my new 4.5 Gal Casks

[Devonhomebrew]

I got 3 pins with Langabeer Brewing written on them. Im going to get everything else from barley bottom like:
2 x Cask Tap £23.98
2 x Cask Turn Down Spout £13.98
1 x Keystones (RP) Pack of 10 £1.99
1 x Shives £2.39
1 x Spile/Peg - Hard £1.49
1 x Spile/Peg - Soft £1.59

Help will be very helpful. :thumb:

 

[abeyptfc]

alright geo nice one! do u ferment your beer in the cask and serve or do u transfer from fv to cask after a week or so? just wondering how you get serving pressure.

 

[Devonhomebrew]

for the casks i got ferment til 1 bubble every 1 min then transfer to cask prime with 30g of sugar to get 1 unit of carb. After 3 weeks do all the jobbys then serve.

 

[bigcat]

Did you get them from brewery plastics?, if so was the price the same as the list i emailed you. Im very tempted to go down the firkin and pin route myself

 

[Devonhomebrew]

yes it was £110 roughly for 3 pins including vat and shipping

 

[Darcey]

I really really want a couple of pins... but for the price and in plastic I will always buy a cornie instead. As the summer is coming up i'll prob need a cooling jacket.. and a cooler... but one day i'll have to bite the bullet.

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[Vossy1]

Nice buy DHB Please let us know how you get on with them, we don't see many on the forum :thumb:

 

[Stone Cold]

nice!

 

[Devonhomebrew]

I will let you guys know and maybe do a how to when i get to know how they work proper

 

[stu brew]

Iv been quoted as follows
Cask price £42.00 each
Shive price £0.20 each
Shive spanner £5.00 each
Embossed name plate £250.00 one of cost
Transport to Leicester £45.00
And that's on ten but for a sample cask it was £67.32 from http://www.globalpolymersolutions.co.uk/ I'm getting some samples so il let you know :-)

 

[critch]

both have their plus's and minus's the brewery plastics are fragile(they burst....) and the keystone and shive holes vary in size quite dramaticly, but if your not dropping them down pub delivery drops they should last

the gps ones are tougher and have a guarentee(try claiming on the brewery plastics one, i have! :evil: ), but the pastics softer and if you damage the face on the shive theyre buggered, the shives are harder to breach and they dont stack as well as the brewery plastic ones and can slide on stillages if your not careful but over all theyre infinately superior to the brewery plastic efforts imo

 

[Darcey]

I walked past Robinson's in Stockport the other day and noticed they had 100+ pins in the yard. I assume they are casking old tom. I did ask last winter but they wont sell or rent me any metal ones .

Soon.. soon...