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the SG is at 1.02, i will see if it can get to 1.01 before i bottle it, im afraid these may explode if i bottle them at 1.02 because of all the sugar i put into them. but i guess if it doesnt go down to 1.01 it might be because i used the same brew enhancer stuff. i will let you all know how it goes...

i bottled the beer, non of it has exploded. I get a nice head on the beer when i pour it, it tastes wicked and its got a decent ABV%. i think it turned out pretty well. i started a new batch of lager the other day, added the extra brew enhancer and then another 1kg of dextrose, figure id make a high...

i opened one yesterday and there was a fizz with the open and the beer had a head, my housemate was begging for a beer with dinner, so i figured he could drink one. he told me it was the best home brew he had tasted so i may take your advice and filly my fridge with beer. As long as its drinkable im...

how long will it take for my bottles to explode do you rekon?
i might remove them from my pantry, just incase they do explode.

you guys will be horrified with this, but back in the day when i was about 14 or 15, my mate and i would sneak bottles from his parents port collection.. anyway, one day we found a bottle that was dated in the late 1800s, went to open it, the cork broke in half, we had a swig each... and tipped the ...

Well i did bottle it against everyones word, if they explode it will be a waste and i will have learnt a lesson, only reason ive done it that way was because the brew shop people told me to bottle it as soon as it stopped bubbling... so by about 9pm last night there wasnt any bubbles coming through,...

yea i know about the extra malt affecting the SG, which is why i figured with an SG of 1020 and 1010 being the finish, that my beer is most likely completed fermenting 99% of whatevers in there.

I think i will have to bottle it today, so i will let you all know how it goes.

ive got some coopers PET bottles that my girlfriends dad passed on to me. Also i have a stack of glass grolsch bottles that another mate gave to me, but they need to be cleaned properly and sterilised. the hydrometer indicates its ready to bottle, but like there might be 1 bubble go through the airl...

Well my beer is still bubbling ever soo slightly, there is a tiny bit of foam on the top of the beer... also might i add that im making beer for the first time, but its a premixed product, coopers mexicana or something, which i added a brew enhancer to and 500mg more of dextrose to increase abv%. Th...

with this wash i got my best neutral yet, came through so clean that i didnt think it needed filtering, filtered it and it smelt almost like nothing. My girlfriend agreed that it was my best yet also, going to store away a few of these bottles :). my wash was Citric acid, Instant dry yeast(80grams),...

well the instant dry yeast definitely works and i can get 12kg for $20 so its pretty cheap and i just got3 and abit litres of 90% alcohol out of a batch.

well i work at a supermarket and the bakers said i could get what ever i want off them for cheap./ 10kg of sugar for $6. But its called super sugar, it has emulsifiers in it and a couple other things, it looks almost like fine icing sugar. Also they gave me 500g block of instant dry yeast, which als...

thanks guys for all your concern. Even though it may seam that i do not understand the magnitude of the situation that i almost put myself in, i fully understand the weight of it. Biggest learning curve that my friend and I have made is to perhaps not serve our strong alcohol to friends at all, espe...

yes i collected into small jars, the whole batch had this kind of sweet taste, the heads more so than the hearts. but with the hearts i mixed some bourbon chips and some bourbon essence, left it for a day and filtered the chips out, gave it to my friend to try and he loved the crap out of it, i filt...

Distilling it right now,
ive got about 3Litres so far all of it is coming out at aroound the 90% mark give or take a percent.
it tastes kind of sweet i guess, if i filter this will it take that out and give it a neutral taste?
burns very blue, almost no orange beard
just waiting to hit tails.

well, my still didnt come with any instructions because i had to buy the condenser separate from the boiler...

scottishboy im not sure what post your refering to? ive tried cooling my wash on the tiles, it gets hotter. i put it on the tiles in my bathroom and it got up to 35 degrees pretty fast so i have it sitting in the bathtub with some cooler water in it and its keeping at about 26 degrees. im going to p...

ok soo one of the washs has stopped foaming and bubbling unless i stir it and then immediately put the lid back on. it has a SG of 990, but the wash doesnt seam to have cleared, it is a yellow water colour but i cant see my stirer at the bottom of the fermenter when i put it in. Also i did use a tur...

haha ok i will try that, but i think if my airlock is still bubbling its still going for now anyway, one batch is still producing foam.

just a quick question, ive read many articles on fermenting your wash, but with a turbo that i was given the packet said 7 days. so should i be able to distill straight away next thursday if it is clear?

haha yes thats correct :). Its not hard to see whos trying to help and whos trying to make money. When i asked for a non turbo yeast, they said they didnt have it and told me that using other yeasts wasnt worthwhile because it would turn out crap, but the two washes im going to put on today will be ...

The original reason i didnt read about the still right away(referring to hooklines post) is because i was just busy monitoring my washes' because they were almost over heating, sitting right about 34-35, they have since cooled down to about 28-30c after i filled the bathtub with water and added some...

cooling water... you sure you've read through that thread about cm operation? I skimmed it last night, but i full just read through it right then, its a good read. I should have just taken the time last night to read it in between research. my element is 1380W i believe. or its 1280W I havnt really...

Hey Rad, The brew shop people near my place were pretty good to me, gave me free sugars and yeasts, but i guess i spent an arm and a leg so i deserved it. I brought in a wash recipe(lemon juice, tomato paste, sugar, yeast, one of the popular ones on here) that i was going to do and they told me to d...

thank you very much for the reply, i will read up on that thread

Hey everyone, my names Mark, Markme... me mark. what ever you feel like calling me. So for my first setup i purchased a 25lt 3 in 1 boiler super reflux condenser with ceramic saddles for packing four 30L fermenter buckets, little water pump, a fuselex collumn carbon filter yeasts, sugars, oak and ru...