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  1. ciderlover

    AHB on Tapatalk

    I've just done an exhaustive search in Tapatalk and AHB no longer comes up. Perhaps it has been pulled :( It's a pity because I'm a member of another 7 forums and I hate using the website versions on my iPhone. aaaaaaaand I just read it was pulled months ago... nothing to see here, please move...
  2. ciderlover

    Beer is going flat

    Some good tips there, thanks fellas. I might try dropping a Coopers carbonation drop in a few and see what happens. Manticle, these are purpose made PET brown brew bottles which I sterilised before using, including the plastic caps.
  3. ciderlover

    Beer is going flat

    Ok thanks fellas, so I've learnt a couple of things tonite: 1) PET bottles are not good for long term storage 2) Light coloured beers don't age well I'll remember all that when I start brewing again in Spring. From all the Coopers extracts I brewed last year, I have to say their European Lager...
  4. ciderlover

    Beer is going flat

    LOL, yeah I made about 66 litres of the stuff, and I'm only a weekend drinker. Also my expensive Coopers Sparkling Ale suffered the same fate, it's just as flat and tastes like crap.
  5. ciderlover

    Beer is going flat

    Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that most of the bottles have around 25% carbonation when opened, they're like really flat coke and taste like shit.
  6. ciderlover

    Beer is going flat

    I just use the off the shelf 740ml PET bottles from BigW. I'll put some glass bottled brews in the fridge to try one tomorrow at lunch and I'll see how they are. Thanks fellas, but if there's one thing I hate, it's pouring beer down the sink :(
  7. ciderlover

    Beer is going flat

    Ah crap, that's over 100 litres of beer [emoji31]
  8. ciderlover

    Beer is going flat

    Yeah 60% of my brews were in Pet bottles.
  9. ciderlover

    Beer is going flat

    Hey fellas, Been drinking my brews from last winter, but I'm continually disappointed with the quality of the drink, in that they seem to have very little carbonation. My Coopers Mexican Cerveza has turned dark and gone totally flat. Here's my brew statistics for this particular batch: Coopers...
  10. ciderlover

    First Raw Apple Cider

    Oh right, I thought SG was Specific Gravity, being a reading you take at any time between OG & FG. Yeah I think adding more yeast & nutrient may in fact turn this into something more potent, I might as well add some sugar for the yeast to eat and put it down to a learning experience.
  11. ciderlover

    First Raw Apple Cider

    Well, after tasting it this morning I decided there was no way this was drinkable, I swear the alcohol content was double what it was before and my SG reading confirm it's sitting at around 14% abv. So I've racked it into a new demijohn and sprinkled a little more yeast & nutrient into it. The...
  12. ciderlover

    First Raw Apple Cider

    G'day gents, just a quick update on this raw apple cider experiment. I racked it into another FV 10 days ago using Rob's method, and it has been sitting there not doing much at all, there's definitely no yeast action happening so I'm wondering... Should I go to bottles or rack again, but this...
  13. ciderlover

    First Raw Apple Cider

    Thanks for the tips gents. Tomorrow I bottle one of my other finished beers, so I'll have a free FV into which, I'll rack this cider using Rob's method. Cheers, Pete
  14. ciderlover

    First Raw Apple Cider

    Rob, do you think that filtering that floating garbage during racking would cause accelerated oxidation due to increased exposure to air? I'm really not keen on that stuff floating around in my bottles. Lesson learned from this first experience with using raw apples: Strain out the sludge and...
  15. ciderlover

    First Raw Apple Cider

    G'day gents, So it looks like the bubbling in my cider has slowed down somewhat in over the last 8 days, my SG reading right now is actually 0.980 which sounds like it might be time to bottle. However, is it wiser to just strain the floaty bits (see picture below) and rack into a proper FV with...
  16. ciderlover

    Cider Sediment Question

    Yeah, I might stick with glass bottles instead.
  17. ciderlover

    Home Brew Bug Bites Hard

    The lid seals well but isn't airtight so while the cider is still producing CO2 (which it is still doing quite actively) and there's positive pressure I'm okay with oxidation, however I reckon next week when I have a spare FV, I'll look at racking into an airtight vat with an airlock. Here's...
  18. ciderlover

    Home Brew Bug Bites Hard

    Yes it would certainly look that way Burt. No I was actually in the middle of bottling when I took the photo, just waiting for the last of my bottles to dry out. That would have indeed been a rocket fuel version of Coopers Euro Lager hahaha!
  19. ciderlover

    Cider Sediment Question

    The problem with this top layer of sediment is that it appeared only hours after bottling and only on my PET bottles, the glass bottles were clear at the top with sediment only at the bottom. Very peculiar because sediment would normally sink to the bottom...
  20. ciderlover

    Raw Sugar okay?

    Thank you for the wisdom gents. The most important thing I've learn't since beginning this journey is to sanitise, sanitise SANITISE!
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