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A firkin is said to hold 41 litres of beer. However a firkin will actually hold 44 litres of beer. Is the extra space there to allow a 3 litre air/CO2 space, or fill it and allow for 3 litres of trub, cloudy beer etc.?

Thanks Braufather

No steep in the empty fermenter.

Adding hops to your fermenter and then steeping in wort or water at 70c for 50 mins or so. I do this while I boil the wort. Loads of information on the net for the finer points and advantages. I have done about 10 brews with this method and I am very pleased with the results.

I am guessing that DIP Hopping for 50 mins. at 70C will yield about 5% IBU's . Anybody know how to calculate this more accurately? Thanks

Thanks will give it a try tomorrow.

Hello everyone. I will get to understand this RO water soon:laugh8: I brew in 54 litre batches, as I understand I adjust the RO water with salts for a 54 litre brew. However I use approx. 75 litres of water to get to my final amount of 54 litres. That means I have lost 21 litres of water, this...

It wiil be mounted on the wall and gravity will do all the hard work. 😅😅😅

Oh thanks Baron. That's where I have been going wrong. Filtering the Mash water and adding the salts in to the mash for the whole brew and not filtering the the sparge water I am getting salts overdose. I now need a 70 litre bucket to filter the water for the whole brew!

Hi, I bought a RO filter and have used it a couple of times. I thought that I had read that it was only necessary to use RO water in the mash water. But while setting up my brew this morning I thought this is probably wrong and I should filter the sparge water as well as the mash water. Thanks...

It will be conditioned as much as cask beer and pressure will be controlled by the spunding valve. The gas inlet will be bunged with a soft wooden spile, custom made, to allow air in. At the end of the session the keg can then be purged with CO2

I am looking to serve my beer from my kegorater using a hand pull pump. I want to secondary ferment in the keg , using a spunding valve to control the pressure, then connecting the pump to the out post after removing the poppet valve. Has anybody done this , if so I would appreciate any...

Many thanks for all your help boys. Next time I bottle beer , if ever. I will bottle it 8 weeks before it is to be drunk. I didn't cold crash, my beer usually clears without it. Cheers again. Just about to do a clone of Timothy Taylors Hopical Storm, They put the ingredients on there web site...

Thanks SebScott. The beer has just finished conditioning, and most has been drunk at the old boys reunion. I think the reason why it was so slow is the fact that I purged the bottles with CO2 and in so doing drove off most of the oxygen. Turned out a very nice beer and I am saving some for...

All bottles are the same. I opened another one, no gas. Instead of opening them all I checked the bottles for sediment, nothing. It fermented in 10 days and was bottled it in 2 weeks. I used non rinse steriliser for the bottles and left them to drain for half an hour.

Thanks Slid, it's been at 20C for 3 weeks. I think I will stick to my original plan and add a little yeast to each bottle as I am running out of time. I expect it will take 2 weeks to condition. Unless some one can come up with something different.

Thanks dad of jon, I realise this is the cause, but need to correct it immediately so it will condition in 2 weeks. Thanks

I opened a bottle of beer which I bottled 3 weeks ago. It was flat, no conditioning, I could taste the sweetness of the sugar. At this moment I am not too concerned about the cause, I just need to know the best way to get it conditioned quickly as it is for an old school reunion in 2 weeks. My...

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Thanks Guys, I agree. It must be the restriction of the hops in the bag. In my next brew I am putting the hop pellets directly into the kettle and filter them out before they get to the hopback. I have put up to 400 grams of hops in my hopback, great results if you are a Hophead! You can...