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I wouldn’t, I don’t think they’re rated for pressure. Get some 2l fizzy water/lemonade bottles and prime in those instead.

+1 to fizzy pop bottles. Ginger beer ones are good because they are brown. You need to be careful of any brew in clear bottles being exposed to the light.

I've only ever used bottles that are meant for beer, I wouldn't try it especially if you add too much priming sugar.

Great thanks all. Better start drinking fizzy stuff!

It's Turbocider time!

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Yay!

Where can I find a 35-40 litre pot for cooking the mash? Anyone?

I'm in N16 so ideally anywhere near Tottenham, Stoke Newington, Hackney, Finsbury, etc etc.

I just don't fancy spending £56 + p&p online when I honestly only need a single very simply, very large pan.

Sorry......

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Local Indian or Chinese megamart is probably your best bet for big, cheap stockpots.

Found a pot with approx 37-38L capacity at the "LOSO Seafood... something...." shop, just three doors north of Dalston Kingsland station.

£70 down to £60, negotiated to £45 cash (didn't have to push too hard or anything, and the guy tossed in a free ladle).

Was quite interesting to cycle home with it in my hand!

So, secondary fermentation.

Mix the beer with honey, then in plastic fizzy water bottles, wait two weeks then bottle into glass. Sound right?

If you just want fizzy beer in a bottle then rack the beer out of the FV into another FV that has a tap with a bottling wand attached. Add 1/2 tsp of sugar to each bottle, bottle and cap.

You can batch prime with honey and then bottle if you want. But every transfer will oxidise the beer.

Don't need to put it in plastic, the beer bottles with take the pressure (most of the time).

Sweet.

Last night's mash in the huge new pot. Golden promise, crystal malt and flaked oats. Amarillo hops in the boil, Nelson is waiting for the dry hop.

Had a bit of trouble cooling it! But all sorted now and there's 28L gurgling happily in the fermenter in the basement.

Ta

Cheap fruit press? I just grabbed one, but they only had 6l at same price as 12l or 18l so I'm off to visit other lidl' s locally incase they have the bigger sizes

https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/summer-kitchen/guede-mechanical-fruit-press/p31955

Edit now got an 18l brute!

Success! Much to my wife’s disappointment, I could get into this lark

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Lockdown has given me time (no Audax) to get back into brewing.

So far I've got a Porter (Kernel export india recipe) bottled, a Belgian style quad in the FV and planning a Brown Ale next.

I bought one of the Klarstien Brauheld kettles last year but hadn't used it much, it's basically a poor mans Grainfather, but it's a great bit of kit and has made my brews much more consistent, i used to use a cool box, tea urn and no chill technique, which had mixed results at times.

I also picked one of these up. Finally going to do something with my grapes this year.

Now - anyone done sparkling elderflower? Am about to do a batch later and there are sooooo many recipes. My guess is that means it doesn't matter too much but if anyone has a recommended one that would be ace.

Mashing in a lemongrass and ginger pale !
It's a re-working of a recipe I brewed a few years ago. I'm adding oats to give it more body and using a different lemongrass and ginger tea this time.

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Good luck with it! I'd be very keen to hear how it turns out. How was it on previous batches? Can you explain if it's fresh/dried/essence of lemongrass and ginger, and when/how you add them?

The rig-envy is real, also.

It worked well last time, the tea gets added at the end of the boil turn the heat off add the tea give it a stir then chill straight away ! You don't want the tannins from the tea.I add 60g at the end of the boil and another 60g at the dry Hopping stage. Leave for 5 days or so then bottle . Those amounts are for roughly a 65 litre boil.

Last brew turned out quite well, very pleasing taste but still not as crisp and refreshing as we'd ultimately like.

Completed another mash today. Nailed all the temperature control but went slightly overboard with volume - there's at least 31L sitting in our 33L fermenter bucket and there's such little headroom! (Was aiming for 28L.) Should net a whopping 26L upon bottling, the most we've ever done. Gonna triple dry hop this one for epic punch, 100g amarillo, 100g azacca and 100g simcoe.

Our wort still takes ages to cool as we just stick the pan in a bucket of cool water, and change a few times. I need to make a wort chiller - where in North London can I source a length of copper water pipe? And how can I bend it into a coil? I guess I can Google that tbh.

Cooking a beercan chicken on a homebrew ! Hoping the lemon and ginger pale will complement the peri-peri and lemon juice rub !

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Cooking thread>>>>>>>>>>

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