Greetings,
Just found this section of the forums. I'm an American home brewer living between Cambridge and Peterborough. Both my co-worker and I have been brewing since end-2012. Both mostly AG. I just got my kegs up and running.
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Cool, unfortunately we work a shift schedule and will be working all weekend. He (Mike) brewed a coconut porter yesterday. I (also Mike) planned to do a fresh hop harvest ale with my cascades yesterday, but with finding a place to fill my propane tanks and bottling a pumpkin ale there was no time. I had important things to do last night like drinking beer (Brandy-Barrel Hunahpu!).
Do you all belong to any home brew club? I've been looking for one, but it appears any craft beer type club is in London.
It's no big deal. I didn't end up brewing today anyhow. I was debating on whether or not I should... I have a pumpkin ale in my only primary right now. It's ready to bottle or keg, but I'm basically out of bottles, and can't keg yet because I'm still waiting for the CO2 coupler nut to get here. I don't regularly use a secondary, but I have one if I need to free up the primary. The short version: I got lazy. I might do it next weekend.
I have plenty of bottles. How much? My wife made me throw bottles away yesterday. But I have like twenty empties.
I have hundreds of bottles also if you need some, but I'm a bit far from you. I may be taking a Taco Bell trip this week out that ways and could always bring some.
cpl, I like the idea of starting a brew club. I've attempted here, but although we have quite a few home brewers around, it just never happened. There really are people who look at this hobby as just a way to save money. Crazy!
Oh man, I wish I would've known you needed items before I left. They've got some grains and things there at BB and I could've picked the up for you. He charged me £45 (£10 deposit) for the full tank. The tank is nice and big, maybe double or triple the size of my US CO2 tank... I have a feeling it'll last a while...
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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.
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.
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.
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.cpl-america said:You can use the gas at bb. But as fat as I know, no One will fill your personal tank.
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.
pintslayer said: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.
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.
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.
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.
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