Any brewers In the Suffolk area of England?

[cpl-america]

Hey guys, sorry been super busy and not around to brew, but i just ordered all the stuff i need to build a new kegerator and I got a CO2 cannister shipping in from the states from Midwest brewers...I need to find where to get it filled...any ideas? Oh and I may have time one weekend before december to brew but i'm deploying again.

sorry bro, they don't fill in this country because of regulations. more the company's rules than a law i believe. but you can rent one from beautiful beers as boomer found. i ended up bumming one off a friend who works for a brewery. boc used to do it, but because of insurance decided not to anymore. so unless you want to go with small 1lb tanks, beautiful beers is the only locally accessible co2.

if you wan't help with your kegerator, i'd love to. i think i even have some spare parts.

 

[boomer135]

just emptied a keg myself, so monday is brewday if you are interested.

most of the keg might be gone before ramstein. lol. and if it isn't i'm sure it will taste all the better when you get back.

as for monday, i'm finally getting with the program and making a pumpkin ale.

have fun in ramstein... last time i was in germany, it was the hospital. don't fall too much for their beer, only to come home to fruity english ales.

Actually, I'll be driving there, so there should be plenty of room in the car for beer if anyone wants me to bring back the German Flip tops. I have been in there a few times the last few weeks so, each time I try to bring back 2 cases of them. I'm up to 6 cases of them now, 2 of which I want to return cause they're nasty inside and I can't get them to come clean in the oxyclean bath. I plan on staying at 6 cases of thos bottles though.

Hey guys, sorry been super busy and not around to brew, but i just ordered all the stuff i need to build a new kegerator and I got a CO2 cannister shipping in from the states from Midwest brewers...I need to find where to get it filled...any ideas? Oh and I may have time one weekend before december to brew but i'm deploying again.

I think the best current option is to mod your US regulator to fit a UK CO2 bottle. Weldability Sif.co.uk has the nut you'd need for 5 pounds. plus another 5 for shipping, so in total about $15. I got my bottle from Renee over at beautiful beers in Bury. That was 45 pounds.

I just got my kegs filled last night, and set the pressure. this morning I checked them and heard a hissing which wasn't there last night. I had to tighten one of the connections. luckily I don't think I lost very much CO2.

 

[Rendomike]

Hey all. Life has been incredibly busy. Going through a lot of changes at work and the government shut down made it fifty times as painful. Been staying off here to avoid getting new ideas to spend money on.

As for kegging here:

I get my CO2 from http://www.angliagascentre.co.uk/. Costs about £16 a fill and there is a £2 per month rental I have to pay for the canister. Not cheap, but also not horrible.

I got my regulator nut off ebay here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151109337646?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
The stem was unusable, as it didn't fit the regulator. I just had to put an extra o-ring, which came with the original nut, in the new one.

 

[Rendomike]

This talk of leaks just had me checking all my connections with starsan. You can see how huge my tank is, should last over a year even with excessive purging; however, I recently had to replace it after about two months because there was two very slow leaks on the regulator. Tore it apart and put it back together replacing all the plumbers tape.

 

[jimhenning]

sorry bro, they don't fill in this country because of regulations. more the company's rules than a law i believe. but you can rent one from beautiful beers as boomer found. i ended up bumming one off a friend who works for a brewery. boc used to do it, but because of insurance decided not to anymore. so unless you want to go with small 1lb tanks, beautiful beers is the only locally accessible co2.

if you wan't help with your kegerator, i'd love to. i think i even have some spare parts.

Wait, so i can't get a CO2 tank filled? I read you just need an adapter and they will? Wahts the deal...Appreciate the offer to help, I plan on painting the fridge first with a Batman sign, then doing the operation...shouldn't take too long but yea might be worth an afternoon to brew and build the kegerator

 

[jimhenning]

and i have a summer cottage (shed) out back that may serve as a "tasting room" as well a large 2 car garage we can brew in for the club...again i don't want to promise too much as I deploy about 200-250 days a year.

 

[cpl-america]

You can use the gas at bb. But as fat as I know, no One will fill your personal tank.

 

[boomer135]

You can use the gas at bb. But as fat as I know, no One will fill your personal tank.

I concur. I searched high and low for some type of business that would fill my US tank, with no results. I recommend buying the DACO2NUT from a UK company called Weldability Sif, (google company name, or find the nut on UK amazon) for about $15 including shipping. Here's the amazon link. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E9Y8LXQ/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 They have them in stock now, I know because mine just came in the mail last week. And shipping was about 2 days straight to my house near Mildenhall. (After about 1.5 months waiting for the part to come back into stock) So, you can replace the us nut with this one, and buy the UK CO2 tank from beautiful beers in bury. You'll just have to make sure that the tank will fit inside your kegerator if that where you want to put it. Mine was kind of large, pics compared to the 5# US tank are above. This whole thing for me was obviously not ideal, but the only way I could figure out to get my kegerator set up.

