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I saw Dogger Dan's recipe posted recently and decided to give it a go.

After just over a month from start, I'm already running out. This beer is a prize winner. In fact I'm now preferring this beer to even the commercial beers I usually buy, including the foreign ones.

The only little drawback was ...

The best thing I got was a couple of plastic drums(foodgrade) for fermenting and racking. They're widely available.

I installed a tap near the bottom. Transfer is simply connecting a tube from the higher drum to the second one. No more heavy glass kegs and misery of siphoning. Disadvantage is that ...

Thanks Beer.piggy and Frenzie.

I didn't want to learn that the CO2 is actually comes from the yeasties' urine.

Gives new meaning to "getting pissed", pardon the language but couldn't resist.

Now I wonder if the yeasties also get plastered. What a life!!

Regards

Guy Poppe

Thanks for all for the information. I should have put a ? atfter "Myth" in the heading.

What intrigued me was the concept of yeast needing oxygen to redproduce, yet except when pitching, we seem to take all measures to avoid exposing the yeast. Does it not run out of oxygen? Where does it get ...

I'm a relative novice at beer making but religiously read this forum and others to get information.

One of the subjects that perplexes me is oxidation.

So far, I gathered the following principles:

1. No need to worry about oxygen when the wort is still hot.

2. Get the wort cool quickly to avoid ...

Thank you all kindly for your advice, which, of course, I will follow. The hops are in a small cheese cloth sack. Since I'm using a white plastic fermenter, I can't see if they're floating or not.

Thanks again

Guy

Yesterday I decided to make Dogger Dan's "killer" beer. However I forgot to take the hops out of the fermenter.

Should I remove them now or wait until I rack in a week or so?

I hate the chance of infection.

Regards

Guy

Instead of switching lights on and off, couldn't you just hardwire a thermstat which would switch the light on and off as needed?

Just a thought

Guy

Forgaot an ancilliary question. Should I bulk prime with the usual amount of dexrose? Won't that increase the alcohol content? (Well maybe that's good)

Regards

Guy

Thanks to all for your advice. I'll give it shot (A Cheney quote).

Got to find a way to get Dogger Dan to let me try one of his beers. After all he's only a couple hours from me. Doesn't everyone relish the chance to sit and chat with an old lawyer? Sure!!! Maybe I'll also take a tour to Aussieland ...

Some of your readers may recall my ending up with a stack of flat beer as a result of using plastic water bottles which didn't hold the pressure.

I am thinking of pouring the beer back in a carboy and bulk re-priming the beer.

Do you helpful folks think it would work? I hate to waste beer to the ...

I had the same problem. It turned out that the pet bottles could not hold the pressure. I had used plastic water bottles. Pop bottles work fine,

Regards Guy