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    Are you sure it’s finished fermenting? If it hasn’t then you’ll have exploding bottles or at best, way over carbonated beer. A week would be on the quick side.

    It fizzes by adding some sugar back for the residual yeast, but this time the bottles are sealed so the CO2 goes into the beer instead of out the airlock.

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    Have you a bottling bucket or are you bottling straight from the fermenter?

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    Cool, cheers. Not 100%, need to check it but the kit instructions say 4-6 days and this is day 7. I will check with hydrometer first though.

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    Yeah I’d ignore them as there’s a good few factors that will determine how long it’ll take. I normally just leave everything 2 weeks now unless doing specific dry hopping or something.
    Test the gravity and then again tomorrow. If the temperature is still in the ok range then you’re done with the same reading two days in a row.

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    Looking forward to the inevitable disappointment when it tastes like a flat drinkable mulled hot cross bun.
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    My bottling setup is fairly basic still, no pressure transfers or electric pumps or anything. I think I’ve most of my process covered below so you can see if there’s anything you need or want to skip.

    Clean everything. I disassemble bottling sticks and syphons down to their parts and clean and reassemble.
    Fill up something with around 15 litres of a no rinse sanitiser. I use a big plastic box.

    Wash out each of your bottles with sanitiser and place on a bottling tree or upside down in a crate or something. I use a pump style washer but submerging and draining will do if they’re clean in the first place.

    While the bottles drain, put half the sanitiser in the bottling bucket and leave it to sit, and put your syphon and wand and all in the rest in the plastic box. Suck up some sanitiser into the lines.

    Calculate how much priming sugar is needed (link below). Boil the amount in some water (around a cup) for a couple of minutes and chill to 20C. I put ice in a sink of water and put the saucepan in it.

    Swirl the sanitiser around the bottling bucket, touching all surfaces, and tip it out. Then put the cooled sugar water into it.
    Drain the siphon of sanitiser and siphon from the fermenter into the bottling bucket and it will mix with the sugary wate
    r. Be careful as the bottom inch or two will be spent yeast. Don’t suck it up if you can.

    Put the spring loaded bottling wand on the tap of the bottling bucket and use that to fill the bottles by pressing against the bottom. Fill right to the top until they near overflow. The wand is the right size to leave enough head space.

    Cap them and leave them in a dark place around 20C for a fortnight to carbonate.

    If you’ve no bottling bucket and are bottling straight from the fermenter (more chance of crap in the bottles from the bottom though) then ignore the red above and just put something like 3/4 tsp sugar or a carb drop in each bottle before bottling.
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    Priming calculator. The temperature is the fermentation temp and the volume is how much you’ll have in the bottling bucket once siphoned.

    https://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/

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    There’s one where no bottling bucket or batch prime is done.



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    Fair play to the home brewers. This sounds like a massive pain in the arse to do if it's not something you have a passion for.

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    Batch priming.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Fair play to the home brewers. This sounds like a massive pain in the arse to do if it's not something you have a passion for.
    Most hardcore ones have keg and tap systems and very rarely bottle. That means they have sheds though.

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    Cheers Giggles. I'll go through everything later. Much Appreciated.

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    The videos make it sound easier than I did

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    Trying the Kveik Session IPA tonight. Much nicer.

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    That can with a big TS on it (throwing shapes) should actually be called Tethered Swimming.

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    Double Punk from the calendar today. A step in the right directly but they need to up their game still.

    Now on 8 Wired's 'Double Scoop.' A raspberry chocolate brownie stout. It's lovely.

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    Some Chianti Classico for me tonight. Nice red but a bit too heavy for my liking.

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    I’m on some of Boydys lot. Lacada NEIPA. Not bad, though not a fan of that style overall.
    Last edited by Giggles; 06-12-2020 at 06:29 AM.

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    My what?

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    Bigger Boat hazy pale now. It's not bad but it's not as good as the Kveik which was bloody lovely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    I’m on some of Boydys lot. Lacada NEIPA. Not bad, though not a dash of that style overall.
    NEIPAs are always good, aren't they?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    My what?
    Nordie one. Lacada, never had anything by them before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Nordie one. Lacada, never had anything by them before.
    Never heard of them. Where are they from?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Never heard of them. Where are they from?
    Portrush. I’ve seen them mentioned a fair bit in beer circles and they seem to get rave reviews. Off licence I go to just started stocking 4 of their beers. I normally don’t like NEIPA’s a big pile but that was the best one of them I’ve had in ages.

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    Really want to try the Blackrocks Black IPA by them. Looking at the website it appears they’re a co-op you can buy into.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Spikey's got some 'Live, Laugh, Love' shit in his house, no doubt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post


    Lol.

