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Just to note the 2L bottles still seem to have the older mineral content.

Don't know if this effect anyone but the mineral content of Tesco Ashbeck has changed. Mainly an increase in Bicarb and PH but Mg has gone up slightly as well as sulfate, chloride and calcium.

What am I looking at? Cherry tomatoes 1/4ed in drugs bags?

Exactly that. However it tends to be that I know I have let's say 19L and 500ml bottles so I calculate the amount of sugar water etc for 44 bottle rather than 38 bottle so I have excess 1) for just incase and 2) it's so hard to draw up into the syringe with not much at the bottom of the...

Priming spreadsheet I think this will link you to a shared version. If just copy and paste it into your own spreadsheet. Let me know when you've done it as I'll change the access. So when I measure the water I do it Grams.

I wouldn't use it if it were me unless I was only using it for a max of 2.1vol.co2. It may be that they designed the bottle for one use as it should be able to take 2.8vol.co2 easily for its first use. However I'm overly cautious. But put it this way Westmalle bottles are 33cl but weigh like 50g...

So I've started my learning. Banks Bitter bottle isn't that bad as 303g which by my calculations would be a max "safe" of 2.3 vol.co2 (conservative estimate) for 89p this isn't bad at all and the label came off piss easy in got water. The random Aldi ruby bottle was 281g this would have a...

I use repurposed Belgian bottles especially by Westmalle for Belgian style beer which I aim 3+ as they should be safe above 4 vol.co². I have never batched primed I always create the solution then syringe the correct amount into each bottle. Reduces o2 exposure and means I bottle straight from...

That is odd. Are these the ones you got? Brown Glass Beer Bottles x 24 With Crown Caps or the 12 pack? I emailed them and they said they weighed 330g.

This may be possibility, however I won't get the excuse of drinking extra beer. 🤣 Do you know the weight of the bottles (uncapped) and are the weights consistent? Thanks

I have a calculation I do for maximum Vol.Co2 which accounts for 25% reduction in strength for bottles not intended for reuse (probably very overboard but I'd prefer to know what the theoretical "safe" limit of a bottle is before I use it). In this case a bottle of 350g for a 500ml bottle would...

I am getting bored of cleaning and replacing gaskets, cleaning the cages and some not being tight despite being adjusted on my flip top bottles (not my Grolsch ones - they are great). I am looking for a commercial brown 500ml beer bottle which weighs around 350g and 335g as minimum and also the...

I bottle at cold crash temperatures so between 0-3C, the bottles are at room temp normally between 15-20C however in winter the bottles would have been close to 2-4C and the in summer up to 30C and consistently never any foam whilst filling from a bottling wand.

I use a bottling wand and there is zero agitation or foam. I don't know how I would achieve this.

How do you cap on foam when you're bottle conditioning and not kegging/bottling from a keg? Also I've bottled 2ml headspace in the past with no Carbonation issues. I just struggled to pour it without spilling, that was the main issue.

I do it a little bit different I use a syringe to measure out a sugar solution to each bottle then bottle wand to about 10ml headspace and then cap. I may have to add leaving the caps loose to my regime. I wonder if the off gassing of co2 is enough in quantity to remove all air from the...

I am wondering if bottling at cold crash temps of 0-3C then leaving the filled bottles (I sightly over fill to reduce headspace) with a loose cap (or flip top) resting on top as you go will allow the liquid to warm slightly to release co2 from the solution before capping if left for 10-20mins...

Yeah no problems when I tape the temp probe to the FV and cover the probes with a sponge.

I just go 0.3C each way then put a 10 min compressor delay on. However that's probably not helpful as you don't use a ferm chamber

I have used two packs in the past however I'm looking to save money sometimes. Does rehydrating the yeast increase the OG that it would work well on? Or could I just buy a cheaper neutral yeast like Nottingham or the Wilko yeast which is like Nottingham and pair that with my Verdant dry yeast...