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well I took the gas in apart on one keg and greased and cleaned it, I couldn't get a gasket for the top of the poppet valve, so greasing it had to do, It has all but sealed it, so thats good.................there might be a tiny bit of a leak but it's hard to see it with soap and water.

thanks for the info guys, will pull them out and replace any seals today..................yeh $21 was my steal of the year, heheh, even with a recon I couldn't go too wrong with that buy. got to keg this beer today-tomorrow for the homebrew meet on thursday, i got told 2 days gasing at 30psi...

hey ya guys..................thanks for the replies, yeh these kegs have the stainless handles, no rubber around the top, but they are NZ corny's, might be the same as the old aussy ones, I don't know. I'll pull the bloody things apart tomorrow and have a look at them, I got these kegs for $21...

Hi there I have just bought 2 old 20ltr corny's, I noticed when I done a leak test that the gas in posts of both kegs leak co2 out the top when I have the ball lock off..............is this common and would the gas line stop this leaking if it remained connected and with preasure. Or do I have...

yeh I have some to do this week, just like silo ted said, it's all trial and error, I tried making chocolate a while back but couldn't get the colour that the bought grain had, had the taste. your lighter grains are easier to get.............well with my old oven anyway, I done a good vienna in...

why no just buy from NZhops, they would sell you hops I'd say, they'd export all over the world.

4.17kg pilsner grain, .58kg flaked barley, .58 roast barley, .25 chocolate.......... 28g super alpha at 90min, 13g of willamette at 45min, boil size 35 ltres (boil in bag), I add a tsp of calcium carbonate towards the end because of all that roast..........turns out well........lacks sourness...

yes this a AG brew.................biab.............I think it's the corn syrup, hopefully it won't be too sweet. heres the recipe I used...........it was around a 25 litre batch 3.00 kg Marris otter (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) Grain 50.4 % 1.80 kg Pilsner (2 Row) UK (1.0 SRM) Grain 30.3 % 0.25...

Hey guys, I used about 450g of corn syrup in a brown ale the other week, just checked the FG and it's at 1.020..........I take it the corn syrup is doing this, as I know it's fermented. Now I've had this high FG gravity before in a higher temp boil that I done in a AG beer, so is the corn syrup...

hey all, just wondered, when you make an irish cream, usually they say it will keep for 3 months, if you use real cream instead of the powdered stuff will it keep the same amount of time? It's all kept in the fridge.

they say grained that is not cracked stores well in the right environment, I have also used cracked grain after 16 weeks and never noticed a difference................so as long as the grain is stored in a dry place i wouldn't worry about it.

hey ya sumo, good to hear you tried it out, your recipe looks pretty much what i thought I'd try, thanks for the tip on the dry hopping & ingreients, I'll definately try it out..........damn, I didn't try this beer till a few days ago and it's good to see Mac's with a great beer...........I'll...

heheh yeh it's a good drop alright................I have been making it wrong, I have been starting of with higher hop additions at the start of the boil and then less towards the end, giving me a bitter beer, by around 9-10 IBU pionts, still a great beer, I reckon I'll follow the recipe this...

Just bought some of Mac's hop rocker pilsner, thought this was a great drop anyone had a go at brewing it? Say's on the bottle that it has a portion of crystal with the standard lager malt, giving itself some room for serious hop addition's, NZ sauvin up front and in combination with NZ...

I've used 5% brown malt in a brew.................made a good beer, but I'm with Kaiser Soze on his taste description, it wasn't a chocolate taste..........more the toast/biscuit tatse.