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If used for Sanitation, best practice to sanitize a 23L fermenter, use 1-2 gallons or fill and add accessories inside? How does it compare with Star San? What quantity per liter or gallon for sanitation vs dechlorinization?

Just stumbled across this post. I see it’s from 2016. So what ever came about of this Stout? Was it bottled or kegged? Is it still bottled four years later? 😉 Just wondering how it turned out.

So I’m trying to wrap my head around all this and I’m a bit confused. Doesn’t take much 😜. So I have a pack of the Spagnols Potasium Metabisulphite. Acquired this in a wine equipment kit I bought. So is this used to rid your water of chlorine/chloramine or is it used for a no-rinse...

Many may not like Cooper’s but I have had many a success. Now I just use it as a general guideline recipe to start with. This is a Cooper’s Real Ale, 6.13% ABV. This brew is much like a Rickard’s Red. Tastes so yummy in a frosty mug!

Day 12 (since this was yesterday I guess it’s technically day 11 😉) Outdated Cooper’s IPA experiment. The story so far. I took my first FG reading 1012. So I made a hop tea to add to a secondary. 17 grams of whole dried hops. I ended up with more tea than expected. I guess that...

So I’m thinking of doing a secondary with the batch and adding more hops. I’m trying to decide between steeping the hops to a tea with the remainder of my hops or just adding them in teabags like I did in primary. Pros & cons of either method? How long in secondary for either method. Or should I...

Day 6 update on brew from an older extract. Past couple days only had a couple blurps in the airlock (I know not the be-all-end-all). Krausen has almost completely fallen and can start to see the brew below. Bubbles still forming and popping in the remaining krausen.

“his” is me LOL 😉 And I did get what you were referring to. (Off Topic) I’m still on the fence taste wise Bottles vs Cans. Maybe my taste buds are not that sophisticated lol. I’ve reverted to, when buying, basic commercial beers in cans.

Ive heard arguments that finished canned beer not as good as glass bottled is just a myth as the caps on the bottles can slowly let air in when stored long term and also let light in, where as cans are air tight and don’t let light through. The following pics from Homebrew Beer Magazine.

I’ve heard of brews finishing within a couple of days but I’ve seen similar posts that suggest to wait at least one week before checking Gravity then recheck 48hrs later.

Well I was near the fermenter earlier today and happened to glance at it just as it went BLURP, but hasn’t repeated, so my initial thoughts that it is fermenting very slowly seems to be the case. Feeling hopeful On another note, it was tasting day for for my Cooper’s Real Ale 6.13% ABV. Only 2...

I agree it is old and I have brewed drinkable, although a bit malty for my preference, but thinking combining with a second fresh can would help flavor wise. I’ve read on other posts that boiling for 15 min will remove both otherwise letting sit out in the sun for 48hrs. Don’t have the patients...

Yes the yeast was fresh. I just finished a brew of Coopers Real Ale successfuly and was very active in the airlock unlike the absence of activity in the airlock in this new batch. Still not action in the airlock today, but I think the pressure has started to build enough to move the water in the...

Question for the masses, sorry if this is long winded. I've been brewing for a while with extract kits Like the cans of Coopers. Although life got in the way and I took an involuntary break from brewing. So now I have been left with a few cans past their expiration date. I have mostly had really...