How are you using Campden tablets with kit beers?

[Mbarn]

Hello.
I've learnt a bit about Campden tablets from this forum, and I had noticed slight TCP flavours caused by Chlorine, so I want to add 1/2 of a Campden tablet to the water I plan to use for a Wherry kit.

The problem I have is using kit beers, I need to add boiling water and the malt at the start, then top up with cold water. I just can't work out how to make this work without either adding the tablet at the end with the yeast (would that work) or buying a second container to pre-treat water, boil some, add to FV with malt, then add the rest of the cold to the FV.

How is everyone else doing it?

Thanks!

 

[Dizzle]

What I usually do is set aside a second bucket filled with the cold water I will be using and add half the campden tablet to that. I leave it for an hour or 2 to stand, covered. I'd then get on with the kit and then when it requires you to add the cold water I just tip it straight in the FV to the required level. HTH :

 

[Tim84]

I was wondering this too but hadn't got around to posting, thanks for starting the topic!

 

[Mbarn]

Thanks for the feedback.

Looks like I'll have to buy another container, wife will be happy ;-)

For now, I'm going to fill the FV, Campden it, then take out 6 pints from the FV to boil in a big pan, add the malt to the boiling water, pour the boiling water back in to FV filled with cold water, add the yeast and hope for the best!

 

[smurfy]

So i had a slight 'medicinal' taste in the first 2 kits i used. Since ive been adding half a campden tablet, crushed into powder, to about 20 litres of water in a second bucket. i use this bucket as a secondary fermenter to rack the beer into after 2 weeks in the primary. (i find it helps the beer to clear much faster)

I read somwhere that the campden tablet removes the chlorine almost instantly so i dont leave the water standing for ages, probly just half an hour or so.

I dont bother treating the water thats come from the kettle.

Since doing this the kits ive made have had a much better taste.

Hope this helps

 

[Mbarn]

Thanks Smurfy

 

[rpt]

If you bottle your beer then having a second FV as a bottling bucket is very useful. You can also use this to treat your water.

 

[CaptainMallard]

I've been using bottled water from the supermarket, but plan to switch to using a second bucket and camden tablets. Until then, I can brag that my beer is brewed from Greenmore Spring :grin:

 

[Mbarn]

I've been using bottled water from the supermarket, but plan to switch to using a second bucket and camden tablets. Until then, I can brag that my beer is brewed from Greenmore Spring :grin:

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