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I just poped a bottle of my newest lager all grain beer (2nd time doing all gain) and its weak carbonation, 750ml bottles i used the carbonation drops as i had couple packets sitting there, use 2 drops per bottle, as packet says to, should i have used 3 or 4? and am I able to add more drops now...

was a bitter, and yes i think was over excited new toys to use etc so other than drinking as is or throwing out not much can be done? adding water will lessen the gravty but will also kill the flavours ya?

so what is an option to fix this? or is it jst sweet beer day

not using a refractometer, taking a sample and floating the hydromter in it to get the reading, also tasted the sample and its very sweet. so adding more yeast wont change it, what are the options? more water or will that jst dilute the flavour? the mash temperature was between 76c and 81c

I did my first all grain brew bout 4weeks ago, everything seems to go well a few things to change for the next time to make it faster etc what that issue is i started with 1.048 after 4wks its at 1.028 and has stopped bubbling in the air trap bout 5 days ago. Should I leave it for a another...

Hi, im a chef and at work we use Q'san to sanitize benches chopping boards etc diluted down to bout 15ml in 1lt of water according to the back of the bottle they say, is food safe at that level, leave 3 to 4mins and good to use the active ingredient is Alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride...

Yah I was going to build an CFC but after reading bout whirlpool immersion chiller i was thinking of going that way, but first starting off with a immersion then upgrading to whirlpool later on with a pump and a little more copper piping If i went with a CFC i'd still need to use a pump...

Hi, about to buy the copper piping for an Immersion chiller, ive been reading different howto's some say 25ft (7.62m) to 50ft(15.24m) then i was reading for a 6gal(23lt) batch is a 16ft(5m) immersion chiller offers the maximum efficiency what length is the best to make?

cheers for the quick reply thanks for clearing that up, just been watching some youtube and noticed most just dump the hops right in, wondered if there was a reason.

Just a question bout placing the hops in a muslinbag into the wort? has anyone tryed it? or does it not get the water around the hops ? I was going to weigh off my hops tie them in to a muslinbag and just drop one in at each interval, or is it just better to dump right into the wort and...

Thanks for the replies. Im not upto doing it yet jst reading books an nothing is mentioned about mixing yeasts jst a question I had bout it I'll get back to yas when I get upto it cheers

I new brewer here. Question bout liquid yeasts. Reading about it say the give better results and have a flavour difference each type. Are u able to use two different types of yeast in the brew