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Hello Mate, I am pretty new to this as well so thought I would try to pass on my small amount of knowledge.... If you are bottling, all conditioning and carbing should be done in the bottle If you have kegged, as soon as you start trying to transfer to bottle you are going to lose most of your...

I think thats the way I will be going when I upgrade my polykegs. Out of interest, where are these 10 quid kegs if they are legit they might be a bargain, I dont think you are too far away from me either. The other issue with the old ones is getting the spear out which can apparently be a...

I have just got my polykegs up and running, had my first beer out of it last night which was far too early so a bit flat. The good thing about them is that they use all the same stuff as normal kegs so if I want to upgrade to proper metal sankey kegs I will have all the equipment. I have heard...

Mine is secondary English in a nice rough school in Warrington, unbelievable what goes on, we best stop as I could go on about teaching forever. My Mum was primary, its just as bad, just different problems. Having said that, one of the only teachers who I know is happy, works in a special...

Mine went and bought a card for herself from me which I thought was nice of her! I would like to use the "its all a gimmick, I don't need to show my love on a particular day" but to be honest I never show her! A new teacher! Tell her not to do it, mine is 7 years in and its hell!

I am exactly the same, got into homebrew through a mates Dad, found this forum and never looked back, the amount of infomation I have got trawling through the historic pages is amazing. Now I have 8 kit brews in 6 months and I am loving it, a hobby that you can lose yourself in and it actually...

I think the pop bottles are perfect for what you want and you can get 17p water from most supermarkets if you cant find enough iron brew ones. Also you need to add some more sugar to the bottles while you are topping up with flat beer so it carbs up. Have a look on the forum for amounts, for a...

Hello mate, Firstly I thought I would answer not because I am an expert but because I am a beginner so might be able to answer some questions from closer to your own knowledge level if you see what I mean. There are a lot of questions to get through but here goes! A fermenter is required, its...

I have not long done a Wherry. Personally I think it did get better around the 7 week mark but before then its not a bad beer at all. If its your first one, it might be worthwhile supping one a week and try to see the changes. Then you will know for next time and you get to drink beer! I...

Good work, I would probably want it a bit lower before bottling, I cant remember what mine ended up with but closer to 1010 would be better. It is a lovely beer, well worth the wait. I have just freed my fermenter up so have the choice to either put another Wherry on or go for the Wilko's...

doesnt that mean that you are drinking flat beer?

The wine loft in St Helens is my local, being from St Helens (sorry!). They are amazing, for a new brewer they have been so helpful, I cant speak highly enough. My mates dad said he went years 40 years ago so they have plenty of experience! I am not sure how well stocked they are compared to...

I think you can see from this that there is no right or wrong way, both batch priming and bottle priming work. Personally I batch prime and find that works really well (for the small amount of brews I have done) and is lots easier than putting a small amount of sugar in every bottle. This...

For the really tough ones I splashed out and went for "sticky stuff remover". I got mine from Lakeland but I am sure Aldi sold it a while ago. Got a tip, probably from this forum to fill the bottle with boiling water which weakens the glue and enables you to pull the label off, then I apply...

If you use the raising bottle trick don't you have to start your siphon all over again by sucking down the tube? My bottling wand broke so I made one. I just cut my tube at about a bottle length then fitted the little tap that should go at the end of the tube in the middle, with bottle length...

I would say you can get a decent Lager. Im just beginning, done 8 kits so far, my first was the very cheap Geordie Lager made with brewing sugar and that was nice, maybe not to everyones taste but I would not say bad. It came out very light, quite watery mouth feel, its not a stella or...

Don't do it down, the Wherry is a good one, one of my favourites so far (not done that many though). I know you may not have thought about it yet but have a good think about how much sugar your going to prime with. I bottled mine and next time I do it (I have 2 of these waiting for my FV to be...

I know this is probably going to be unpopular but am I the only one on here that wants politicians to be on a decent wage? Its all very well saying pay them 50 grand but if they are any good they will just go and work for a private company where they can earn hundreds of thousands a year more...