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Tagged with temperature carbonation
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When do you refrigerate your ginger beer?
The standard instructions are: Make your bug; brew your sweet ginger 'tea'; cool; add bug to your tea, and bottle for second fermentation; let ferment, at room temperature, to your desired level, ...
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kegged cider CO2 foam, not much sparkle though
Left it for two weeks at 2.3 bar (35 PSI) and 17 C (59 F). Poured a 2 liter bottle, it made beer-like pleasant foams upon pouring but it had almost no sparkles to the taste bud. Should I let it sit ...
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What is the ideal temperature during carbonation with priming for an ale?
During sugar priming, how does the temperature influence?
In my understanding, higher the temperature, faster the carbonation process. But can this somehow produce some off-flavors on the beer?
Too ...
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bottle conditioning ale below room temperature
After bottling my batch of Porter, I forgot it need to be conditioned at room temperature. I left it in my garage for almost a week at 45-50°. When I realized what I had done, I moved it inside the ...
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Half my batch (while carbonating) got put in the fridge by mistake
They were put in the fridge at day 11 or 12. I'm afraid to take them out (to resume carbonation) because of skunking. Is this valid? I've read the other questions about carbonation/temperature, etc, ...
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Lagering (Secondary to Bottling to Lagering)
So I recently bottled a pilsner recipe after a drop from 1.061 to 1.011 specific gravity (over 6% ABV potential), and my recipe instructions called for 7-10 days at room temperature (since they've ...
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What's the best/safest way to handle likely bottle bombs?
I'm using 16oz amber e-z cap bottles (swing tops). I've read that they'll self-vent before exploding, but I've heard other accounts of them actually exploding.
I'm storing them like this and it's ...
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Storing full kegs at room temperature
So I have a related question here, but my questions are the following:
I only have one (and only have room for one) dedicated chest freezer/fridge for brewing. I have one beer (Marzen) kegged and ...
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High-gravity beer stored too cold to carbonate during bottle conditioning. How can I carbonate this beer?
I made a strong scotch ale. Bottled it up, 2 weeks later no carbonation. Is there a way to save this batch?
OG 1.095,
Used Safale US-05,
2 weeks in primary,
6 weeks in secondary,
FG 1.030,
I ...
Bill Goetz
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Storing bottle conditioned beers and carbonation
I store all my beer at 55°F(12.7°C). Do I need to worry about the beers that are bottle conditioned not being carbonated, or not being at the proper carbonation level? Should they already be ...
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