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BigYin
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welcome to the forum, and good luck with your first brew :drink:
Dunfie
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Hi lium, welcome to the forum.
Hope your first brew goes well. :
Hope your first brew goes well. :
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Welcome to the Forum Lium, any problems, just ask.
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Moley said:Welcome to the forum :
What part of Scotland and what is your first brew?
I'm living in Edinburgh. There's a new homebrew shop here called Alba (Which is by the way the Gaelic name for Scotland, pr. A-la-ba) so that in part prompted my first brew.
I'm not sure how well my brew is going - no bubbles coming through the valve, but I'm told gas might be escaping through the lid as it is not 100% airtight apparently.
Anyway, I didn't give the brew a good stir when I sprinkled in the yeast (stirred it plenty before) and I'm wondering if that is part of the reason for seeing less activity than I expected. I'm going to open it tonight and give it a good stir and take a hydrometer reading. (just got it, hence no initial reading)
There is a bit of froth on top and going up the edge of the bucket just above the liquid.
frickindrink
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:clap: welcome from another newbie fae glasgow and happy brewing :grin:
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Not particularly relishing sterilising and rinsing 40-odd bottles... so if anyone's got any tips on how to speed up the task I will gladly take them.
I foolishly didn't rinse some of the bottles when I drank the original beer and some had mould in them - I washed them when removing the labels so I hope they will be OK. I didn't have a brush that would reach the bottom of the bottle.
I foolishly didn't rinse some of the bottles when I drank the original beer and some had mould in them - I washed them when removing the labels so I hope they will be OK. I didn't have a brush that would reach the bottom of the bottle.
frickindrink
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what i tend to do is half fill a 5 gallon fv with warm water and add milton sterilising tabs then submerge your bottles in it as many as you can for 20 mins and you dont have to rinse them happy brewing. : :thumb:
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BigYin
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I just set up a bit of production line by the kitchen sink. I'm not comfortable not rinsing the milton solution out as it does have a stromg smell :?
dribble a little bit of milton into each bottle, fill each bottle with hot water, empty bottle out as filling emptied bottle with cold water and empty.
Whole process takes maybe 20 minutes or so. You are then left with 40 wet but clean bottles. At the moment I prime them all with sugar at this stage, but next brew I'll be either syringing in a sugar solution to each bottle, or if I have aquired another FV I'll do the batch prime method as is demonstrated elsewhere on this forum...
I have a little bottler which makes a huge difference to the speed of bottling the beer, then capping time. Job done :mrgreen:
dribble a little bit of milton into each bottle, fill each bottle with hot water, empty bottle out as filling emptied bottle with cold water and empty.
Whole process takes maybe 20 minutes or so. You are then left with 40 wet but clean bottles. At the moment I prime them all with sugar at this stage, but next brew I'll be either syringing in a sugar solution to each bottle, or if I have aquired another FV I'll do the batch prime method as is demonstrated elsewhere on this forum...
I have a little bottler which makes a huge difference to the speed of bottling the beer, then capping time. Job done :mrgreen:
BigYin
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Complete-Little-B ... b2f9cbcd76
it attaches to a tap at the base of the FV.
It's a rigid tube with a needle valve at the bottom.
You offer up the empty, sterilised, bottle so the tube goes down the neck of the bottle, when the needle valve hits the bottom of the bottle the beer flows out, when it reaches the neck of the bottle you lower the bottle and the flow stops.
When you take the bottle away, the beer drops down in the bottle by the equivalent volume of the tube, leaving a perfect 'head space' in the bottle to allow expansion as CO2 builds once the cap is on.
My attempts at syphoning the beer were, er, messy. With this I get a few drips. I position the dogs bowl underneath the tap and let them clean the drips up :lol:
it attaches to a tap at the base of the FV.
It's a rigid tube with a needle valve at the bottom.
You offer up the empty, sterilised, bottle so the tube goes down the neck of the bottle, when the needle valve hits the bottom of the bottle the beer flows out, when it reaches the neck of the bottle you lower the bottle and the flow stops.
When you take the bottle away, the beer drops down in the bottle by the equivalent volume of the tube, leaving a perfect 'head space' in the bottle to allow expansion as CO2 builds once the cap is on.
My attempts at syphoning the beer were, er, messy. With this I get a few drips. I position the dogs bowl underneath the tap and let them clean the drips up :lol:
BigYin
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well, yes! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I got mine supplied with the tap - needed a drill (34mm ?? ) to cut the hole in the FV.
I got mine supplied with the tap - needed a drill (34mm ?? ) to cut the hole in the FV.
Cussword
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: Welcome Lium, I've taken the bottom 
off my little bottler & gauge by eye, or it drips everywhere :whistle:
Welcome Lium, I've taken the bottom off my little bottler & gauge by eye, or it drips everywhere :whistle:
