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Hi, I want to package a beer into a 5 gallon plastic barrel for a party. the_home_brew_shop.co.uk have cheap ones... £25.... anyone have any experience of using them? They any good, or should I splash out double the price on a King Keg? I will be priming the beer with sugar and conditioning for...

Sorry for the boring topic but this is really bugging me. Try as I might I cannot get rid of condensation in my siphon hoses once I have used and washed them. I've laid them down, straightened them out, hung them up, draped them over rads, laid them in front of the fire, hung them in the cold...

Haha. I tipped it all in. I got about 2 inches of mushy hops sitting at the bottom of my carboy, so if it's a nutrient for the yeast, my yeast will be having a party. Think I'll siphon off to secondary FV in a few days after primary slows down and leave the sludge.

Yesterday I brewed my second 5g batch (a pale ale, single hopped with East Kent Goldings). A question occurred to me as I transferred the wort from boil pot to FV. Should I have transferred all the sludgy hop material? The reason I pondered the thought is because the recipe called for 75g of...

I have to cart my full carboys from house to garage, and I've seen vid clips where a handle has been fitted. I need to get a couple to fit 5 and 6 gallon glass carboys but an Amazon search shows them priced at anything from a fiver to over £50! Any recommendations on a good strong one to go for...

Interesting. I'll have a play around with this. So I add salt to finished beer before bottling, or at some other point in the process?

Hi. How do I influence the mouthfeel of my homebrew. Is it all to do with the water quality (hard water in my area), can I influence it with yeast choice? I'm looking to get a creamy/velvety mouthfeel. Cheers.

I'm a newbie too and bottled a 5gallon batch at the weekend. I siphoned from carboy to bottling bucket. I used a brilliant and very simple syphon hose clip, which clips on the rim of the bucket and holds the hose exactly where I want it and avoids any splashing. This left me free to concentrate...

Yeah. I used a sanitised muslin bag on the out end of the siphon when I transferred to bottling bucket, tied on with cotton. Seems to have worked a treat, the beer is free from stray bits of hop material. Got 32 bottles of IPA to look forward to drinking and sharing. Cheers. :cheers1:

Thanks. Yeah, I racked into secondary after fermenting in primary for 7 days.

Hi, I'm pretty excited to be bottling my first brew today. I've had my IPA in secondary fermentation for thee weeks, dry hopped for the last 7 days. I chucked the hop pellets in loose. I have a film of floating hop material on the top and looking for tips on syphoning from carboy to bottling...

Thanks, nice site. Will save me a bit of time messing about in Photoshop! Cheers.

Thanks. Interesting the guy says there is no off-milk smell.

Ah Ok... good point. Thanks for the warning.

I'll be bottling my first batch of beer at the weekend into glass bottles and want to add the finishing touch by adding a self-designed label. Any tips on type of label or adhesive to use to make sure I can get the thing off again when I come to re-use the bottle?

Will do Larry. Planning Pale next, then a Porter, still with extract. Then I'll dip a toe into All Grain and do the three styles again. Thats my plan!

Haha... I grew up in Benfleet too, near the Zach Wilsher pub. Yeah, give the micropub a visit, called Mawsons on Southchurch road. Owned by Georges Brewery over at Wakering!

Will do Larry. Planning Pale next, then a Porter, still with extract. Then I'll dip a toe into All Grain and do the three styles again. Thats my plan!