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So Asda have grolsch on 4 for £5 so I have just asked Mrs L to pick me up 8 bottles as they are only 450ml I would need over 50 to get 40 pints worth of brew bottled.
As I have had a bad experience with my pressure barrel cap!
I intend on bottling my next brew however, I can not afford the initial out lay and so I am going to buy grolsch and drink it bit by bit!
But I was wondering, when I brew my next I intend on leaving it in the FV for 2 solid weeks instead of 10 days, use 85g of cane sugar made into a solution with 1 pint of water and cool it down to room temp, then put in in my barrel and top up with my brew, put a cap on the barrel and then role the barrel on the floor for a while to help mix the solution and brew together.
Once done I intend to start bottling as many bottles as I have with a little bottler, to do this I would need to remove the cap IOT to let the beer flow.
Then say I have 50% bottled and 50% barrelled i now fit the CO2 cap on the barrel and inject CO2 into the barrel when the rest of the brew starts it's secondary fermention any existing O2 and excess CO2 should be released from the barrel (right)
I have been reading conflicting information regards using a pressure barrel that came with your starter kit as a batch primer but I can not see a problem with doing it as it is cost effective.
Would 85g of sugar be enough for bottles?
I know if I used more sugar and left half the brew in the barrel it would not be much of an issue as the gap has a release valve the brew would still be flatter from the barrel than in the bottle regardless, because the CO2 can escape and not carbonate the brew.
Is my understanding correct and does anyone else do this?
So Asda have grolsch on 4 for £5 so I have just asked Mrs L to pick me up 8 bottles as they are only 450ml I would need over 50 to get 40 pints worth of brew bottled.
As I have had a bad experience with my pressure barrel cap!
I intend on bottling my next brew however, I can not afford the initial out lay and so I am going to buy grolsch and drink it bit by bit!
But I was wondering, when I brew my next I intend on leaving it in the FV for 2 solid weeks instead of 10 days, use 85g of cane sugar made into a solution with 1 pint of water and cool it down to room temp, then put in in my barrel and top up with my brew, put a cap on the barrel and then role the barrel on the floor for a while to help mix the solution and brew together.
Once done I intend to start bottling as many bottles as I have with a little bottler, to do this I would need to remove the cap IOT to let the beer flow.
Then say I have 50% bottled and 50% barrelled i now fit the CO2 cap on the barrel and inject CO2 into the barrel when the rest of the brew starts it's secondary fermention any existing O2 and excess CO2 should be released from the barrel (right)
I have been reading conflicting information regards using a pressure barrel that came with your starter kit as a batch primer but I can not see a problem with doing it as it is cost effective.
Would 85g of sugar be enough for bottles?
I know if I used more sugar and left half the brew in the barrel it would not be much of an issue as the gap has a release valve the brew would still be flatter from the barrel than in the bottle regardless, because the CO2 can escape and not carbonate the brew.
Is my understanding correct and does anyone else do this?
