dolan
Member
Hey all,
I've posted here a couple of times with my newbie questions and have received a great amount of help. I'm here with a few more.
I just started a 1 gallon batch of Irish Stout. For the first three days I had some tubing stretched from my cork stopper into a half-full glass of water to deal with any "blowback". After day three, I went to replace the tubing with an airlock to continue fermentation - only to notice that I'm missing the center part of my three-piece airlock. My question is, should I buy a new airlock ASAP, or can I just leave the tubing in the water and have it function in the same way? (As far as I can tell they serve the same purpose)
Now for my next questions. During my last batch of brew I had quite a few problems, one of them was carbonation. I had tried mixing in some sugar and hot water after moving it from the primary fermenter to some bottles but it never seemed to carbonate. I recently bought some brewing carbonation tablets meant to be used in bottling, but unfortunately all of my bottles were broken in a recent move. (Although I realize now I should have boiled and mixed the sugar before adding it, which may have been the problem)
I was planning to use a 1 gallon glass carboy to store the brew instead of buying more bottles, is it alright for me to carbonate my brew in the carboy, acting as one giant bottle? If so, would you recommend I still give the carbonation tablets a go, or use the sucrose method? If you think I should give the tablets a try, how many should I use? The bag says 1 per 375ml, which would be about 10 tablets for the whole gallon.
Thanks for helping me out yet again,
Dolan
I've posted here a couple of times with my newbie questions and have received a great amount of help. I'm here with a few more.
I just started a 1 gallon batch of Irish Stout. For the first three days I had some tubing stretched from my cork stopper into a half-full glass of water to deal with any "blowback". After day three, I went to replace the tubing with an airlock to continue fermentation - only to notice that I'm missing the center part of my three-piece airlock. My question is, should I buy a new airlock ASAP, or can I just leave the tubing in the water and have it function in the same way? (As far as I can tell they serve the same purpose)
Now for my next questions. During my last batch of brew I had quite a few problems, one of them was carbonation. I had tried mixing in some sugar and hot water after moving it from the primary fermenter to some bottles but it never seemed to carbonate. I recently bought some brewing carbonation tablets meant to be used in bottling, but unfortunately all of my bottles were broken in a recent move. (Although I realize now I should have boiled and mixed the sugar before adding it, which may have been the problem)
I was planning to use a 1 gallon glass carboy to store the brew instead of buying more bottles, is it alright for me to carbonate my brew in the carboy, acting as one giant bottle? If so, would you recommend I still give the carbonation tablets a go, or use the sucrose method? If you think I should give the tablets a try, how many should I use? The bag says 1 per 375ml, which would be about 10 tablets for the whole gallon.
Thanks for helping me out yet again,
Dolan