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Cheers, Grmblz. Appreciate it - will definitely be getting a check valve when I replace the lines this time! Will need to re-evaluate my process of connecting the keg too to make sure it doesn't happen again - I basically did exactly the same as a mate and his worked fine yet mine shot up the...

Well I'm getting closer to having the first drink of my home brew, today I got my other keg filled with a brew at U-Brew-It (i.e. brew on premises and leave for 3 weeks until you return to bottle/can/keg the brew). I went halves in a 50L brew with a mate and we both got our corny's filled and...

Well, kegged (and bottled the rest) the brew yesterday. Gravity reading had stayed around the 1.009-010 mark as it had for the last week and a half. I mixed approx 75g of dextrose with a cup of hot water to naturally carbonate the keg prior to filling. Also gave the keg a squirt of Co2 prior...

Am definitely recording everything I can at the moment and will continue to do so!!

Update - I took another gravity reading today and it appears it has stabilised around 1010. Had a small taste of it and it smelled and tasted like beer (not the best beer but definitely beer). In any event, I'll give it a bit longer before I keg/bottle it to see how it goes.

Legend Grmblz - greatly appreciated! Can't wait to get into hops and playing around with mini mashes!

Thanks Grmblz. Would you say 2 weeks fermenter and then another 2 weeks in keg? I am leaning towards naturally carbonating the keg rather than force carbonating.

Well we are into day 4 now - I got the temperature down from the initial 24 degrees to around 20 degrees after about 24 hours or so and it appears to have remained reasonably constant since. The airlock has stopped bubbling like it was. I took an SG reading this morning which came out at 1.009...

Thanks, Maggie. Have got it in a cooler spot trying to get the temp down a bit now. The air lock is bubbling so it appears it is fermenting 🤞🤞🤞

Well I got my first brew on tonight. Bought a starter kit from my LHBS which came with a Cooper's Lager tin (Not necessarily my cup of tea but for a first brew I couldn't care less!). Ended up pitching the yeast at approx 24 degrees (which I think was a little high ideally?) with an OG of 1.38...

Hi guys, just come across the forum and it looks like what I need! I recently got a kegerator and am looking at getting into doing my own brews at home going forward. Long term, I want to get into it a bit more (i.e. not using kits and do my own thing etc.), but for the start, I was thinking...