I love this concept; clearer beer, no racking & less mess. You mentioned in the video a bottling gun which enables bottling under pressure. How does this work and what equipment do I need? If I could eliminate the bottling bucket and just fill & cap bottles, that would be awesome. Presumably I could do away with bulk priming too as the beer is already carbonated. Thanks for a great clip.
Thanks for the vid. Very informative. Just a quick question. I notice you ferment from the start with the pressure lid. Do you just let the CO2 vent through the pressure release valve (so it is acting a bit like an air lock)? Or do you regularly manually release the pressure? I have a Fermentasauras but have been using the air lock during primary and swapping lids when I do the first trub dump.
I have been using the pressure lid straight through and just venting a couple of times the 1st day or two while its really active then letting it ferment under pressure the rest of the time
I added 1 lb of dextrose to my wort at the 5 min remaining boil. This DOES increase the ABV. Other more experienced brewers told me to start with 1 lb making a 5 gal batch as a bench mark. It worked! In my case I made a session IPA kit beer with a starting gravity of 1.050 and ended with a final gravity of 1.002 which made a 6.3% ABV beer. It turned out GREAT! You'd add the dextrose water mix at bottling to carbonate the beer in the bottle. That's my preferred method. Donlt know why you'd add sugar at secondary...I'd be afraid it may ruin the beer.
Its for the natural carbonation, it is still yeast in the beer, adding dextrose will feed enough the yeast to produce CO2 but not too much to increase the ABV maybe just a little bit, but this process will need 2 more weeks of natural carbonation
I love this concept; clearer beer, no racking & less mess. You mentioned in the video a bottling gun which enables bottling under pressure. How does this work and what equipment do I need? If I could eliminate the bottling bucket and just fill & cap bottles, that would be awesome. Presumably I could do away with bulk priming too as the beer is already carbonated. Thanks for a great clip.
Thanks for the vid. Very informative. Just a quick question. I notice you ferment from the start with the pressure lid. Do you just let the CO2 vent through the pressure release valve (so it is acting a bit like an air lock)? Or do you regularly manually release the pressure? I have a Fermentasauras but have been using the air lock during primary and swapping lids when I do the first trub dump.
I have been using the pressure lid straight through and just venting a couple of times the 1st day or two while its really active then letting it ferment under pressure the rest of the time
How does your tap there at the top hook up? Is that some kind of adapter for it or is it basically like a mini-keg hookup?
Exactly the same connections on the top of the fermenter as the top of a corny keg, can attach tap and gas direct to ball lock posts
Sounds good, thank you much.
Why would you add sugar in the secondary? To give it a higher ABV?
I think this is for carbonation.
I added 1 lb of dextrose to my wort at the 5 min remaining boil. This DOES increase the ABV. Other more experienced brewers told me to start with 1 lb making a 5 gal batch as a bench mark. It worked!
In my case I made a session IPA kit beer with a starting gravity of 1.050 and ended with a final gravity of 1.002 which made a 6.3% ABV beer. It turned out GREAT!
You'd add the dextrose water mix at bottling to carbonate the beer in the bottle. That's my preferred method.
Donlt know why you'd add sugar at secondary...I'd be afraid it may ruin the beer.
Its for the natural carbonation, it is still yeast in the beer, adding dextrose will feed enough the yeast to produce CO2 but not too much to increase the ABV maybe just a little bit, but this process will need 2 more weeks of natural carbonation
What is the sanitizer?
Sorry a bit late, but you can grab sanitise here www.ikegger.com/search?type=product,page,article&q=sanitiser*
Wort kit?
sigh not available in the UK :(
We are now :) ikegger.eu/
What the fuck is troob? You mean trub right?