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Has anyone ever tried re-using those little Stella Artois kegs you get in the Off Licence? I've been wondering if it can be done. For anyone that hasn't seen them, they're small enough to fit in your fridge and I think give about 5 litres or so of Stella. They look pretty cool but the only...

Hi, I just looked at mr beer and beermachine.com. I suppose the atractive thing is it's all packaged and gimmicky and sounds ad feels easy. Thing is you can buy a 5 gallon fermenter and pressure barrel and 40 pint kit for about the same price! As someone who is only a kit brewer at this...

So should I steep it or boil it or something? or can I just smash it up and throw it in the barrel and shake?! : ) Also, can you make a beer using only that? Or is it better to use a kit and add some Crystl malt as an addition? What Im wondering is can I buy this stuff which sounds...

What is this crystal malt stuff? Is it like malt extract? BTW I tasted it yesterday and the flavour is starting to mellow out a bit. Thanks

I'm concocting a strong beer at moment, it goes like htis: Coopers Dark Ale Kit (or something like that -I threw awaya the can) 500g Extra dark spray malt 1Kd brewing sugar priming sugar. i barreled it a few days ago. I't not nearly as dark as I would have thought, actually a nice...

Problem solved with a bit of advice from the guy in "Village home brew". The tube that fits in the bottom of the float sometimes gets pushed too far up when they assemble it at the factory, the result being that it is not under water properly and therefore allows gas to escape as wellas/instead...

I know this probably sounds dumb and yes I am fairly new to brewing but what the hell. You've probably heard of Heather Ale, so in my quest for wild Scottish beer, i have wondered what an infusion or extract of peat would do to a beer ( aside from the flavour - which would certainly be...

I have heard from a guy I met who was a professional Bog Myrtle gatherer for a perfume maker, that this plant was used by the vikings when they made beer, much in the same way we use hops. Furthermore, that the plant imparted a slight chemical buzz in addition to the alcoholic one. Does...

Anyone know a recipe that comes close? For those that don't know it this beer is brewed to a close approximation of one from Jacobean times, in the Borders of Scotland. It's about 8.4 ABV, and very dard and treakley (molasses like) although it's not like guiness, more like 80 that's had half...

I once had jalepno lager from Peckhams in Morningside, Edinburgh. it was in a big glassbottle of mexican lager (like sol or similars) andreen had a green jalepno in it, so the flavour leached out in the bottle rather than being brewed. it was about 5% ABV and was pretty firey and hot, man I...

Hi, I have an annoying problem with my beersphere. I put in 40 pints of beer and it pressured up with secondary fermentation and worked fine. That is, until the presure ran out and I had to add some CO2. Now, i don't get a steady flow, I get a lot of gas and a fluctuatig flow, that never...