SteveM
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Good morning all
I’ve just completed my first brew, tried a couple of bottles last night and pleased with the results. I made a fairly simple (I was told) citra IPA and compared to a citra IPA I saw in M&S - mine isn’t quite as clear but tastes similar.
I used one of brew UK’s starter kits and managed to get a old fridge off the internet and bought an inkbird temp controller and small greenhouse heater - and that has worked out well so far.
After fermenting (2 weeks) I kegged the beer with the priming sugar added first into the bottom of the keg and then I bottled half of the keg before leaving everything again for another two weeks.
the bottles are fizzy (swing top one’s) but my keg hasn’t fizzed at all.
the keg is only about half full - is that likely to be the reason - too much headspace in the keg?
my thought was to bottle what’s left in the keg and add some more sugar to try and rescue approx 10L?
plenty of learning still to do!
I’ve just completed my first brew, tried a couple of bottles last night and pleased with the results. I made a fairly simple (I was told) citra IPA and compared to a citra IPA I saw in M&S - mine isn’t quite as clear but tastes similar.
I used one of brew UK’s starter kits and managed to get a old fridge off the internet and bought an inkbird temp controller and small greenhouse heater - and that has worked out well so far.
After fermenting (2 weeks) I kegged the beer with the priming sugar added first into the bottom of the keg and then I bottled half of the keg before leaving everything again for another two weeks.
the bottles are fizzy (swing top one’s) but my keg hasn’t fizzed at all.
the keg is only about half full - is that likely to be the reason - too much headspace in the keg?
my thought was to bottle what’s left in the keg and add some more sugar to try and rescue approx 10L?
plenty of learning still to do!