MonkeyMick
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Hi..
I started the Evil Dog double hopped IPA a week ago, and despite reading the instructions planned on a brewing time of 3 weeks.
Fermentation has stopped after 7 days with the specific gravity reading 1.010 last night and again this morning.
The FV was kept in the conservatory where daytime temperatures were hitting 30 degrees and nighttime around 12 - 18.
Anyway, my cock up has been ordering mini kegs to carb the beer in, but they won't arrive for another 2 weeks.
My cunning plan to mitigate this is to buy a number of cheap bottles of pop, ditch the pop down the drain, sterilise and then carb up 1.5l of beer per 2l bottle to allow for the CO2 that's produced.
1 - Is this a good idea, and could I then transfer the carbed beer into the kegs when they arrive?
2 - How much of a donkey do you think I feel right now.
Thanks!
I started the Evil Dog double hopped IPA a week ago, and despite reading the instructions planned on a brewing time of 3 weeks.
Fermentation has stopped after 7 days with the specific gravity reading 1.010 last night and again this morning.
The FV was kept in the conservatory where daytime temperatures were hitting 30 degrees and nighttime around 12 - 18.
Anyway, my cock up has been ordering mini kegs to carb the beer in, but they won't arrive for another 2 weeks.
My cunning plan to mitigate this is to buy a number of cheap bottles of pop, ditch the pop down the drain, sterilise and then carb up 1.5l of beer per 2l bottle to allow for the CO2 that's produced.
1 - Is this a good idea, and could I then transfer the carbed beer into the kegs when they arrive?
2 - How much of a donkey do you think I feel right now.
Thanks!