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Sort of became a Christmas song by accident but it's great.

Yep the beer is so much better now. Thanks for all the advice I took it all as intended this forum is a massive help to newcomers.

Mine just used to go onto shelves in the garage so different times of the day and different times of year could cause a swing. Now it's controlled and seems much better.

Am doing exactly the same for carbonation purposes and so far it seems to make a massive difference. Was just a step I didn't pay enough attention to previously. Also use inkbird and fridge with a heatpad inside.

I do similar these days and have not found off tastes or infections as yet.

Opened one tonight after 2 weeks in the bottle and my beer finally has a head. Excited to retry my favourite Belgian one again now. Not sure how I missed this step when starting out as I did read a lot or maybe I thought the ambient temperature was sufficient perhaps. Gonna leave them in the...

23 Litres of St Peter's IPA from a kit. (An out of date kit but it's all worked fine). Total 6,277 litres

I've taken a break lately from making ale but am back to it. Tonight I bottled an IPA and have got everything in place for temperature control. Have an unplugged fridge with a heatpad inside connected to an inkbird and have it settled at 20 degrees so will leave all the bottles in there for some...

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Thanks I might just post them on Facebook marketplace then and give them away I wouldn't be after money for them.

Anyone know the correct way to get rid of full bulbs? I've binned the barrels so want to also get rid of these but not sure of the legal requirements to do so safely. I've searched around but not found anything definitive for full ones. Thanks in advance.

Most of the pubs around here are Star. They are too greedy I've heard the area manager say in the pub people are stupid and will pay what he wants them to pay. So I don't go any more just to make him wrong. The local is empty these days after reopening with cheaper prices then ramming them up...

Had a rice cooker for Christmas just tried it for the first time. Need to get the ratio of water to rice a little better but it's so easy and quick I guess my diet has started :laugh8:

Sounds a lot of arghi bhaji.

Merry Christmas all. Got some nice Belgian beer in the fridge.

@Clarence I went through your points and think I might have identified a major omission in my process. I've been bottling the beers and putting them in my garage so it sounds like I am missing the step of keeping them warmish for a few weeks before putting them in the fridge. I do have a spare...

Here's Scruff when I had her and now she's all grown up.

Will give it another 2 weeks till Christmas then I'll do that.

Thanks for all the replies. I will give it all plenty of thought before brewing my next one. I should have included my main disappointment is with the Belgian Blond I like to make. It tastes wonderful but I just want more head and life. I like ales without too much going on so those have been...

Trying to keep this short. I've made a dozen or more all grain brews now and loved the taste of each one. However I have been disappointed by the carbonation and head in them mostly. I've tried to follow suggested measures of drops (I've not used table sugar yet), I tried pressure barrels...