Sugar cubes

forcetwelve · Post by **forcetwelve** » Wednesday May 16, 2007 4:30 pm

for sure. im sold. will get one on the weekend...

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wednesday May 16, 2007 4:41 pm

I should run a HB shop.

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Wednesday May 16, 2007 9:51 pm

Chris wrote:I should run a HB shop.

You'd drink the profits

Regarding Racking photos........I have taken photos and the rechargeable battery packed it in upon download. It is recharging now.

I bulk primed and bottled a Cascade Choc Mahog with Morgans Liquid dark malt and Cascade hops (Dry hopped at rack).

Tasted lovely.

Will get the photo's on tomorrow.

Good to see the LCPA is going well forcetwelve.

Cheers

Boonie

forcetwelve · Post by **forcetwelve** » Thursday May 17, 2007 2:01 pm

ah... i was going to try a chocolate mah. next boonie. seems like it would be a nice winter beer.

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Thursday May 17, 2007 9:16 pm

Sterilise the keg, inside and outside the hose(beer touches the outside too) and the plastic tube off the little bottler and rinse off solution.

Start to rack and add the preboiled Dex and water (180g dex 500g water or less)

Once done stir with big spoon, lift Racked beer up, rinse out hose, attach pre sterilised Little bottler and you can now take the beer to the bottles.

KEG · Post by **KEG** » Thursday May 17, 2007 9:29 pm

fixed the image boonie

edit: so did boonie

ps: tooheys new, fosters, VB, vomit

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Thursday May 17, 2007 9:32 pm

Thanks Keg.

Not too concerned with the bottles, bought 'em off Ebay

It was the VB styles bottles last night, so I do not have to move my capper.

I am trying to get the other pictures on, but the laptop is going one mile an hour at the moment

Cheers

Boonie

Rysa · Post by **Rysa** » Thursday May 17, 2007 9:36 pm

Hate that when they just won't work!!

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Thursday May 17, 2007 9:39 pm

I know Rysa, I was swearing at the thing

Nice edit Keg

I got there eventually, dunno why it didn't work first go

I didn't do anything different as far as I know

Hope this helps forcetwelve

Cheers Fellas

Boonie

Rysa · Post by **Rysa** » Thursday May 17, 2007 9:43 pm

Same thing happened to me the other day, it seemed to be adding spaces where it shouldn't have.
Good pics!!

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Thursday May 17, 2007 9:48 pm

Thanks Rysa, they were the best of about 15.

I think that pictures on here are worth a thousand words (Heard that somewhere before

) Sometimes it is hard to describe what you are doing.

I am glad someone put me onto Photobucket which is the link for the photo's.

I would not have had a clue otherwise, actually, by that attempt, I still dont

Cheers

Boonie

Rysa · Post by **Rysa** » Thursday May 17, 2007 9:59 pm

Boonie wrote:I am glad someone put me onto Photobucket which is the link for the photo's.

I would not have had a clue otherwise, actually, by that attempt, I still dont

Cheers

Boonie

Same here, rwh put me onto it and i've used it a few times after fiddling around for a bit

wildschwein · Post by **wildschwein** » Saturday May 19, 2007 12:06 pm

forcetwelve wrote:guys - is there a way of bulk priming in the primary ferm.?

i havnt got a secondary as yet...

I'm in the same boat and started bulk priming in the primary on my last batch and have a method that seems to work pretty well.

I usually have to move my fermenter to bottle up, so some disburbance of the sediment layer happens anyway, but it is not excessive. Move the fermenter to the kitchen bench, or wherever you bottle, For a 23 litre batch boil up 180g of dextrose or 230g of light malt extract with an equal amount of water (you can use whatever suits you: sugar, honey etc) and allow it to cool for a few minutes.

Place the pot/pan of boiled sugar by your fermenter. Open the lid of the fermenter and place a sterilised plastic spoon just below the surface of the liquid and stir to create a gentle swirling effect. If you have really long spoon be careful not to go down too far as you'll stir up the yeast cake too much. Just submerging the scoop part of the spoon seems to be enough. Once you have a good gentle swirling effect slowly pour in the bolied priming sugar with one hand and mix in while your spoon hand is still gently swirling the beer.

Put the lid back on the fermenter and wait 30 minutes before bottling to allow the yeast to settle back down again. I usually refill the airlock to stop any nasties getting in the brew. If you use dex or sugar you'll probably notice some airlock activity again, but thats good. You can be sorting out your bottles in the 30 minute period. Empty the airlock before bottling so the air can pull through.

I did this for my last batch and every bottle I've tested seems to be pretty consistently carbonanted: no gushers, bombs or flat ones yet. I hope this method helps.