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    Hydrometer has gone from 1.052 to 1.028. I will check again tomorrow, but does that seem about right? It's day 8.

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    Check is it stable again tomorrow. 1.028 is fairly high to finish though, what’s the temp?

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    Currently 18c. Fluctuating between there and 20c. Down the other end was between 20 and 24c. Not sure which is better? If it is the same tomorrow is there anything I can add to give it a nudge again?

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    The slightly cooler I’d say. Too cool can stall it but it can be got going again, too hot can kill it. 18 should be enough to keep it going but it might take longer to ferment out.

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    Should add that the airlock has been quiet for the last few days. Not seen it bubble for a while now.

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    The Brewdog / Cloudwater NEIPA in the calendar today. Which I know is nice, so a thumbs up for that despite me still waiting for something a bit more inspired.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Should add that the airlock has been quiet for the last few days. Not seen it bubble for a while now.
    You wouldn't always see it going depending on head space and all. Slightly press on the bucket lid and see if there's pressure in there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    You wouldn't always see it going depending on head space and all. Slightly press on the bucket lid and see if there's pressure in there.
    Yeah it still bubbles if I press on the lid slightly. I have moved it back down the other end today as it was sitting at 15c when I woke up this morning. I may just have to keep moving the bloody thing.

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    Near on 1010 today Giggs, and there's some bubbles on top of the beer again. It smells like blackcurrant which is interesting. Will check again tomorrow but I'm in the 'bottle' zone my hydrometer has so hopefully good to go.

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    1010 sounds way better. I’d still go for the same for the two consecutive days but I’d reckon for an ale that’s probably it.

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    5.5% that’ll be.

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    Swish. Cheers. Better than the 4.8% the pack reckoned, but I took your advice and did 15 litres instead of 16 so that worked a treat.

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    Yeah it’s a better way to bump it up than adding sugar. You can end up with too strong an alcohol taste doing the latter if not careful.

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    So what makes cans of beer foam up loads when you open them (other than shaking them, I'm not that daft)? Is it that they're too cold? Is it something happening inside the can? I ask only as those Atlanteans I bought a joblot of a while back are an absolute bitch for it. Not foaming all over the shop bad, but always quite a lot of foam to the point where you need to consume it before attempting to pour the beer out.

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    A third of the way through the Brewdog advent calendar and everything has been a pale today and off the top of my head I'd say half have been the core range.

    I don't expect everything to be an impy stout, lads, but mix it the fuck up a bit more than this.

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    Sounds perfect.
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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    So what makes cans of beer foam up loads when you open them (other than shaking them, I'm not that daft)? Is it that they're too cold? Is it something happening inside the can? I ask only as those Atlanteans I bought a joblot of a while back are an absolute bitch for it. Not foaming all over the shop bad, but always quite a lot of foam to the point where you need to consume it before attempting to pour the beer out.
    As I understand it, it's the same reason they explode if you bottle them too early (or can them, I assume). The yeast reacts with the sugar, releases CO2 and pressurises the bottle / can.

    Now we get into guess territory, but I presume the head (or atleast its staying power) is due to the thickness of the beer? That's why a Guinness keeps its head but a lager doesn't? Dunno.

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    I'm looking forwars to Spikey telling us he's given himself the shits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    As I understand it, it's the same reason they explode if you bottle them too early (or can them, I assume). The yeast reacts with the sugar, releases CO2 and pressurises the bottle / can.

    Now we get into guess territory, but I presume the head (or atleast its staying power) is due to the thickness of the beer? That's why a Guinness keeps its head but a lager doesn't? Dunno.
    Different malts will give better or worse head retention, it’s mainly getting a balance so they don’t give flavours that you don’t want in it.
    Draught Guinness is different because it’s done with nitrogen instead of CO2. Gives the creamy head.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Different malts will give better or worse head retention, it’s mainly getting a balance so they don’t give flavours that you don’t want in it.
    Draught Guinness is different because it’s done with nitrogen instead of CO2. Gives the creamy head.
    You should start up your own brewery Giggs. You know your shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    You should start up your own brewery Giggs. You know your shit.
    I wouldn’t have a clue when it comes to making my own recipes. The ones I’m doing now are ones found online and modified with some advice from my brewing club. I don’t think I’d ever go as deep as some of them though, even in the equipment and process side of things. Dandelion saison sand kettle sours and that kind of thing.
    The nitro on the guinness is a class job. They did a nitro pale ale a few years back which had the same head as the stout, it was weird.

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