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    bottle filler

    Im starting to bottle in 330ml and when i do a bigger batch it takes so long to fill them all individually. Does anyone know where i could find a second hand bottle filler for 330ml or even some options? cheers Hammo
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    Adding honey into the fermenter

    thanks barls ill give it a go. any idea on how much for a 750ml longneck and also does this mean drop out the late addition in the fermenter cheers
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    Adding honey into the fermenter

    just a beer with stong honey characterisitics
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    Adding honey into the fermenter

    Instead of dry hopping with my standard im thinking of adding a good serving of fresh honey into one of my fermenters. its a low ibu all grain beer and yeast is US05. im thinking of adding it once the gravity has dropped to 1.010 when i usually dry hop my others Any thoughts or suggestions...
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    carbination

    ok i bottled another batch of beer 10 days ago and instead of using sugar carbonation drops i used normal white sugar with one of the measuring cups you buy from the home brew shop which has 330ml. 750ml and i think 500ml on it as a 3 cup type plastic holder. I used the 330ml flat to the top no...
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    carbination

    any fast ways of bulk priming with white sugar? or any suggestions?
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    carbination

    thanks for the heads up! I was thinking along the same lines re over carbonated with drops cheers
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    carbination

    Ive just recently upped my volume with my all grain ales and on 330ml bottles use the coopers sugar drops for bottle conditioning. Since ive upped the volume gradually im noticing more and more beers toffee over so to speak or like someone has shaken the beer when i open them. The flavor is...
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    Asahi beer

    Thinking of trying to put down a beer like Asahi? does anyone have any tips or clone? cheers Hammo
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    Forced Carbonation

    a american pale ale. easy to drink (ibu's 23) and not too out there so to speak. personally though i love a 40 - 50 ibu's in a beer
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    Forced Carbonation

    my mate owns a pub and asked for new years eve party to put some of my home brew on tap for our friends in the function room. ive always bottled my beer but was wondering whats needed in order to put my home brew out of fermentors and into a sanke keg and force carbonate? is it possible to this...
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    Gravity Readings And %

    how do you work out your % mate?
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    Gravity Readings And %

    interesting! that was something i was looking for. Can you remember where you saw it? Im looking for a nice secondary formula to run by the original to get a bit more accurate with %. Other reason i wonder is because i picked up the latest version of Beer and brewer mag (spring edition) today...
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    Gravity Readings And %

    ok so bear with me here but the way ive been working out my alcohol percentage is taking my reading of pre boil and OG with a calibrated refractometer. usually the reading on the same recipe is around 1.045 to 1.046 for my OG'S. all my final readings are at 1.010 with the chart ive got with...
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    Sparging Temps

    The mash tun is insulated and generally holds for a whole hour with no drop through the mash. I drain out the mash over the period of a hour into the 30 litre fermenters cos my system runs off two vessels. Then once its finished I add sparge at 76 and circulate till clear and run though a full...
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