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One bottle at a time. Easier to just empty the syringe than insert a certain number of mls. Bottles ready in crate, dose them all first, then fill.

I've moved from half teaspoon into bottle via funnel to making sugar solution and injecting into bottle with syringe. It is quicker, and easier to get consistent amount per bottle.

I use a smidge for that vol, which is between an eighth and a quarter of a teaspoon

Maybe you can't understand it, but that doesn't mean that they have made a wrong choice. How you brew, and what you brew with, varies a great deal between individuals. It seems to me the key things are enjoying your brewing, and buying equipment that seems worth it to you which is within your...

Welcome! I think that makes 5 of us Geordies on here now, although I'm not sure 2 of them are still active. (OK I live near Berwick now, but I'm from Newcastle). Great forum, you will find lots of useful stuff and helpful people.

That might have been temperature variance, or it might have been that 1 week wasnt long enough and 2 weeks was. Did you have a maxmin thermometer by your bottles? I dont use heat belts, the room my bottles sit in to carbonate stays at 18-21 degrees and it carbonates fine in a fortnight.

+1 to all the 'no probs leaving it in the fv' comments

I've never presdure fermented so I cant comment on the orocess. But could the ingredients be at fault? What sort of kits were they - maybe they were rubbish? Or out of date? As mashbag said, have you treated your water? If everything is turning out tasteless, that could be an issue. Where I...

Brilliant pic

Wasn't familiar with Darkfarm, looked it up, amazing steampunk vibe there!

Yes, I love my G40. I was interested to hear the problems DCBrookes had, but luckily I don't have them. Grain escaping - not a problem for me, maybe thanks to my ancient hand milling machine, who knows. Never been an issue on mine though. Big and heavy - true, but gorgeous. I don't worry about...

Righto, ta. Shame, it looked quite good. Cheers

Thanks, that one gives me broadly similar additions to the HBF calculator, but goes for a very high CRS addition (29ml), unless I use batch size for 'volume to be treated' rather than total water volume.

Ah, OK. You'd have thought they'd have foxed it by now, 2 years ago. maybe it works in the app? I'm using the website. Cheers

Nope. Enabled, but still not seeing crs/ams

Enabled it, but still not seeing CRS/AMS. maybe need to create a brand new test recipe, will try that

ah, interesting, thanks. I couldn't see that, presumably because in my case it isn't 'enabled in water calculator settings'. Will try that! Cheers

I've re-read this thread now, and have tried to get a grasp on why you suggested the OPs use your defuddler, in order to understand what is going on. It seems like you were happy with the Ca, Mg, Na, SO4 and CL from the water reports, but you weren't happy with the CO3/HCO3. I get that figure...

Had another look at it, created a recipe to try it out, but the problem is it only caters for lactic or phosphoric acid - not AMS/CRS. I guess I could switch to lactic if I wanted to use it.

Very helpful, thanks for this