Recent content by Brucebanner

Awesome, I didn't think about the fact the sugar was just releasing trapped co2. Thanks so much for the halp and advice, hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll have some decent beer to drink

Hey so I transferred the beer to the pressurised keg. However I added the sugar to the beer whilst it was in the fermenter before transferring it to the keg. When I did this a thick head formed on the beer, however I had to leave the fermenter open for about ten minutes whilst transferring the...

OK so I took another reading and my hydrometer says it's ready to bottle. I have a pressurised plastic keg that I'm going to transfer the liquid to. Is it still OK to add the extra sugar for carbonation even though its been three weeks? I don't want to add sugar and then nothing happens and in...

So it says add 85g per pressure barrel for conditioning and then leaving it about two weeks. I don't have any bottles as the instructions say I can leave it in the barrel. I don't have a gas bottle though so I feel I should add the sugar?

OK so I just wanna say this is my first time brewing beer. I have a 23litre bucket and bought the yeast+malt extract from wilko. I followed the instructions and mixed everything together 2.5weeks ago. However after I had done so I then discovered the airlock on my bucket was not securely...