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Been searching for an answer to this but getting varied answers so thought I would now ask the experts! Getting ready to bottle using the bulk priming method with sugar. What I am trying to find out is how much co2 the carbs tabs produce. I did a Coopers kit and bottled at the rate of 2 drops...

I like the idea of priming with a syringe like this but my memory comes back of my first bottle priming session using carb drops, I started wondering "did I put drops in that bottle - should I add more" then BANG! or flat beer. This is why I think I will do the bulk priming - do it once! - then...

Thank you all for your great info! - just to be fair to LHBS they may well have totally misunderstood my inane ramblings so I will give them the benefit of the doubt - I appreciate all the help. Dave

Thanks - I am very interested in the syringe method! could I ask - assuming you have mixed the solution to the quantity for a bulk prime, what rate of solution per 500ml bottle do you use.

Been talking to the LHBS re bottling equipment and they have told me I should not rack to another FV prior to adding priming sugar solution as I will likely not bring over enough active yeast to carbonate - not suggesting they are wrong of course but most of what I have read says to rack to...

Thanks Dave, I thought I had read the range was from 15 - 26c so I guess it was too low - will have to be more careful in the future with my experiments!

Hi All, Today the beer reached 1.010 so I decided to add the dry hops - 30g Citra and 30g Cascade. Just before hopping I had a good look at the beer and there is an awful lot of stuff "suspended" in the beer - not noticed this before. It looks like a lot of very fine sand - I haven't moved...

Thanks all for taking the time to reply. For me I am more interested in the flavour than the clarity so as this is a sort of an experimental brew, I am going to chuck them in loose and see how it turns out. This brew has taken it's time so a bit wary of leaving it another few days to cold...

About do do my first dry hop in a kit beer but I can't decide to use a bag weighed down or just chucked in loose - using pellets but assume this won't make a difference. What's the consensus on this - does it make a difference to the amount of flavour imparted. Clearly it will make it easier to...

Hi all, This brew has slowed right down - my hydro reading are showing 1.019 - from 1.022 on the 13th so slowing down - I am hoping this will keep going - I raised the fridge temp 2 deg c couple of days ago to see if this would move thing along as it seems to have slowed a lot - current temp 20...

Hi all, Whist searching for kit brews to do I came across an idea by Roy Lake on Youtube where he makes something called a "Cascarillo". This was made with liquid malt extract and two hops - Cascade and Amarillo. Thing is when he talked through the recipe he said he boiled the hopes with some...

So I decided to give the refractometer a go - I checked the calibration - spot on and did a reading - 7 Brix - I then found this site https://brucrafter.com/convert-brix-to-sg/ where they have a converter allowing for alchohol and the reading was 1.016 - so I then did a hydro reading which was...

Will do and thanks - was trying to prepare for the winter brews as it's just cooling at the moment.

For some weird reason this wont install on any of my Android devices - incompatible! emailed the author to see why - strange.

Hi, I think the OPs point and mine is that when the heater kicks in and the stat reaches temp then the heater turns off there is a lot of residual heat so the temp maybe keeps on rising so then the cooling kicks in and so on. I take your point and I was thinking for the sake of £10 PID would...

I know this is a very old thread but did anyone ever have any more thoughts on this? anyone tried it? I have decided to have a go at using an STC for the cooling side with the STC probe taped to the FV and a PID controlling the heater with the probe measuring the space. I am feeling that in...

Hi David, thanks for the comments - I did think about doing this but was very nervous about keep opening the lid to let the bugs in - I take my sample from the tap - but also in my last brew the foam head was so huge it would have meant I wouldn't have been be able to see the hydrometer! May...

Hi, I have looked for BrixCalc did you mean Brix Calculator? as this is the only Brix Android app I see there - or am I not looking properly!! Cheers

Hi - yes starting to realise that and I have started to gradually raise the temp - suppose I could call it a diacetyl rest! UPDATE: just mooched around a few sites and it seems the ideal recommended temp range for US 05 is 15 -22 deg so if this is correct my temp at 18 c seems ok?

Just had a panic - an earlier post asked me to check the fridge temp just in case - and it suddenly come to me that as I have the probe taped to the bin covered with insulation that I am obviously measuring the liquid temp not the ambient fridge temp - this is 15.2 c is this ok or should I...