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I've received a cider kit for a birthday present after putting my buckets in the loft a few years ago. I've just put the brewing sugar and contents of the tin in the brewing bucket and plan on transferring either to a pressure barrel or to a second bucket. The reason I don't always transfer to...

I had a moment of clarity, and realised that several months ago when sealing my pressure barrel I forgot to add any priming sugar. That being said, there was a very small amount of gas from some slow activity. The beer which is ginger flavoured brown ale \ bitter is nice but flat. I...

Hi all, I bought the following items off a wine brewer in the hopes there was some steriliser in the bucket, but the steriliser was empty. I do, however, have all this wine brewing kit and it is all just about to go out of date, so I am curious... has anyone used any component of this stuff...

Hi - have not been on the site for many months. I am still going with the tinned kits which are widely available in the UK. My latest brew is the tried and tested "Definitive Bitter" by YOUNGS. To this I have added 500 grams of brown suger, 250 grams of white sugar and 650 grams of refined black...

How much sugar per 2 litre plastic bttles for carbonation? Sorry about this but I've got everything sterilised, my siphon rigged and water everywhere.v:drunk:

I have a semi - translucent white plastic secondary which will allow some sunlight into it. As I don't want to move and unsettle it, what is the effect of normal sunlight through this kind of plastic, which I guess must be quite common in the brewing hobby?

I've made a change to this batch. Instead of using a pressure barrel as secondary- which also carbonates and you can drink straight out of the barrel, I have decanted into a non-pressurised secondary with an air lock with the intention of bottling later. So I have not used priming sugar in...

What are my options with the equipment I already have? I would rate myself as still a noob, however I am working on getting a consistent brew of dark ale using ready made tins of ingredients. Yesterday someone gave me a lager kit (beer as opposed to dark ale) and I set it off going in the...

Hi I have just got confirmation that an S30 valve will fit my old Boots pressure barrel. My next question is... how do I connect an S30 valve to a standard soda steam bottle? Some kind of adaptor or pipe? Secondly is it possible to add some kind of pressure gauge into the set up? Any...

Hi I'm using a pressure barrel for secondary which you can tap straight into your glass, but the problem I'm finding is the tap is a couple of inches from the bottom of the barrel, so you have to start tipping the barrel up to get the last 3 litres. I decided to bottle the last bit into...

My first batch has been a great success if not a somewhat slow procees taking months and not weeks. Thinking on how I can improve things, I thought that the next natural progression would be to use a yeast starter and not pitch the dried yeast as is. However, I have just read the following on...

Hi - I've read a lot on here about temperature problems and I realise many parts of the USA are a lot hotter in Summer than Summers are in England. Also - I believe the lighter coloured beers and lagers need a much cooler brewing temperature to dark English Ales. I am wondering if anyone can...

MOD EDIT: Post split from hijacked thread I have a heating question which is somewhat different. I am thinking of getting a heating base mat to sit under the stage one fermenter bucket (pail) in order to raise the temperature up to around 20 degrees C as it gets cold at this time of year in...

Hi - I've used a kit with a 5 gallon starting bucket and a secondary fermentation 5 gallon pressure barrel. It seem to take off slowly at first and what was going to be a week in the first bucket , I ended leaving for 2 weeks. Transferred to the pressure barrel with some priming sugar ...