2018 Stout/porter brewing

[SnailAle]

I've got 330 stubbies, 740 PET and some 750 coopers sparkling long necks. Might go half a drop in the 330, 1 in the PET and 1 1/2 in coopers bottles and see how that turns out.

Once I move into my new house, setup the shed and sell our current place I'll look at buying more more gear to bulk prime, have secondaries, get a kegerator etc. At the moment though while money is so tight I'm going to stick with what I have.

Thanks for all the help everyone, appreciate it [emoji106]

 

[Rocker1986]

Secondaries aren't really needed for conditioning but bulk priming is a lot easier with a second fermenter.

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

I've got 330 stubbies, 740 PET and some 750 coopers sparkling long necks. Might go half a drop in the 330, 1 in the PET and 1 1/2 in coopers bottles and see how that turns out.

Once I move into my new house, setup the shed and sell our current place I'll look at buying more more gear to bulk prime, have secondaries, get a kegerator etc. At the moment though while money is so tight I'm going to stick with what I have.

Thanks for all the help everyone, appreciate it [emoji106]

What Rocker said.

Plus, Bunnings has a fermenter that will do the job for approx $20-25. It'll save your money on carb drops too.

Another thing with bulk priming is that if you have mixed bottle sizes (I've done one batch with 500ml, 568ml little creatures, 640ml craft tallies, 750ml regular tallies and 800ml VB tallies), you don't need to recalculate for each bottle, as you're priming the entire batch.

Big advice I can give though - make sure the fermenter is fully sterile and the tubing is sterile. Do not (I had my brother do this) shake up the fermenter to get the sugar mixed in, you'll oxidise it. Just use plastic clear tubing that's long enough to gravity feed and coil around the 2nd fermenter a couple of times on the inside to induce "gentle swirling action" that mixes, without adding extra unnecessary oxidisation.

 

[Rocker1986]

That Bunnings 'fermenter' is exactly what I used for bulk priming when I was bottling. It did the job well and I still have it although it doesn't get any use at the moment. Mine is the normal white plastic but they seem to only have blue ones now.