HowbeckAles
Active Member
Bought a new King Keg the other day so needed something to put in it!
First go at a lager and first go with the keg so looking forward to not having to clean and sanitise 40 bottles and keeping my fingers crossed that it'll be ok for the summer. First use of the new auto-syphon too so standing by with a mop...
Went for a can of Coopers European Lager, 700g light DME, 500g dextrose, and boiled up 12g of Cascade finishing hops for 10 minutes. Sitting under the stairs at a steady 18 degrees. Has anyone got any recommendations for the priming stage? I'm used to chucking the tip of a teaspoon's worth of dextrose in a 500ml bottle with mixed results but yet to explore the consistency of batch priming. Would prefer not to over-fizz it and not sure how the CO2 top-ups will affect the carbonation once I get going?
Cheers!
First go at a lager and first go with the keg so looking forward to not having to clean and sanitise 40 bottles and keeping my fingers crossed that it'll be ok for the summer. First use of the new auto-syphon too so standing by with a mop...
Went for a can of Coopers European Lager, 700g light DME, 500g dextrose, and boiled up 12g of Cascade finishing hops for 10 minutes. Sitting under the stairs at a steady 18 degrees. Has anyone got any recommendations for the priming stage? I'm used to chucking the tip of a teaspoon's worth of dextrose in a 500ml bottle with mixed results but yet to explore the consistency of batch priming. Would prefer not to over-fizz it and not sure how the CO2 top-ups will affect the carbonation once I get going?
Cheers!