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gui_tarzan · 02-13-2011, 02:44 PM

Still not a lot of carbonation after the foam goes down, but the head was much bigger this time.

tchapchap · 02-13-2011, 03:03 PM

Looks like a good brew, Jim!

tchapchap · 02-13-2011, 03:05 PM

....besides, a little head never hurt anybody!

gui_tarzan · 02-13-2011, 03:09 PM

I don't know what mix this beer is, but it's very very creamy and not at all bitter. I don't know how else to explain it.

tchapchap · 02-13-2011, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by gui_tarzan

I don't know what mix this beer is, but it's very very creamy and not at all bitter. I don't know how else to explain it.

Sounds mighty tasty! Hope you took notes so you can repeat!

gui_tarzan · 02-13-2011, 04:19 PM

I just followed the directions and put the ingredients in that came with it. A refill kit would probably turn out the same. I just put regular table sugar in it, someone asked me if I had put a certain type of sugar in it but I don't know if that would have made a difference in the carbonation or not.

Briandg · 02-14-2011, 12:49 PM

Some of the people have said no to table sugar, but it's usually been a matter of a cidery-fruity flavor that it adds to the beer. I tried a home brew a while back that I was given, and I think that i noted that very thing.

SmoKerch · 02-15-2011, 03:29 PM

Get some corn sugar next time.

dz130 · 02-15-2011, 05:11 PM

Is it that it's not that carbonated, or is it that the carbonation is much finer? The foam looks like it's made up of smaller bubbles vs larger, coarser foam bubbles from some other beers.

BigJohn · 02-16-2011, 07:21 AM

Not to get too technical, but there are 3 types of sugar typically involved in "home brew" beer.
1 -Malt sugar. Either condensed as an extract or dried as a powder. This is the "beer" sugar.

2 - Corn Sugar. Powder or tablets, typically, but some will use syrups. Most often used to carbonate due to it's neutral flavor, but some folks will use it to "lighten" the beer color and flavor or bump the alcohol content.

3 - Refined "Table" sugars. Typically used in cheaper beers (commercially) as rice sugar, etc. or in "home brew kits" to replace a portion of Malt with a cheaper substituted. SOme commercial bears use SOME type of Sugar. Old Peculiar uses some Treacle. Other beers call for "raw" sugar (demera) or even brown or molasses)

Ok. these are listed in the order in which you should use them, except in the case where the STYLE you're brewing calls for some other Sugar (belgian golden ales, for example, want "candied sugar" - recrystallized rock candy sugar, basically).

You should almost always carbonate with Corn Sugar. A couple places make "fermentation tables" or slugs that you drop one or 2 into the bottle, fill it, cap it, and boom. Wait 2 weeks and enjoy. No measuring.

Or, dissolve corn sugar (or malt extract + 20% by weight) in warm water, and swirl your beer in the bottling bucket while slowly pouring the sugar mixture in. Need to make sure it's mixed REALLY GOOD or your first beers filled will over carbonate, the last ones will under carbonate. But don't "agitate the beer" to the point where oxygen is being absorbed.

Hope that helps!

02-13-2011, 02:44 PM	#1
gui_tarzan Herf God Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The 26th state Posts: 28,796	Six weeks after bottling Still not a lot of carbonation after the foam goes down, but the head was much bigger this time. __________________ Jim...<>< The four most dangerous words in the US government: "and for other purposes" I am an AJ Fernandez ho... Last edited by gui_tarzan; 02-13-2011 at 02:47 PM.

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02-13-2011, 03:09 PM	#4
gui_tarzan Herf God Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The 26th state Posts: 28,796	I don't know what mix this beer is, but it's very very creamy and not at all bitter. I don't know how else to explain it. __________________ Jim...<>< The four most dangerous words in the US government: "and for other purposes" I am an AJ Fernandez ho...

02-13-2011, 04:19 PM	#6
gui_tarzan Herf God Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The 26th state Posts: 28,796	I just followed the directions and put the ingredients in that came with it. A refill kit would probably turn out the same. I just put regular table sugar in it, someone asked me if I had put a certain type of sugar in it but I don't know if that would have made a difference in the carbonation or not. __________________ Jim...<>< The four most dangerous words in the US government: "and for other purposes" I am an AJ Fernandez ho...

02-14-2011, 12:49 PM	#7
Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,518	Some of the people have said no to table sugar, but it's usually been a matter of a cidery-fruity flavor that it adds to the beer. I tried a home brew a while back that I was given, and I think that i noted that very thing.

02-15-2011, 03:29 PM	#8
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02-15-2011, 05:11 PM	#9
dz130 Herf Meister Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Out of KSA FINALLY! Posts: 7,838	Is it that it's not that carbonated, or is it that the carbonation is much finer? The foam looks like it's made up of smaller bubbles vs larger, coarser foam bubbles from some other beers. __________________ Doug Finally out of the sandbox. If I say Corona, I ain't talking beer. RIP Ed Toner

02-16-2011, 07:21 AM	#10
BigJohn Chief Geek, @cigarweekly Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta (north burbs - Woodsto Posts: 14,174	Not to get too technical, but there are 3 types of sugar typically involved in "home brew" beer. 1 -Malt sugar. Either condensed as an extract or dried as a powder. This is the "beer" sugar. 2 - Corn Sugar. Powder or tablets, typically, but some will use syrups. Most often used to carbonate due to it's neutral flavor, but some folks will use it to "lighten" the beer color and flavor or bump the alcohol content. 3 - Refined "Table" sugars. Typically used in cheaper beers (commercially) as rice sugar, etc. or in "home brew kits" to replace a portion of Malt with a cheaper substituted. SOme commercial bears use SOME type of Sugar. Old Peculiar uses some Treacle. Other beers call for "raw" sugar (demera) or even brown or molasses) Ok. these are listed in the order in which you should use them, except in the case where the STYLE you're brewing calls for some other Sugar (belgian golden ales, for example, want "candied sugar" - recrystallized rock candy sugar, basically). You should almost always carbonate with Corn Sugar. A couple places make "fermentation tables" or slugs that you drop one or 2 into the bottle, fill it, cap it, and boom. Wait 2 weeks and enjoy. No measuring. Or, dissolve corn sugar (or malt extract + 20% by weight) in warm water, and swirl your beer in the bottling bucket while slowly pouring the sugar mixture in. Need to make sure it's mixed REALLY GOOD or your first beers filled will over carbonate, the last ones will under carbonate. But don't "agitate the beer" to the point where oxygen is being absorbed. Hope that helps! __________________ Government breaks our legs, then hands us a pair of crutches and says, "You see? If it wasn't for us you wouldn't be able to walk.".... Aren't we so lucky!? Need a website? Get one from a BOTL - > PM me! *"I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."* Help support the CigarWeekly webhost (me!) > Shop online? Start HERE: direct to Amazon.com Protect your computer from VIRUSES > Get Avast! Last edited by BigJohn; 02-16-2011 at 09:30 AM.

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