Recent content by tonybaloni

I'm not sure about drugs but I suspect they add some sort of bicarbonate of soda to certain cheaper beers in the UK causing bloating. It has the effect of not being able to drink too many beers . The same product can be bought in more affluent area's without this bloating effect. Yet in...

In Britain home-brew is far cheaper than buying commercial beers. We are very heavily taxed and the tax is based on % of alcohol content of the beer. 3 pints of barley wine costs over £7 approx $11 I have just made 40 pints for a total cost of £18 and even though it was a kit it tastes...

Don't forget that British Gallons are larger than American gallons also when using a recipe from this site. One British Gallon is 1.2 American so use approx 4.2 gallons of water to an American 5 gallon recipe. :mug: Looks like somebody beat me to it. :)

It looks like it is leaking on the original weld because of the the crease. It would take seconds for a pro welder to fill that hole for you.

Hi With that much head-space in the carboy it will take one heck of a lot of fermentation to start pushing the airlock. The airlock works by pressure build up behind it, air is far more compressible than wort the airlock wont do much after the initial few days I wouldn't have thought. The only...