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Hi Thanks for checking the measurements for me. I can't resist a bargain, so I bought the cap before buying a barrel. Probably not the best approach. The actual Lakeland cap isn't the one in the picture, which seems to be the same picture as I have seen for the Youngs cap. This one...

Hi folks I have just picked up a pressure barrel cap with CO2 fitting from Lakeland. It was only when I looked carefully that I noticed that it is described as a fitting a 2.25" (60mm) neck: http://www.lakeland.co.uk/52451/Pressure-Barrel-Top I can't find anyone who makes a 60mm...

Hi folks I was just about to buy a 25 litre plastic bucket FV off Amazon, when I started to read the reviews. I realise that not all plastic buckets are the same. I have learnt the "buy cheap buy twice" lesson and do not need any revision!! What make/model of fermentation vessel do you...

It is whole grain. I think I'll take a chance and leave if for a while. I have just made one batch of the AG kit and fancy a go at something else before I make another batch.

Hi Folks I have a couple of kits that are nearing their sell-by dates. One is an AG kit and there is a date (next Sunday) printed on the sealed pack of malt grain. The second is a canned Malt Extract kit, which has a few more months before its sell-by date. Does anyone have...

I am glad to see you followed due process. It seems very hard to get rid of someone, unless they have had all the warnings etc, and not find yourself having to pay them for unfair dismissal. I've had to let people go in the past. I work for myself now with no employees and I don't miss the...

Thanks for the advice on this. In the end I decided it was more hassle than it was worth. By the time I had rewired it, cleaned it top to toe, getting rid of a load of lime scale deposits, and budgeted for replacing the tap and temper and controls, I would have been in the realms of marginal...

Thanks Fil, I realise that I will need to take a course in the arcane language of brewing. Dunk/sparging is new to me. Is that different to normal sparging?

Hi folks, I have a chance of getting a working 10 gallon Burco, which I am guessing dates back to the 60s. It is galvanised outside and steely looking inside. If I get this it will cost me my petrol money and about a fiver for the boiler, all in all somewhere in the region of £15...

A 2.5% pale would be great. Maybe that should be my aim.

Pasteurisation sounds a bit complicated😉

I'm in the heart of the tourist area in Grasmere.

Hi folks This is my first post, so please bear with me! I would like to have a go at a low alcohol brew, such as Brew Dog's Nanny State, but I have no idea where to start. Is there something in particular that you have to do differently to end up with a flavoursome low alcohol brew...

Hi everyone Just returned to home brewing after a 30 year gap. I picked up a craft beer Munton kit on offer at Lakeland. Things have certainly come on a lot since my last home brewing efforts. So I now have a demijohn on the kitchen worktop bubbling away to its heart's content...