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hi all After much, much, much reading and a lot of time spent watching YouTube reviews I’ve decided to make the jump to all grain and purchase a grainfather. I’ve done a few all grain batches (on the hob) but with a little girl who’s just turned 1 time is at a premium so anything to speed up the...

So to close this thread off if future fools do the same thing and find this via a search... I chilled the beer to about 3degrees for 24 hours then racked into my cournys, natural carbonated for 10 days then conditioned at 12degrees for 4 weeks. It’s really not great...

I originally used the cheap plastic PBs and had regular issues. Since discovering you can get Corey’s for about £40 each (which will last a life time) I wish I’d just gone with these from day 1 The extras do add up but are all one of purchases and you defiantly save in CO2...

Ace, i think two will be fine. The bad cat however (7.5%) can easily take two weeks from experience and was the lowest (closest to the heater) so would have taken the brunt of the abuse.

At a guess around 2m. Best freecycle find ever!

The wife doesn’t go in the garage!

That sounds hopeful. It was day 11 of the primary I was in there to get some gravity readings to see how they were getting on.

Lol, I was very gentle when I put it on there the first time but it’s spread over a nice wide area. Now I heave them up and dump then down on a regular basis and they’ve never complained. It is in the garage though as imagine the mess! At some point I’ll construct...

So kicked off a triple batch (using kits) for Christmas and put them in my fermenting fridge. All fine but I messed up (I blame lack of sleep induced by a 5 week old!) and the thermostat fell out the fridge while I was checking on them. This means the heating circuit kicked in and never cut...

Cheers all, got them for under £40 a keg and couldn't resist at that price. Ended up significanty more when I added on the connectors, hoses, taps etc but man maths still says it was a bargain!

Making the jump from the cheap plastic kegs to corny kegs and have 3 kegs and a regulator etc on the way. I've done a lot of reading as I fancy trying force carbonating. One thing I can't find is if there is a 1 way valve anywhere in the CO2 route? Either in the ball valve, grey quick...

Of course that's what you were looking at :nono:

Thanks, yeah I did wonder about the kit. It was just epithet one that came with the equipment. Not my usual tipple which is why I thought I'd use it to pop my home brew cherry.

All the details I can think of are in my first post. I've done what was suggested and added some dissolved sugar and changed the seal. Used a Co2 canister and it seems to be holding pressure so will move in back into the house for a while and go from there. Thanks for the help everyone!

thanks all. Chuffed with the speed and helpfulness of the responses. The tap is definitely not leaking so I assume it's the lid. I have a spare seal as the kit came with one "normal" lid and one to add CO2. I'll steal the seal from that, put some Vaseline on and swap them over. When...

I got a homebrew kit for Xmas (Young's U-Brew) Short version Beer was a kit "Festival, Premium Ale - Spiced winter ale" It appears the secondary fermentation failed (no pressure in vessel, sweet and "tangy" tasting beer) A bit disappointed, any ideas why this could have happened as I don't...