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You are fine. The anecdotal results you have posted match my own experience in well over 20 brews. Notty works thru ale-temp fermentations very well, flocs pretty hard, and has never taken more than 5 days to finish anything I have brewed (1.045-1.055 range). I followed the conventional...

I wish this more popular on "my side of the pond" 🙁

That's why I was wondering the "over/under" whether capturing CO2 during a normal fermentation, ideally under pressure of a wanted recipe would obviate the need for an independent sugar-wash-to-CO2 fermentation with no end product beyond the CO2 produced would be more "economical" to a home brewer.

Okay, so given that I have 2 spare corny kegs beyond the 4 needed to fill my keezer.... I could potentially use one (or both) keg(s) to house CO2 generated from a sugar-wash/2-row wort + DAP/nutrients mix. Since a normal fermentation can get to 30+ PSI for many recipes that offer spunding at...

It sounds like this method may prove more economical in your neck of the woods, while (for now at least) it's just an intellectual/satisfy-my-curiosity type of factor where I'm at.

Thanks @DuncB! It's Saturday and I didn't have the energy to look up that specific link. It's golden tho. :)

Another, more recent thread which linked me here thankfully has opened my eyes to another option for experimentation... Ironically, I am well stocked in CO2 supply: I have (2) 10lb CO2 tanks and a 20lb I offered to "dispose of" when a convenience store building was due to be demolished... the...

I'm curious as to the ongoing costs to make this type of scheme viable. With economies of scale in the industrial market, a 10lb tank of CO2 for exchange here in central Iowa is around $29. This is at the beverage CO2 supplier, could be different if utilizing a welding gas supplier like...

Another thread here (again with @doug293cz supplying good math/science) gave a rough calculation of roughly 400 to 440L of CO2 generated by a single mid-gravity 5 gal batch. The gist of the calculations were to determine if you could fully purge an empty serving keg, containing regular air...

I'm with the other fine respondents: grain mill gap/grain milling fineness. Since it wasn't mentioned in the OP it was the first thing I thought of as well. Mash temp is the second variable I would focus on. 149F/65C for better (more) fermentable sugars all the way up to 155F/68C.

Your idea is sound. Definitely scale your batch sizes to account for the lower volume of a used corny. There are 6.1/23L corny kegs out there new, which allows pretty much a full 5gal beer + headspace + trub. They run in the $120 range, so not as inexpensive, but something to think about...

Good enuf for me. Enjoy your time away!

Thanks! My kettle still resides on a wheeled cart floating around in the kitchen, but so far it's stayed out of the way!

Space is tight in the townhouse. I was “blessed” with free use of a slightly used coat closet. A sack of Pilsner, and a sack of 2row pale reside in 4 pails with gamma lids. A 5th bucket had 10lb of Vienna and 10lb of Munich for the fall. That is the extent of my base malts. The various...

Just got all caught up... all I can say is WOW!

If ya don't mind me asking, which Foodsaver model has been working for you?

While I was responding to the OP, I getcha 😁

Thanks to all for the things to avoid!!! My fail is forgetting to close the ball valve all the way on my cooler mash tun, and the kettle (anvil 6.5). (I usually leave them 50% open after cleaning/rinsing) Prolly done it a dozen times thru 20 batches. I catch it fast enuf, but the repetition...

At the default 1.25 qt/lb thickness, you can mash 25lb of grain in a 10 gal cooler (9.8gal)… This assumes batch sparging, meaning you can easily do big beers with this cooler with just a little extra effort compared to a full volume mash.

Water additions need not be overly complicated. If you already have a gram scale and some spoons you are halfway there. I settled on six brewing mineral additions, half of which I could find in my local supermarket: Three I did need to source online, two have already been mentioned 1. gypsum...