You can always buy a corney keg, and a C02 bottle and have homebrew on tap.
It is quicker...and tastier.
"Karl S." <null_dev@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Nate & Laurie Benzing wrote:[color=green]
> > I am new to brewing and I started with a kit my in-laws gave me for
> > Christmas. from wal-mart. So I made the first batch in a 1 gallon[/color][/color]
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> > container. It did not ferment real aggressively but it did ferment. So[/color][/color]
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> > then bottle it and they had me put in some powdered dextrose in each[/color][/color]
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> > for carbonation. I let it rest for about 20 days and then[/color][/color]
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> > The brew had the right color but it was flat. No bubbles at all! so I[/color][/color]
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> > a couple more and I getthe same thing. I then Dump an unchilled bottle[/color][/color]
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> > the drain and there is Tons of carbonation. In fact I Pour the rest in[/color][/color]
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> > glass and I get a nice two inch head. so I know that chilled the beer[/color][/color]
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> > FLAT and at room temp (72 degrees) is has bubbles. both batches of the
> > wal-mart kit did this. My yeast was old. I got the kit at Christmas[/color][/color]
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> > made the first batch in June. The yeast was labeled brewers yeast but[/color][/color]
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> > looked allot like the yeast we make bread with.
> >
> > I now have the first real batch going. Extra pale ale. I started it in[/color][/color]
a 6[color=blue][color=green]
> > gallon carboy. It fermented like crazy! monster foam and lots of[/color][/color]
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> > I have bottled it. and I dissolved the priming sugar and mixed it in the
> > bottle bucket as directed. SO the question is. When I put this beer in[/color][/color]
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> > fridge will go flat? or can I relax and know All is well and wal-mart
> > should stay out of the brewing supply business?
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> > Cheers!
> > Nate
> >[/color]
> Chilling beer will tend to reduce the bubbles a little. I'd guess your
> Wal-Mart kit beer wasn't completely flat, but just a little weak in the
> carbonation department. Maybe they didn't have you put quite enough
> dextrose in the bottles, which is better than putting in too much
> anyway. You can get "gusher" bottles that you have to chill and then
> open over the sink, or worse yet the legendary "bottle bombs".
>
> That can happen if you bottle it before it's done fermenting, too.
>
> Mixing the priming sugar in the bottling bucket is better all around
> (especially for getting every bottle the same!) and I think you'll
> probably get enough carbonation. How much priming sugar did you mix into
> the beer?
>
> Karl S.
>
>
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