Please please read on, there follows a very very sad story. I post this here to try and help prevent others befall the fate that happened to me last night.
As you know money is getting tighter, so it's getting harder and harder to put groceries on the table. We have had to take out some of our own austerity measures. Yes folks, shop bought beer has to go.
But it's ok because I am a happy happy happy homebrewer
And I got bought a shed load of beer kits for Christmas
So all it costs me is a kilo of sugar to brew 40 of your English pints.
I resurrected me pressure barrels, set to work and in the past week have barrelled 80 pints (two barrels worth) and am working on liberating a barrel left over from Christmas that still has a few pints left in
No the thing is with these barrels is that you need to inject CO2 into them from time to time, and the CO2 bulbs that you get from Wilkinson are a very expensive way to go about this. Years ago you could use a soda stream canister, just wind it on the thead of the regulator until you hear a shooshing noise, hold for a couple of seconds and then unscrew.
So I perked up when I saw sodastream canisters in Asda for £18.97, and bought one.
This is where the story takes a tearful twist folks. The S30 regulator on my barrel that used to fit a sodastream canister no longer does. They changed the fitting on the sodastream
And the only place that does a coupling is in Germany!
Please please please do not fall into this trap, learn from my mistake.
Thank you for reading.
As you know money is getting tighter, so it's getting harder and harder to put groceries on the table. We have had to take out some of our own austerity measures. Yes folks, shop bought beer has to go.
But it's ok because I am a happy happy happy homebrewer
And I got bought a shed load of beer kits for Christmas
So all it costs me is a kilo of sugar to brew 40 of your English pints.
I resurrected me pressure barrels, set to work and in the past week have barrelled 80 pints (two barrels worth) and am working on liberating a barrel left over from Christmas that still has a few pints left in
No the thing is with these barrels is that you need to inject CO2 into them from time to time, and the CO2 bulbs that you get from Wilkinson are a very expensive way to go about this. Years ago you could use a soda stream canister, just wind it on the thead of the regulator until you hear a shooshing noise, hold for a couple of seconds and then unscrew.
So I perked up when I saw sodastream canisters in Asda for £18.97, and bought one.
This is where the story takes a tearful twist folks. The S30 regulator on my barrel that used to fit a sodastream canister no longer does. They changed the fitting on the sodastream
And the only place that does a coupling is in Germany!
Please please please do not fall into this trap, learn from my mistake.
Thank you for reading.
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