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Possibly. I don't know the chemistry that accounts for 'body'. It could be that the ethanol and carboxylic acids are both very soluble in water, whereas esters are much less so. That would certainly change the 'feel' of the solution.

This is where the chemist in me (I teach the subject...) comes in! In a nutshell, you have the basic idea, Twostage. All the nice flavours which we taste and smell are mostly esters. Esters are compounds which are formed when an alcohol and a carboxylic acid react together (called...

Yes. I added a bit more than that, maybe about a whole teaspoon per bottle.

No don't throw it. Your description seems pretty legit. Give it time, I reckon it'll be OK. How much sugar does your instructions say for priming? I wanted mine quite fizzy so i put in more than I normally do, but it doesn't seemed to have worked.

Hi, those numbers are wrong. Using the ABV calculator here: http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/calculators.php, that works out to about 200%! What exactly are you brewing? Initial hydrometer readings tend to be in the 1040-1060 range (depending on what you're brewing), and it tends to get...

I've got some beer conditioning in some of these as we speak, although I won't be able to tell you how successful it's been until I open one up and see if the seal was good and the beer has carbonated properly. I also managed to get a standard crown cap onto one of these; it kinda hooks itself...

Transferring the beer should be fine. If you syphon it across and have the tubing near the bottom of the receiver bucket so it doesn't splash and fizz up too much then it'll be fine. As a matter of course, I transfer my beer from the FV into a keg in which I have already placed the priming sugar...

Well I got this going this afternoon, and it's gone off like a rocket! I've never had a brew get going so vigorously so quickly! Within 4 hours it was already blowing out through the airlock and I've had to wash it out twice!

What about standard brew enhancer by way of sugar?

I seem to remember reading somewhere that hops growers have been having difficulties recently crop-wise (e.g. bad weather, poor harvests etc.)

So mine's been going for a little over two weeks now. OG was about 1033 and it's now down to about 1000 or so. The airlock is down to one gurgle every 5 or 10 mins or so, and I can still see little bubbles rising through the glass of the demijohn. I'm going to give it a few more days and then...

Which is why I said you need to email Mark and he'll tell what he still has in stock. Discounts vary depending on what you're buying. You'd best ask Mark.

Hi Matt, it doesn't really matter how you transfer the beer, because as soon as it leaves the barrel it is not longer under pressure and will lose all its fizz. In addition, the fact that it all fizzy as it comes out of the barrel will cause major bottling-filling issues because it's just going...

I would have thought that the only effect would be that they work faster at a higher temp.

Unfortunately this LHBS is closing down at the end of the month and they're having a closing down sale. I got a pretty impressive discount on a bunch of stuff. The website isn't now being updated so it's best if you emailer the owner. He's a really nice and helpful guy called Mark, and he'll...

OK so I had a preliminary test bottle just now, the beer having been in the bottle for 2 and half weeks. Wow! An impressive hiss when the cap was released and a powerful fuggles aroma. It seems to have struggled to clear since bottling, but I don't mind a little haze. An impressive amount of...

Yeah all looks good to me. I think you were unlucky and got a dud. My one is working just fine (not that I'm trying to gloat... :P)

That's fine. If you've added 200g of sugar, then you'll need the 500g of spraymalt and a little extra of something, perhaps some brown sugar or a little more spraymalt.

It's fine to add the extra sugar, but you won't be able to calculate the alcohol content at the end, although you can probably estimate it. Knowing the ABV is nice but not essential, but if you don't add the sugar or malt or whatever, you'll have a thin and tasteless beer that won't be above 1%...