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[Snyper564 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Snyper564]

Now that it's winter, I'm assuming bottle carbing/conditioning will take longer? I should probably move them into a warmer room and not keep them in the 18 degree corner where they are now?

If you not in a rush 18 deg is pretty decent should be carbed in a week to 1.5

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

18 degrees is fine for carbonation. Remember the yeast eats through that little bit of sugar probably in a matter of 3~4 days. The rest of the time the beer should just absorb the CO2, and that's about it.

[BeerHolic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BeerHolic]

I am not so lucky, cabonation for me is as below.
More than 30 deg takes about a week.
25 deg takes about 2 weeks
18 deg takes about 3 weeks

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

Weird. Most of my beers are carbonated fine after 5~7 days in the bottle. The carbonation gets finer with time, yes, but they're good to drink only a few days later.

[SykomantiS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close SykomantiS]

Can you share a pic of your setup? I guess you had te get seal for the inside?


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It's nothing fancy really and I don't use the urn for brewing since I purchased my Grainfather.
I use it as a sparge water heater now (way overkill in size) since I absolutely destroyed my sparge water heater

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[Chris_za1 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris_za1]

It's nothing fancy really and I don't use the urn for brewing since I purchased my Grainfather.
I use it as a sparge water heater now (way overkill in size) since I absolutely destroyed my sparge water heater

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Where did you get those tap nipples (is that what you call it?) from?


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[SykomantiS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close SykomantiS]

Where did you get those tap nipples (is that what you call it?) from?


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Everything stainless steel was bought from NDE (except for the washers). They call it a swage nipple.

Edit to add:
This is what I was quoted for and paid, Oct 2020
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[Rocket-Boy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Rocket-Boy]

It's nothing fancy really and I don't use the urn for brewing since I purchased my Grainfather.
I use it as a sparge water heater now (way overkill in size) since I absolutely destroyed my sparge water heater

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Looks very similar to my setup, barrel nipple between the ball valve and 90deg elbow with washers on both ends.
The standard hole does need to be enlarged a bit to fit the 1/2" nipple.

[BruHaha Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BruHaha]

If you not in a rush 18 deg is pretty decent should be carbed in a week to 1.5

I checked this morning and overnight temps went down to 16. Not in a rush, but I had a week old taster last night and it was rather flat. Just thought temps might have something to do with it. Will give it a blanky :P

[BeerHolic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BeerHolic]

Weird. Most of my beers are carbonated fine after 5~7 days in the bottle. The carbonation gets finer with time, yes, but they're good to drink only a few days later.

The norm is 2 - 3 weeks, depending on the beer.
So from my point of view it is weird that yours are carbonated so quickly.
Good luck to you then.

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

The norm is 2 - 3 weeks, depending on the beer.
So from my point of view it is weird that yours are carbonated so quickly.
Good luck to you then.

Oh I'm sure it takes longer, I just always found mine to carbonate fast. Not sure if others have the same thing. Time helps though.

For example a Helles I bottled 3 from on Monday was already showing good signs of carbonation yesterday afternoon when I checked the bottles. Stored cool, at room temp. I'll pop one in the fridge tomorrow morning to see how it is tomorrow afternoon.

[Dewald Posthumus Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dewald Posthumus]

Keg your beers you bloody amateurs!

[Rocket-Boy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Rocket-Boy]

Oh I'm sure it takes longer, I just always found mine to carbonate fast. Not sure if others have the same thing. Time helps though.

For example a Helles I bottled 3 from on Monday was already showing good signs of carbonation yesterday afternoon when I checked the bottles. Stored cool, at room temp. I'll pop one in the fridge tomorrow morning to see how it is tomorrow afternoon.

For ales with US-05 I find that drinkable from around 5 days and fully carbed around 8 days.
I have yet to wait 2 weeks for anything to bottle condition fully, but I mainly do APA, IPA and IRA's.

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

Carbonate/bottle condition is two different things. I should also add I like my beers on the low carbed side, so that's perhaps something that also helps my time.

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Keg your beers you bloody amateurs!

I am. Sometimes some is left over and gets dumped into a few loose bottles though. Only the clearest beer goes into the keg. The first litre and the last bits all go in bottles.

[Chris_za1 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris_za1]

Need help please.

As mentioned in a another post, my mate made a 50l brew pot for me out of keg. I did a trial run this morning and heated around 20l of water to 80 degrees on gas. There was a strange smell, almost chemical and rubber coming from the keg. Not sure if underneath or the gas burner - but this has me concerned to do a batch in the keg.

So I thought maybe I should just spend the money on new pot

50L stainless steel - R1080
Hop spider, ball valve, thermometer & silicon tube from Amazon - 1818

So R2898 for a proper brewing pot with everything I need.

If I get logik urn, it's R1500 and then still have to get all the accessories.


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