Homebrew antics
I like to make my own homebrew and have been doing so for many years; some homebrews are good and some homebrews are bad.

One year I made a particularly good batch of ale and invited a few friends round to sample some. On this occasion I had two batches of the stuff on the go one in the pressure barrel and another in some bottles. As the evening progressed we all became highly refreshed and ran out of the bottled stuff so needless to say we progressed on to the ale from the pressure barrel. It was at this point when everything went wrong. I pour out five pints of lovely refreshing nut brown ale, one of my friends was the first to taste it and then started making a strange noise and blurted out "This beer is flat! It has no fizz in it!". That's when I realised I should have used the CO2 injector to fizzify the beer in the barrel. I had no CO2 cartridges left, so instead of drinking the flat beer we all went out to the pub for a few more beers and had quite a good night.

When making homebrew in the pressure barrel I now always make sure I'm well stocked up on CO2 cartidges.
( The Duke of Prunes, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 21:16, Reply)