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by Garth
Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:24 am
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Balanced English Stout Recipe?
Replies: 8
Views: 1793

Re: Balanced English Stout Recipe?

Four shades is well recommended to any stout lover, it's great :D do a search for the recipe
by Garth
Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:37 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Priming bottles with glucose/sugar solution
Replies: 23
Views: 4980

Re: Priming bottles with glucose/sugar solution

It's basically what Scotty has said. If you want to bottle carbonated beer from a cornie, you need everything that touches the beer really really cold. This includes the tube the beer is flowing along from the cornie. I don't think you could instantly force carb it then bottle it anyway, it would ta...
by Garth
Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:12 am
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Priming bottles with glucose/sugar solution
Replies: 23
Views: 4980

Re: Priming bottles with glucose/sugar solution

I did away the bottling bucket and 'little bottler' years ago. I bottle straight from the cornie with gas and purge the bottles with CO2 as well, so I cannot add sugar/glucose to anywhere apart from the bottle, so syringing seemed the way to go. I use one of these, well easy and quick.... http://i13...
by Garth
Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:14 am
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: beer engine
Replies: 5
Views: 1647

Re: beer engine

It's pretty simple really. Just insert the beer line from the beer engine into the out ball lock, make sure u vent and purge all the co2 pressure before, and start pumping as normal and leave the vent open. Make sure the keg is below the beer engine height or else the beer will keep flow due to sip...
by Garth
Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:27 pm
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: beer engine
Replies: 5
Views: 1647

Re: beer engine

yes, you can but you'll need some jiggery pokery going on. The ways I have heard it done are with a cask breather adding the smallest amount of CO2 as the beer it taken out, or very very low pressure added from the gas regulator. I did hear about someone turning the full cornie upside down and takin...
by Garth
Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:24 pm
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: ID this reg please
Replies: 2
Views: 1345

Re: ID this reg please

not sure about the mixed gas, but if you read it properly it syas 'Oxygen' on it.

You are correct, for a standard pub CO2 cylinder you will need the reverse of that, a female connector.
by Garth
Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:46 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Priming bottles with glucose/sugar solution
Replies: 23
Views: 4980

Re: Priming bottles with glucose/sugar solution

Because that either means uneven priming or stirring of the FV, thereby probably disturbing sediment. I'm a syringe primer, but i don't bother with any calculations or drawing off beer. You will be using about 150ml of liquid in 23000ml of beer - just use water, you are never going to tell the diff...
by Garth
Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:29 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Priming bottles with glucose/sugar solution
Replies: 23
Views: 4980

Priming bottles with glucose/sugar solution

I'm probably being really lazy here, but can any tell me what sort of quantities do I need if I want to draw off some beer, stick it in a pan and gently heat it and add glucose. Then I can simply squirt using a syringe a certain amount of sugary beer solution into each bottle to prime and not get th...
by Garth
Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:13 pm
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Bend to fit heating element
Replies: 6
Views: 1933

Re: Bend to fit heating element

most kettle elements are incalloy, so like kev says, there should be no problem there.
by Garth
Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:42 am
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Where can i buy budget kettle?
Replies: 7
Views: 1580

Re: Where can i buy budget kettle?

Is buying a whole cheapo kettle cheaper than just buying the element from a spares shop or ebay? err, generally yes. £4.99 for whole kettle, versus £15+ for an element plus an extra few £ for a lead. if you check out how many folk have actually done this and made a decent boiler for next to nowt...
by Garth
Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:01 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Nelson Sauvin
Replies: 1
Views: 685

Re: Nelson Sauvin

for a 23 litre batch to 1060 I'd use something like this, I've just used this today

Pale 5.4kg
Crystal 120g
Wheat 330g

then somewhere between 40 and 60 IBU, maybe a bit more, and then loads at flameout.
by Garth
Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:48 am
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Quick Survey - How many Cornies have you got?
Replies: 95
Views: 10558

Re: Quick Survey - How many Cornies have you got?

Found a decent CO2 supplier in Sheffield...£36.74 Deposit & £14.40 for the Gas, ( 6.35KG Pub Tank ) which I thought was reasonable That's cheaper than I've heard some folk being quoted. I know that CO2 cylinders last us homebrewing lot quite a long time, (unless you have a leak), but you could si...
by Garth
Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:57 am
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Making a Hopstopper
Replies: 89
Views: 24544

Re: Making a Hopstopper

yeah, really neat and tidy edge crimping, good job.
by Garth
Sun May 22, 2011 1:10 pm
Forum: Kit Brewing
Topic: new brewer in the house
Replies: 14
Views: 2719

Re: new brewer in the house

welcome to the forum punkass, your questions will always be answered on here. A while since I did kits but yes BKE is the way to go, it's a mix of dried spraymalt and dextrose I think, still sugar but in a different form, and yes, just replace it kg for kg, must better than household white sugar whi...
by Garth
Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:32 am
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Counter current heat exchanger. How long should it be?
Replies: 3
Views: 955

Re: Counter current heat exchanger. How long should it be?

alright Tommy,

mine was about 10m long then coiled round a demijohn sort of diameter.

works very well, takes maybe 45 mins to an hour to pass 60 litres through it.