA 20 litres of Pilsner 20 litres of Tropical Stout (Now I have written it down it looks like I may have a problem. It's only mid March and no one else in my house drinks)wink... Total - 5,914

Good luck Syd, you have entered the rabbit hole. This time next year you will be asking how to build your own keg system 😂 Great advice on here and YouTube. I hope you enjoyed chemistry at school? I used to love Smuggled Otter from the Otter brewery but sadly they don’t seem to make it any more.