 

[pintslayer]

Hello to all. Just joined the Suffolk Brewing club. Just wanted to add a few comments in regards to your thread here. I purchased a CO2 cylinder from someone off of bookoo as I sold my US tanks before I came here. I acquired an old UK regulator from a british local and used the coupling nut on my US regulator to mate it to the tank. That is the best way in my opinion. The problem is getting a tank and re-filling it from what I can tell. I have ordered grains from the-home-brew-shop.co.uk. I was able to get everything I needed form the. I do want to ask if anyone has ordered any grains or hops from the US, like from Northern Brewer or Midwest and had any problems getting it into the UK. I see that boomer135 has kits from Midwest, so I am assuming they included hops, grains, yeast? Anyway glad to finally contact some fellow homebrewers in this area.

 

[pintslayer]

I've been doing some reading on high attenuation and low FG, I think I may have over pitched. See, I've had this US 05 in the fridge for quite some time and I was worried about its health. So I did my first yeast starter and just eyeballed the amounts of DME and water. I eyeballed them so well I'm not sure how much I used. I think it was a cup of light DME with a few cups of water.

I think the beer did taste a little dry, but I think it'll be drinkable.

I may not be able to come by this weekend, but don't wait up for me, they'll be other chances for me to watch. But let me know when you brew and Ill see if I can leave for a few hours.

Dry yeast has a longer shelf life as opposed to liquid yeast. 24 months vs 6, somwhere around there. Without knowing the your exact pitching rates(billions of cells) and from the sound of your starter, a packet of saf05 wouldnt necessarily propogate that much. if you pitched a packet that could ferment a 5gal batch into a low gravity starter you maybe only doubled that packet in viable yeast. for best propagation in a starter you want to be around a 1.040 OG. this allows the yeast to get right to work, and not have to work hard. healthy, happy, easy going yeast=better propagation. even if your starter was a higher gravity you maybe tripled the cell count. in that case your pitching rate would be closer to optimal for a 5gal batch. anyway i have a few resources on yeast i can share. first check out yeastcalc.com, which is a site my buddy built. this can help you figure out where you need to be in cell counts for your batch. i also have a really good article on yeast propagation that i can share if you give me an email. regardless, making starters has many benefits. i am aobut to start one right now myself for a brew this weekend. "Yeast autolysis or self-lysis is the breaking open or rupturing of the yeast cell and the transfer (leaking out) of undesirable substances and off-flavours to the beer. The flavour is described as yeast-bite, broth-like, meaty, sulphury and dirty diaper." this is a good description of what an overpitched beer would be like. sounds like you mashed low and just used a very high attenuating yeast. nothing to worry about, definitely not overpitched. hopefully this wasnt post too much.

 

[boomer135]

I do want to ask if anyone has ordered any grains or hops from the US, like from Northern Brewer or Midwest and had any problems getting it into the UK. I see that boomer135 has kits from Midwest, so I am assuming they included hops, grains, yeast? Anyway glad to finally contact some fellow homebrewers in this area.

I haven't had a single issue with it. The customs form is always labeled "hobby supplies" or some such. So I doubt it flags at customs.

 

[pintslayer]

I haven't had a single issue with it. The customs form is always labeled "hobby supplies" or some such. So I doubt it flags at customs.

That's great to know. I can handle getting grains over here, but hips are expensive as hell at 100g per pop. I'm going to try and order a couple of pounds from the states. Way cheaper in bulk. Thanks a lot, was worried about that.

 

[cpl-america]

Hello to all. Just joined the Suffolk Brewing club. Just wanted to add a few comments in regards to your thread here. I purchased a CO2 cylinder from someone off of bookoo as I sold my US tanks before I came here. I acquired an old UK regulator from a british local and used the coupling nut on my US regulator to mate it to the tank. That is the best way in my opinion. The problem is getting a tank and re-filling it from what I can tell. I have ordered grains from the-home-brew-shop.co.uk. I was able to get everything I needed form the. I do want to ask if anyone has ordered any grains or hops from the US, like from Northern Brewer or Midwest and had any problems getting it into the UK. I see that boomer135 has kits from Midwest, so I am assuming they included hops, grains, yeast? Anyway glad to finally contact some fellow homebrewers in this area.

yeah, i order from the states sometimes. but i usually get it locally, as i'm impatient. drive to beautiful beers, or order from http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/ as i reciever orders from them in a couple of days. but there is definitely a price difference.

