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interesting. so how do you get the cacao nibs out? or do you just rack into bottle bucket after the 7 days and leave the nibs with the gunk from the primary bucket. iv been trying to give my ale beers 3 weeks in primary before bottling. but it sounds like you just do 2 weeks? rite?

hey i have recently bottled my 2nd batch of beer , but unfortunatly it has a slight metal taste to it. iv been reading all the other posts about what causes it and iv narrowed it down to a couple things, but still need some clarification. i have an aluminum pot but it has been boiled atleast 10...

i cheched out the website those falvour look awesome! i love experimenting, hopefully the shippins isnt too bad. so how do you add it? im a newbie so im making pre hopped extract beers, basically its a can of wort extract you add it to boiling water with DME. when is the best to add it?

iv been interested in adding chocolate to my beer ever since iv heard of it being done. but im still unsure of how ppl are doing it, so what is the best way to infuse chocolate in beer? Can i just add powdered dark chocolate at bottling time when im carbonating?

im doing an update about my latest real ale beer i brewed. i added 3 tsps of betonite for 6 gal batch. and everyday i checked on my brew i waited for it to begin over flowing with foam like my last real ale, but it never happened! i had my pail hooked up to a blow off hose but didnt really need...

hey there, so Iv successfully brewed my first pre hopped extract ale beer and they turned out better than expected! my roomates also agreed. However this batch fermented at high temperatures around 80F. So this batch I have going now i put in the basement so it should be around 65-70F, im hoping...

okay i didnt know that and maybe that why the berry btach is already clear. i do know that bentonite is negativly charged , so some additives are negative some positive and some netural. so somebody here has got too have tried bentonite in beer... i doubt im the first to stumble upon such an...

so regarding Bentonite, I recently used some in my 6 gallon batch of Welchs frozen grape concentrate and also in a 1 gallon minute maid berry concentrate. I couldnt believe the difference it made in adding it into these two batches. these batches have been going for almost 2 weeks and the berry...

yea you all make good points! its great to have the help otherwise this would be alot more frustrating, thanks to these forums and the general internet info, my wine and beer making has taken off! I actually just made a bottling bucket today, and it worked out alot better than I anticipated...

yea I hear yea , I am listening to you all for sure, and appreciate the feedback. Now that you have explained why to leave it sitting for in primary for longer , it makes sense to me... I didnt realize the yeast can actually "clean up" and take care of the mess they make from the high...

also you dont want to damage the yeast with hot water rite? since they are still needed for carbonating. or maybe as you said the 23 liters of beer should cool it down quick enough that it wont hurt anything. I just wont throw the water in there when its still boiling hot!

yea a little late for this batch now haha. Thats okay its my first batch the next one I can try and keep it cooler. So your saying for most ales keep them 10 degrees cooler than 72F ? Iv noticed alot of different answers on fermenting ale temperatures. But the instructions that came with...

okay and then what is the best way to bottle it now. I have dextrose for priming it and going to put them in cleaned glass beer bottles. iv seen people mix the sugar into the bottling bucket and fill from there, or put the sugar into each bottle and then fill them up. I don't have a bottle...

OKAY so i went ahead and made it ! HURRAY! okay so it didnt go as smoothly as I had in mind; i started off by putting the coopers real ale metal can in my boiling pot of water to warm it up into a liquid, and then realized the label with its glue is in there melting in the water... DAMN, so i...

if my beer has .8390kg of sugar in it, is there a way to know how much potential alcohol this beer will be, like even roughly would be good. I just want to make sure I have enough sugar in my recipe, which was posted a couple posts before this one. Also My hydrometer is not working properly, i...

okay I have written out my recipe and it goes as follows ill be using 2 liters boiling water, that is following the instructions that came with the can. 3.75 pound coopers real ale (malted barley and hops in the can) 1.1 pound spray malt medium (.4989kg) 12 oz dextrose sugar (.8390kg)...

sorry guys I should have clarified to exactly what I have, I appreciate all the feedback as well, at first it was looking like no one was going to reply haha. Okay so this coopers Can is a real ale Hopped malt concentrate. and I need to add 1kg of sugar to it, so i bought 2kg of dextrose and...

What do you mean make sure the dextrose is for the beer and not bottling ? I bought one 2kg bag of dextrose, and I was planning on using it for the fermentation and afterwords for the carbonation... isnt that what people do? or are you saying there are 2 different types of dextrose for...

yea well the directions are very vague at best, and I guess there just general guidelines. I think the companies expect you to go out and learn the finer details on your own, which is fine. really , you have to take the pot off the stove when adding the sugar? can it actually burn your pot?

its a coopers real ale in a can. that's why I'm confused as to how to brew and boil this stuff. all the videos I see they don't open a pre made beer in a can. they have fresher ingredients and they put them into the boiling water seperatly. so I didn't know If I can still follow their directions.