I just brewed with what I now realise is a rather old Williams Brewing Kolsch kit. The yeast is Wyeast 2565 Kolsch and the packet has already expanded. I have no idea when it expanded, so I assume it must be months ago and that the yeast has already died/gone dormant. The manufacture date is 07 Jul 2014. I have already ordered a replacement yeast packet which will hopefully arrive towards the beginning the week. I have chilled my wort …
I am in the middle of brewing a Phat Tyre Amber Ale from Northern Brewer. After boiling the water and steeping the grain, I took the pot off and added the liquid 6lbs Munich malt syrup and the dry 1lb Pilsen malt extract, as I am typically instructed to add the malt sugars at the beginning of the boil. Only after this point when I needed to check the hop schedule did I bother to read the instructions, where I …
I bottled my first batch of beer 72 hours ago. I am under the impression that bottled beer should not immediately be placed in the refrigerator, as this would prevent the remaining yeast from carbonating the bottle with the priming sugar. From googling, I seem to be be receiving contradictory information about when the beer can be placed in the fridgerator: after 3 days and up to the full two week conditioning period. (P.S., is a bottle-bomb the result of …
I use an electric burner when I home brew. It doesn't have a ton of excess power but it can get a nice rolling boil going. Occasionally, when I add malt extract to my kettle the temperature drops several degrees below boiling. It sometimes takes 5 or 10 minutes to return to an actual boil. In this case, should I pause my timer, wait for the wort to return to boil and then resume the timer, or should I just …
I've test bottled one 500ml bottle of Ginger Beer with one Coopers priming drop. How long does priming take? If I opened it in a day would it have some pressure/fizz/gas or does it need a week or so? I want to ascertain if one drop was enough as I don't trust the terrible instructions' rough 'heaped teaspoon' amount; seems far too inexact to me!
I'm preparing to bottle a 30 pint batch of Ginger Beer. It started at 1.041 and has finished at a steady 1.008 after 2 weeks or so. I siphoned one bottle's worth earlier into a 500ml flip-top, and added one Coopers priming drop. After about 1 hour the drop had dissolved but I could see it sat in a sugary cloud at the bottom. Will it mix / convert naturally? It's at 18°C right now inside an empty tub incase …