 

[pintslayer]

yeah, i order from the states sometimes. but i usually get it locally, as i'm impatient. drive to beautiful beers, or order from http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/ as i reciever orders from them in a couple of days. but there is definitely a price difference.

I hear you. I use cascades a lot and I do have some now so not worried about lag time, just want to build a stash. Was just at BB today. He's pretty good for grains and CO2. Hops really pricey and I just bought his last pack of Wyeast he'll be getting for a while he said. Cheap sacks of Maris Otter though.

Brewing tomorrow if anyone would like to stop by for a couple. Let me know.

 

[cpl-america]

I would stop by if I didn't work.

 

[pintslayer]

I would stop by if I didn't work.

Added from my phone with the HBT app. Couldn't post without the quote. Anyway, working nights so this is the first thing I did when I woke up today. All is well.

 

[jimhenning]

I got the nut and the CO2 tank from BB, the regulator is from America so the link you gave me helped and it fits i just tested it, however, I have to get the old one off the American regulator. I don't want to damage the regulator...best way to get this thing off without screwing something up? Photos attached for reference.

Hey all. Life has been incredibly busy. Going through a lot of changes at work and the government shut down made it fifty times as painful. Been staying off here to avoid getting new ideas to spend money on.

As for kegging here:

I get my CO2 from http://www.angliagascentre.co.uk/. Costs about £16 a fill and there is a £2 per month rental I have to pay for the canister. Not cheap, but also not horrible.

I got my regulator nut off ebay here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151109337646?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
The stem was unusable, as it didn't fit the regulator. I just had to put an extra o-ring, which came with the original nut, in the new one.

 

[jimhenning]

Posted 2 of the same pic, here is a better look

Hey all. Life has been incredibly busy. Going through a lot of changes at work and the government shut down made it fifty times as painful. Been staying off here to avoid getting new ideas to spend money on.

As for kegging here:

I get my CO2 from http://www.angliagascentre.co.uk/. Costs about £16 a fill and there is a £2 per month rental I have to pay for the canister. Not cheap, but also not horrible.

I got my regulator nut off ebay here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151109337646?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
The stem was unusable, as it didn't fit the regulator. I just had to put an extra o-ring, which came with the original nut, in the new one.

 

[cpl-america]

The whole arm to the right of the regulator should be able to unscrew, and you can slip off the threaded part.

 

[jimhenning]

Disregard...I figured it out, and finished the kegerator to boot...behold the Bat/Beer Kegerator!

 

[cpl-america]

Looks great, how big is your garage?

 

[jimhenning]

Looks great, how big is your garage?

I got lucky and got quite a large garage...2 car plus its pretty deep. I use it as a woodworking shop and where i store my beer stuff...I actually moved the kegerator to another building on the property, we have a 12x14 "summer cottage I turned into a bar/poker room. The garage can be an awesome place to brew if we can plan a day/ I can get pretty much all of us in there brewing and I got a space heater if it gets cold. Does everyone have a propane burner?

 

[cpl-america]

I brew electric. But I am all for a brew day. I work every weekend though.

 

[pintslayer]

I got lucky and got quite a large garage...2 car plus its pretty deep. I use it as a woodworking shop and where i store my beer stuff...I actually moved the kegerator to another building on the property, we have a 12x14 "summer cottage I turned into a bar/poker room. The garage can be an awesome place to brew if we can plan a day/ I can get pretty much all of us in there brewing and I got a space heater if it gets cold. Does everyone have a propane burner?

I have a propane burner and used to brew all winter in the garage. Would great to have a mass brew day. I have a 25 gal kettle to do triple batches as well. So even a few of us can split a big batch. Could even pitch different yeasts and compare later.

 

[pintslayer]

Does anyone have some spare bottlrs they could part with? I need about six so I can bottle up a couple from the keg for later. Much appreciated.

 

[cpl-america]

Np. Where you located at?

 

[pintslayer]

Np. Where you located at?

Red Lodge

 

[pintslayer]

Thanks! Red Lodge

You?

 

[cpl-america]

in eriswell outside of lakenheath. got a whole crate, you can have as many as you want.

 

[pintslayer]

in eriswell outside of lakenheath. got a whole crate, you can have as many as you want.

Right on thanks. I can swing by next weekend sometime of that will work. Ill shoot you a message for location.