Just joined, from UK

[dynamic]

Hi guys,

I've just joined the forum. I've not had a chance to look about yet but would you say that this forum was relevant to someone from the UK?

 

[BrewingGunner]

Welcome! And yes, I believe this forum is relevant to everyone.

 

[dynamic]

Thanks.

I'm looking forward to getting back into homebrewing. I did it about 10-12 years ago, had some amazing results, actually it was some of the best beer I had ever tasted.
My experience has been with using kits (I think that's what you would call it).

The forum looks very active and this iPhone app is great.

 

[kh54s10]

This forum has members world wide. It is a great resource for homebrewers where ever they live. Beer is beer even in the UK.

You biggest problem will probably be that most are in the US so you will have to convert most everything to metric.

 

[unionrdr]

Not to mention,what's available to us vs what you can get over there. And pressure barrels aren't really used over here either. Kegging & bottling are the most widely used methods over here. But other than those,it's all the same really. This is the best site around for brewing,wine,mead,cooking & pairing with beer,sausage & cheese making,bbq/smoking...we have it all.
I and many others are even starting to dry spent brewing grains for grinding into flour for baking all sorts of goodies. So whatever you want to brew or make from/to go with beers & such,you'll find it here!

 

[woozy]

You have to convert things to metric. And we might talk about buying things from american web sites. And... well that's about it.

And we aren't *all* in the US. I'm not even sure the US has a sizable majority here.

Kits.... to be honest I'm not 100% sure what people mean by "kits". *I* mean ingredients (not equipment) packaged and sold together in a "kit" bundle to make a single batch of beer of a specific recipe. By my definition the term "kit" is really not that important as it doesn't matter if you follow a recipe and collect your ingredients individually or buy them grouped together. I think some folk use "kit" to mean pre-hopped extract "just add water and serve". And then, of course, "starter kit" or "equipment kit" refers to one's equipment rather than the ingredients for a batch.

 

[ProfessorWoland]

This forum has members world wide. It is a great resource for homebrewers where ever they live. Beer is beer even in the UK.

You biggest problem will probably be that most are in the US so you will have to convert most everything to metric.

The big problem too is our Imperial measurements are different from US measurements of the same name too!

 

[PeteNMA]

Welcome from an expat! You'll definitely find this place useful for techniques and recipes, you're already aware of the smaller US gallon so that's your major hurdle.

Do be careful though, some of the hardware you'll see can cause extremely rapid wallet draining!

 

[dynamic]

Thanks guys.

By kit I mean ingredient in extract form, add water and go.
I'm going to start off with some more kits to get me going and then move on to some of the more advanced.

I had everything that I needed from when I did it before but not any more so it's a sore one for the wallet in the first run.

It's actually not that bad for the equipment after pricing the essentials that I need for first run.

Fermenting bucket, beer kit (a nut brown to start with), steriliser, heating belt, syphon, pressure barrel (spherical king keg) CO2 canister.

Roughly £100 for all that I need.

Going forward I will do some bottled batches then move on to either getting a fridge or some way of cooling pressure barrel, I'll then move to making recipe based batches.

 

[jonnyp1980]

Welcome you should get all the help you need on here. I know it has helped me.