Using polypins

[dennisking]

On a recent thread an intrest was show to how I use my polypins. It is a good way to get a real ale style beer, no added co2 but a good natural pint.
I barrel straight from the FV then leave to condition for a few weeks. Add 60-80gms of priming sugar and finings if required and move somewhere warmer until barrel expands, usually about 2 days. Move back to cooler place and allow to settle. The beer will remain in good condition for at least 2 weeks. These days I use a hand pump so don`t need to let expand as much as I find the action of the pump adds a bit of "life" right to the end of the barrel. But when I use to serve from gravity as you can see from the old photos there was plenty life in barrel right up to the end. The pint shown was the second from last out of the barrel.
This is an inexpensive way off moving on form bottles but a warning, they can burst if you are not careful. The main thing is I get the style of beer I like, a real ale rather than a gassy keg beer.

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Not sure how to get these photos up automatically

 

[TheMumbler]

how to

I see you use flickr. I've described how I do it using flickr below. There may be a better way of doing it.

Sign into flickr
find and open the picture you want to upload
select "share this"
select "Grab the html/bbcode"
select the size you want from the drop down menu (in this case I selected medium)
copy the img src (see pic below)

click the Img button and paste the img src you just copied in between the tags as shown below but without the ++ before http

which should give you this

The img src seems to include the size info but I haven't figured out how to include the alt tag

Hope that helps
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