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Hello again! I've now finished my exams, and the beer is ready to bottle it hasn't bubbing for a good few days now, the SG is 1.0046 (OG - 1.0347) and has been steady over 2 days. I tried the beer from the test tube for taking the SG and it tasted like beer! great so far so good. ok...

haha, thanks again to everyone's help, you've been great i'm gonna have a rest saturday then get on with the bottling on sunday. I'll post my procedure on what I intend to do on the day of bottling on saturday for all to advise on. thanks again, Monkey

Just double checking something now. My beer will have been fermenting 14days on tuesday, so may be ready to bottle then (of course i'll check first). If it is ready to bottle then, would it be ok to wait a further 4/5 days and bottle sat or sunday? this is because I have exams and little...

bottles exploded?

Hi thanks Lou and Freyguy, 14days will put me at tuesday night, however I have 4 exams in 4 days wed-sat! so will have to wait till sat to bottle (if not bubbling of course). That bottle filler thing sounds great, however due to lack of funds on this brew i'll keep to my tubing and tap...

I was just thinking about when to know when it's ready to bottle (remember i'm going straight from primary to bottle) There seems to be a small debate on the forums between using hydrometers and just waiting till it stops bubbling. I was thinking about this and logically would the best way...

No worries, i'm not going to bottle until the bubbling has stopped. I'm not following the Coopers instructions (as I've been using advice of this forum and other websites). I just wondered why Coopers would put this on their instructions if it is going to explode their customers bottles...

I read some of that page last night, yeah it's got some great advice, thanks for the link. Unfortunately i'm in the middle of exams, so thought it would be quicker and easier to ask the odd question through the forum. I appologize if questions I have asked are on various how to brew websites...

Hi all, I have a tube for syphoning not sure if its a 'filler tube' but I have a tap to attach also to stop the filling for each bottle. So I should be ok. Not long now, i'm going out check the bubbling later but I guess it'll be thurs ot fri night that I bottle at the earliest. So i'll...

haha good point. I have only given the bottles a brush with washing up water to take off any real stuborn muck and taken the labels off. Before filling them i'll be sanitizing them and rising them (so will sanitize the rack before this). After 7 days of fermenting now the bubbles are less...

Hi again, here is my bottle dryer. It didn't take any hassle making as i have spare tubs and the mesh is from the top of my guinea pig hutch, don't worry she won't escape! thanks again, :rockin: Monkey

Hi, many many thanks to Caplan for suggesting to get gluecose from morrisons, i went today and got myself a packet! wooo! they also have a huge range of bottled ales in morrisons that I spent ages chosing from, very nice. someone suggested going to secondary now, however do you mean...

ah I used brew enhancer instead of sugar for the fermentation, could the same type of enhancer be used for priming aswell? na no home brew shops in swansea... hmm a gap in the market, maybe I should set one up? an update: after 5 days of fermenting it is now bubbling every 7-8 mins...

haha cheers for clarifying, so is corn sugar available in supermarkets in america then? I know a friend of a friend brewing so may borrow 200g of him for this batch. then if the beer tastes nice and i want to continue brewing i'll probably buy a big batch of it off the internet (£6...

I went into town today to look for corn/dex/glucose but found nothing of use. I checked tescos and sainsburys and all there is there is; granulated (pure cane sugar), brown sugar varieties, jam sugar, icing sugar, castor sugar and preserving sugar. I also checked boots chemist, and found...

Thanks again Bill, So this Cane Sugar / dextroxe / gluecose people are taking about is white ? Monkey

ah brilliant we have a bit of a debate about the red cap! sounds like good advice though, i wondered why they would give me one if i didn't need to use it. I have placed it gently back on now. however now plasitc washer/grommet thing on mine, so have just placed it on lightly. good advice, i...

Hello again, thanks for the help. I've filled my second old keg (broken lid) with sanitizer overnight now to clean it ready for using as the sugar adding barrell. will this keg be ok for this (see pic)? I also had a go at syphoning to practice and think i have that sorted now. 4...

Cheers empero and billbrew, I'll take the red cap off now then, if anyone disagrees please add a reply. yes i was going to add sugar directly into the bottles, however i see what you mean. each bottle would taste slightly diff (but that could be interesting!). Any more suggestions...