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Its now been over 6 weeks since this was bottled. I've had a number of testers after week 2 and it wasn't impressive. Was actually disappointing (perhaps unsuprisingly), and I considered dumping it a few times. But a mate and I tried a few yesterday and today, and it's now a winner! Not heavily...

Sulphate is SO4, and yes, chloride is Cl.

My homebrew shop did a comparison of the Coopers Pale Ale malt vs a Maris Otter in a SMaSH and they and those that tasted it couldn't tell the difference. And at $47.50 for a 25kg sack, bloody good value too.

Thanks Mark. I'm targeting a post dilution gravity of 1.041, so before diluting will only be around 1.054, so not too big. Will boil up the water tonight and chillit down.

Brew day tomorrow and I'm making a simple session pale ale. I want to make a bigger batch than normal (28 or 30L), but my kettle (T500 boiler) only has a capacity of 25L. Using Brewers Friend recipe builder, if I use the upper volume to calculate ingredients, can I use less water in the...

I got 2 Woolworths Lager cans last week to try and I "brewed" them up on Sunday. I used both cans but added 250g DIY Crystal Malt and 250g of Rolled Oats. For the adjunct grains I put them in a BIAB and soaked them at 65ºC for 30 minutes, then added the cans to this wort and topped up to 23L...

Have not had anything to do with them personally, but everything I have heard about Distillex has been positive.

Given how good they taste I don't think we'll get to find out! I need to remember to keep a bottle or two for a while.

Tried one this arvo and still a little while away. Only a tiny hiss on opening, but it tastes even better than when I bottled. Thankfully the BO smell I got then has gone...

Can't this be discussed in a private message?

No DIY malt in this beer - 5kg Coopers Pale malt, 0.75kg rolled oats, 0.75 raw wheat (feed). I wasn't really aiming for a clear beer with this style, but was hoping for a more orange colour. In hindsight I likely rushed it a bit, but I was fearful of oxidisation. It was only 4 days from...

Bottled this last night with argon bubbling in the bottling bucket and the bottles purged after filling before capping. I had 2 argon bottles so I could turn one off easily when purging bottles. It all went pretty smoothly once I was set up. I also filled a couple other bottle types to test a...

Sounds like the easiest way to go might be to get some PET bottles and do the squeeze after filling.

Mark, what about ascorbic acid? I've read that it can help also, but I haven't seen anything on dosing (when and how much) and what it actually does.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/limiting-oxidation-effect-of-purging-headspace-o2-in-a-bottle-conditioned-ipa.653784/

The purging of the bottle is more about the head space of the bottle. Bubble the inert gas in and the head space will be filled with froth/bubbles that contain no air. Purging of the bucket will be a continuous bubbling to keep pushing the air out. Shouldn't need more than a litre or 2 a minute...

No, but that sounds intriguing. Is that basically having pressure in the "bucket", then sucking/venting the air out of the bottle which is replaced by the beer? No purging of the bottles required?

Thanks Mark. Yeah, I'm practicing TIG welding (mostly stainless), so I make sure I've always got plenty of pure Ar on hand.

I've got a NEIPA to bottle hopefully this weekend, but I don't have any CO2 to purge bottling bucket and bottles. Plenty of argon though. Can I use that instead?

I ended up visiting a homebrew shop today that I only just found out about in Somerset who stock grains. Picked up a 25kg bag of Coopers Pale Malt (half the price of Maris Otter!) that I'll use as my base and use my home malted grains to make specialty malts. I could see myself having to have a...