Carbonation issues - Northern Ireland

[Markus]

You didn't sound confrontational, just added that in in case I did! :thumb:

I've only recently (last 4 brews) switched to bottle priming so I'll see how it goes. I have my method down now tho. The only thing that takes a lot of time is rinsing the bottles! I use milk crates and prime all 40 with a funnel (38 in case I brewed short actually), then fill them right out of the fridge using a little bottler, place the caps on loosely and finally cap all 40. This is the quickest. Doing each of these steps for each bottle individually would be an absolute nightmare, I definitely agree there.

BrewBilly, getting back to your original post... My Coopers Aussie has been the best carbonated brew I've done yet. But I left mine for at least 2 weeks in the warm to carbonate, same as all my brews. I only got to drink about 5 of mine cos relatives came round and tore into them and actually asked to take some home at the end of the night!!

 

[ScottM]

The only thing that takes a lot of time is rinsing the bottles!

A bottle rinser and a bottle tree is the answer here.

I can literally have all my bottles ready for bottling in less than 5 minutes.

I bring them down in crates, hang them on the bottling tree and then take them off 2 at a time to rinse in the bottle rinser with starsan before putting them back on the tree. Each bottle gets 3 pumps of solution before being put back. Takes around 5 seconds a bottle.

The important thing is that bottles are rinsed/cleaned immediately after use. When the bottle has just been emptied the sediment comes off no bother at all and the bottles are left clear. When I open a bottle I pour it then immediately rinse it out via the tap. My Wife then kindly washes the bottles with the rest of the dishes and places them in a crate I leave in the kitchen. When the crate is full I take it up he loft and place them with the rest of my bottles ready for the next batch. From there a quick couple of pumps of starsan and a 5 minute hang on the bottling tree is all that's required to have them ready for more beer

 

[Markus]

The important thing is that bottles are rinsed/cleaned immediately after use. When the bottle has just been emptied the sediment comes off no bother at all and the bottles are left clear.

Yep, definitely. I rinse out the previous night's collection the next day. Then bottling day it's into the dishwasher with them. The time consuming part is rinsing them after so they don't have traces of anything. I will defo look into a bottle rinser in future.

 

[bigboots]

BrewBilly and GeeK..............
What part of the country are you in? I'm in Killinchy, 1/2 way between N'ards and D'patrick.
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[BrewBilly]

BrewBilly and GeeK..............
What part of the country are you in? I'm in Killinchy, 1/2 way between N'ards and D'patrick.
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Bigboots, I am in Ballymena at the moment, but looking to move to Belfast soon. It would be good tof us Irish folk to get something together this side of the water.

Cheers
BrewBilly

 

[mattybabsy]

hi guys

we just had our first belfast area homebrew club meeting on friday- had 15 show up at the Hudson in Belfast

We are doing a brewday there on Sat 20th Apr if you are interested.

see the belfast section in the forums of http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/

thanks

matthew