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Crystalball: Here is a good link to a calculator and table guide to how "fizzy" types of beer are http://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/ Basically ive found ale is fine at 2.2 CO2 vols in the ilea bottles but cider and larger would be fizzier so have more vols like the table...

I just bought a load of the ikea 1L swing tops and had some skepticism. So i tested one with an AG IPA i was conditioning with a target of 2.2 volumes of CO2. So far no cracks or explosions and this is about 3 or 4 weeks since bottling and there's a good bit of sediment at the bottem. So...

Gollyfish i love that idea of using a hot water tank, i havent looked to see how much they cost yet but interesting stuff! Ive had a reply from plastopack india and quite literally all the said was "it's HDPE" so should be ok at boiling temperatures.

Yes a lack of information is frustrating/worrying. Will post up when the company get back intouch with myself.

I agree however I would assume that's for a temperature range for the containers original purpose i.e. room temp mango chutney. So when using it at boiling liquid temperatures plastic could possibly be released? As for the amount of liquid i'd think the surface area would be more of the...

I've got a very similar build with the mango chutney bucket and 2 wilko kettle elements but someone raised the question the other day would boiling in these plastic containers cause leaching of the plastic into the wort? Could this then also lead to off tasting beer and even so far as to affect...

Hi there, I was gifted a couple LME cans by a chap moving away and am planning on doing a chocolate stout/porter partial mash at the weekend. However i can't find anywhere which states what a generic stout LME is equivalent to in the term of grains, ie 90% pale malt, 5% chocolate malt, 5%...