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Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 6:24 pm
by H12rpo
Having a mooch in the local Wilko yesterday and snagged an on offer 40 pint kit of IPA for just a fiver! As it happens I picked up two of the pressure plastic kegs from a local gumtree job lot and no I have s use for one :)
Just warm it up pour into fermenter, add some Aldis finest granulated, stir, float in the supplied yeast and wait. It's currently working away next to my birdwatcher and kale washes
Yeeee harrrrr!

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 5:59 am
by packapoo
I could be on the wrong track entirely H12 (often am) but depending on hopping level of that IPA, could be heading for a contamination issue of your still that can be a problem to get rid of ???

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:38 am
by H12rpo
I have no intention of putting it through the still??? The can contained the very thick malty hoppy liquid but no solids. It's fermenting away happily in a fermenting bucket. When it's done, it's to be racked into a plastic keg with a small amount of sugar and sealed that's all there is to it (at least that's what the instructions say ).
I'm not sure how it could contaminate my still

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:26 pm
by packapoo
I started off by saying.... I was :-[

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:07 pm
by Mash
Not necessarily... I thought that too, but didn't have time to reply

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 9:55 pm
by Easydrinker
I just saw someone making beer.
Interesting how people see things :)

Robert

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 4:16 am
by packapoo
Or don't.

Depends on your POV really.... O0

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 7:13 pm
by H12rpo
Just racked it ....popped a bit of conditioning sugar into the pressure keg. Sealed up and wait a couple of weeks for it to clear and get fizzy.
I tasted it whilst racking and its not great........hopefully it'll get better if not it'll be down the drain

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 3:11 am
by Easydrinker
I have just bottled, into anything I could find, a mates dodgy out of date,, from a concentrate can, beer.
It was not a pleasant drink.
The slugs in my poly tunnel will cheerfully go drown in it.
I don't consider that a waste ;D

Robert.

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 3:39 am
by packapoo
There is another way of not wasting it too, Robert.

Just saying.....

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 8:06 am
by H12rpo
This can wasn't out of date.
What's the other way not to wast it then?

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:35 pm
by packapoo
Return to this thread start and read again ::)

I put a caveat in there, you have to decide. Personally, I would....just for the learning.

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:58 pm
by H12rpo
What.....put it through the still??? The way I read your earlier post you were saying to do so would contaminate the still

There wouldn't be much of a return anyway at only 4% abv .....40 pints would at best yield a little more than a pint a pint......maybe I'll keep it for a sacrificial run on the pot head when it's ready ?

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 10:22 pm
by packapoo
I used the 'could' word.

I'd doubt that there would be a hopping level here that would cause an issue.

Re: Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:10 am
by Easydrinker
Back in the days that I was young, and knew feck all,and interwebs didn't exist, I used to add extra sugar to canned beer kits, and run it twice through a homemade pot still.
I didn't know anything about making cuts.
I survived.
It may not have been the best produce. ;D
Learning is for life.

Robert.