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Not too bad down here.

Blew the bottom out of most of them and also distorted the top so they are now oval. Suspect they won’t seal.

23l of MJ American IPA. 1105lts.

Nope certainly didn’t take it that way.

23lts of mangrove jacks American IPA.

No I washed them on Saturday and posted on Sunday. First and only time if made the error though. Tend to learn from mistakes and don’t repeat the error.

Nope only did it the once with the PET bottles. I have washed my glass bottles in the dishwasher. New bottles now filled and conditioning. I got the original PET bottles second hand with my first lot of fermentation gear. They were already a little battered. If only used them for the wife’s...

Thanks for the reply’s guys. bottles arrived this afternoon so will be bottling tomorrow morning. Then the next batch of beer on in the afternoon.

Today I became a twin fermentation cabinet brewer. 😂 This will allow for faster turn around. The small fridge used for bottle conditioning and the larger for the snubnose fermenter.

Hi guys. I have a new batch of PET bottles arriving tomorrow. Just wanted your thoughts on how clean they are from new. What do you guys do with new plastic bottles. 1. just sanitise with starsan and fill. 2. wash with cleaner then starsan. My thoughts are they should be clean and only...

Funny, the wife said that afterwards. 😂 And I can’t believe I didn’t see it coming either.

Just a word of warning. I put 40 used PET bottles in the dishwasher on Saturday just to give them a quick clean prior to bottling 40 pints of cider. I had previously done it with glass bottles and thought it would be a quick pain free way to rinse them prior to use, they had already been...

I use a bottle full of starsan. Put the gun I. That while I cap the one I just filled.

23lt mangrove jacks elderflower & lime cider. Total. 44

I have a bottling gun that connects to the CO2 cylinder. Tip goes in the bottle, puff of CO2 the bottom fill. Due to fermenting under pressure the beer already has some CO2 dissolved it so not wanting to over carb it. Early days to see how clear it is yet. Only bottled yesterday. No reason to...

I have just done exactly this with the same kit. I bottle using a beer gun that allows the bottles to be purged prior to filling. I did 5 with no card drop as an experiment for an ale. The rest I used 1 carb drop/500ml bottle. I also did the following:- Crashed the temp to 4C and the dropped...

So smugglers was cold crashed at 15 days to 4C. Having taken a sample on day 8 after the Krausen had almost gone and SG was down to 1.018. 2nd sample taken on day 14 1.016, so considered finished. Bottled on day 21 using a beer gun and CO2 purging the bottles prior to bottling. Decided after...

It’s gone off like a rocket. Hadn’t checked it since Wednesday morning to see it had already started after only 16hrs. Had a quick look in the fermentation fridge today and the Krausen has already dropped. Took a sample and checked the SG. Down from 1050-1018. Raised the temp by a deg to 20C...

23lts of Muntons smugglers special ale. 23,355

Just put this on today. Interesting to see what it’s like. Hopefully a nice Xmas/winter drink. Interesting thing was that the kit only came with 6g of unspecified yeast. I thought this was a thing of the past and that even Woodford’s wherry comes with 2 packs now. Fortunately I had a 10g...