Cold weather

[pmd2579]

I am currently brewing the milestone christmas brew donner and blitzed, i have it in the garage and when i tried it the other night it tasted very watery and the barrel seems to be losing pressure quickly. Could the current cold temperatures be causing this problem as all my other brews have been fine????

[Ditch]

S30 cylinders are preferable to sparklets as there is a slighty greater level of control (a widget world gas system would be better still).

So, just 'How Good' are these WW things, Chris? I mean, I use basic kegs and don't like my stout 'too' carbonated. But then, equally, I'm quite possibly stuck in my own, comfortable little groove and liable to so continue for all time.

At, as I remember it, what? £50 a throw, all told? Do ye think someone like me could find benefits in a Widget World? Or could it be I'd just as well to bimble along and not bother about not knowing any better?

I view this whole issue rather like the Nitrogen / CO2 cannisters, said to give a more 'Stout' like head. Heads on my pints are fine.

I s'pose what I'm saying is; I don't consider anything broken. Should I be trying to fix it?

[Ditch]

Cheers for that, Chris. Pressure Guage? Worth it just for that, surely?!

Seriously though, I'll bear all this in mind and shall watch how I proceed. Even just a week or two back, I'd have said I'd never have beer in a keg long enough to bother. But I've just managed to retrain my sleeping habits and ~ would ye believe ~ my consumption rate has plunged! I'm simply not up all night, keeping myself company with a pint glass. And, obviously, I don't drink through the day. So now it's a few hours of darkness and a few pints to go with it.

Do like the sound of a Pressure Guage though!