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Try whitley bridge car boot just off the m62 @ j 34 (A19) . Or Rufforth car boot near York. I was going for quite a few weeks before I started and the only thing I found was a Wilkinson starter fv kit to make 20 pints. Imho I think your better off looking on eBay for cheap stuff locally . :cheers:

Hi I made one of these last Saturday afternoon and its been in the fv for over a week now , fermentation started after about 24 hours and is still bubbling away slowly to itself . Temp is around 20-21 º but I like to give them around 2 weeks in the fv just to be on the safe side then I do a...

I too have just put a coopers stout on with 500g extra dme and 500 g wheat malt and made up to 22 litres . On day 2 it had blown all the water out of the air lock and some stout all over the lid of the fv but it smells lovely tho . :cheers:

Got mine for £6 in a sale and made it up with 500g dark spray malt and 500g dextrose Left it to do its magic and left for 3 weeks in the fv before bottling. Its now been left for about 6 weeks and have tried more than several bottles and each one has no head it just looks similar to pint of...

Just done a mild same as this, made with dark spray malt and dextrose Lovely carbonation but no head it looks like a glass of cola (but tastes a lot better than cola) :cheers: Dorrian

Hi and welcome to the forum. I too have recently come back to home brewing and again like you can't believe how good the kits have got ( compared to when I used to brew 20+ years ago). Dont be afraid to ask if you need advice :cheers: Dorrian

I'm quite fortune I have a lad that lives locally that sells 40 bottles for a tenner (empty of course) all de labeled and cleaned :cheers:

Hi and welcome :cheers:

Hi and welcome. ...... your now on the slippery slope that we all seem to be on :cheers:

Was looking at one of these kits in my lhbs yesterday and couldn't decide between the straight apple or one of the flavoured ones . Think ill pick the apple one up next time I pass to put in my barrel :cheers:

I prime with normal sugar , I have tried dextrose to prime but I find I get better carbonation using normal sugar :cheers:

I call at one on my way to work but to be honest I only call if I need anything quite quickly as when you go in the owner doesn't seem to want to help you very much . To be honest I don't know why people are in business if they're like that :cheers:

Hi and welcome bar fly , which part of South Yorkshire are you from ? :cheers:

Meant to say bottle 20 without priming and 20 with :cheers:

Why not try half n half thats what im going to try on my next brew , I too am not overly keen on fizz but I don't mind a little :cheers:

I have one of these kits as my next batch and on reading this thread like the sound of using muscovado sugar and a kilo of dme not sure I want the coffee and vanilla in but it will be my first attempt at stout so I may tweak my next batch :cheers:

Probably a silly question but where do you buy your muscovado sugar from ? :cheers:

Hi and welcome You've come to the right place for advice

Hi and welcome. Let us know how you get on I recently started home brewing again and have been bitten by the bug and I don't know if it's lucky for me or not but we have a lad in our village who is a keen home brewer and gets hold of kits and equipment really cheap . He normally texts me to...

I would second that advice , if you do have a spare fv syphon the lager out of your primary fv once all activity has stopped then a few days extra . I have done this with mine and I find you get less sediment in your bottles , im not trying to get rid of it all but just cut it down and I find...