Wilkos can of beer kit 40 pints

[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!

[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

[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

[packapoo]

I started off by saying.... I was

[Mash]

Not necessarily... I thought that too, but didn't have time to reply

[Easydrinker]

I just saw someone making beer.
Interesting how people see things

Robert

[packapoo]

Or don't.

Depends on your POV really....

[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

[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I have just bottled, into anything I could find, a mates dodgy out of date,, from a concentrate can, beer.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

Robert.

[packapoo]

There is another way of not wasting it too, Robert.

Just saying.....

[H12rpo]

This can wasn't out of date.
What's the other way not to wast it then?

[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.

[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 ?

[packapoo]

I used the 'could' word.

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

[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.
Learning is for life.

Robert.