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Yeah, I did think about getting the Coopers but how do they manage to stay airtight if you can't seal the cap? My preference would still be for kegging but maybe I need to make some modifications or purchase a different keg. I just want the beer to have a very light fizz and a decent head on...

I forgot to take the original gravity (stupid I know) but this is the last reading I took at the weekend. I'm not very good at reading these things but it looks to me like it has reached the final gravity yet (you wouldn't know it to taste it)

And what it should look like...

It's cloudy and flat, as you can see. The taste is very bitter more like a beer of 7-8% than 5.6. It is drinkable and doesn't taste "off" at all but it's not to my taste at all.

I think that's what I did? 🤔 So essentially I have to add more sugar? And yeast?

I hear what you're saying. I had no prior experience of kegging, just bottling but I assumed that the principles would be exactly the same but just pouring the liquid into a different container. I have a very small place and I don't like the hassle of bottles and the mess, but maybe I'm going to...

No, maybe I should get one!

Don't really know where I've gone wrong and not sure it can be rescued now 😔

Yes this is something that I have not done before so I added a little extra sugar and a touch of yeast to one of my bottles and I can already see what looks like foam at the top of the bottle whereas before there was none. Maybe I have to do the same to what's left in the keg??? 🤔

Yes I used up the entire packet that came with the kit. I transferred about 3 pints into bottles although I think that was a waste of time as I am using silicone caps which simply aren't airtight.

No, the barrel is fine. Probably because the beer is so flat and lifeless - just the opposite. Last time I tried a C02 cartridge to try liven it up but it didn't make any difference.

I added the malt extract that came with the kit, if memory serves me right. I think during primary fermentation I just added the brewers sugar which also was included in the kit.

"I left it four weeks in the barrel then transfered it to the keg" *Just to clarify by barrel I mean basic fermenting bucket made of plastic. Now it's in a plastic barrel with a dispensing tap... Hope this makes sense!!!

I left it four weeks in the barrel then transfered it to the keg where it's been sitting for another 4 weeks. I discarded a a fair amount due to there being a great deal of sediment which I didn't want to transfer to the barrel. Prior to that it had been sitting in a cupboard at about room...

This is the kit I'm using, it had the malt extract included and mine has been around for about 8 weeks now

Sorry, should have made it clear, this is a pale ale not a lager, but I still expected it to have a bit more fizz... it is completely flat, barely a few bubbles when poured from a height of a few inches. That can't be right can it???

Hi, I hope I can pick the brains of a few experienced brewers in here who can hopefully give me some guidance. I brewed my own lager back in the late 80s when I was an impoverished student /on-the-dole and the experience was enough to put me off for over 30 years. No matter how diligently I...