SafetyThird
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Evening all. I'm about to brew my first beer kit since Tom Caxton kits of my teenage years, which were rather a long while ago. I've picked up a Woodford's Nog kit, fermentation vessel and associated bits along with a pressure barrel from my local brew shop.
As we heat our house with wood stoves, the temperature is rather varied day to day so I've set up a water bath trug with a heater and controller in my workshop and I've surrounded the trug with a box made from offcuts of celotex that I had spare to keep it insulated. Hopefully that will give me a reliable temperature for brewing.
Now, reading the instructions for when you put the finished beer in the barrel, it says you can add sugar to the brew for a second fermentation or you can leave it and just add CO2. Now, I have a CO2 bottle to put on the barrel but wouldn't you normally add the sugar to make it fizz and then just add CO2 to help pressurise the barrel as the volume drops?
Hope it's not too daft a question, I'm sure there'll be many more coming as I explore brewing again.
As we heat our house with wood stoves, the temperature is rather varied day to day so I've set up a water bath trug with a heater and controller in my workshop and I've surrounded the trug with a box made from offcuts of celotex that I had spare to keep it insulated. Hopefully that will give me a reliable temperature for brewing.
Now, reading the instructions for when you put the finished beer in the barrel, it says you can add sugar to the brew for a second fermentation or you can leave it and just add CO2. Now, I have a CO2 bottle to put on the barrel but wouldn't you normally add the sugar to make it fizz and then just add CO2 to help pressurise the barrel as the volume drops?
Hope it's not too daft a question, I'm sure there'll be many more coming as I explore brewing again.