Recent content by Benen

My quick solution was to blast CO2 into the bottle and then very quickly tip it and attach it. Definitely not 100% O2 free but good enough I think. I opened the valve very slowly to keep turbulence down. Perhaps also pressurising to the same psi as the fermenter before opening the valve would be...

No I purchased it from kegland, I went hunting for a valve to fit a PET thread and this was it. Already on the market when I thought of it.

If I was affiliated wouldn't I mention where to buy it? Are you affiliated?

Worked a treat. Close the valve, unscrew PET bottle, add hops to bottle and purge with CO2 from a Sodastream. Quickly tipped it upside down and screwed it in and then opened the valve again. Needed a few hits to the side of the bottle to get them to all drop in and it was done.

Absolutely. I'll find some parts this week.

Has anyone tried putting a tee piece on one of the lid threads? Put a valve on the top and a PET bottle to that full of hops. Just dump the hops through the valve when time to dry hop and you still have a beer post on the tee piece for transfer. I haven't tried yet but will be trying next time I...

Do you think that part of it is that you're starting to like dry cider? My mates have said the same for their cider though. The longer you can stand to leave it the better they say it is.

Can't wait to try a GB. Seen a few good looking recipes. Open South Africa's first home brew shop!

I'm brand new to brewing and have 2 batches going at the moment. A 3gal batch of apple with 1118 and a 1gal carboy of apple and pear and a few other ingredients. The big batch took about 50 hours to kick off gas from the airlock but the small batch took only overnight. Hopefully I've made the...