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I would agree with everyone above, get rid of your carbonation drops and try to batch prime in another FV. Makes life so much easier when bottling. I used the drops for my first brew and they did nothing but sit in the bottom of the bottles. Ended up with rather flat beer with no head and very...

Thanks very much for the advice, i'm going to brew a back up this week to have something else to look forward to just in case

Yeah this is what i'm hoping. However I am not going to hang around and wait for a load of ruined beer without having a back up! So i am going to head on and brew up another batch of something else.

I just bottled this and couldn't resist having a little sip of it before the final bottle. To me it tasted a little sour and wasnt that pleasant at all? Could it be infected with a nasty bacteria or was it just expecting it to be too sweet?

The blow off tube is exactly what I implemented on my second batch of Cooper Stout and definitely took most of the pressure away. The kit goes off like a rocket for about 24hours max then settles down quite quickly. The benefit of this is that it ferments out very quickly also. I switched back...

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Also RE priming the bottles check the beer priming calculator for a guide: http://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/ it will give you the correct amount to batch prime your second FV. I tend to dissolve my sugars in some hot water and rack the beer on top of it in the second FV. It...

I just started my second one of these after the first went crazy and popped the lid of my FV off over night, spewing beer all over my garage! I managed to contain this one with a blow off tube which took most of the pressure away and it seems to have calmed down now after 36hrs or so...