It is definitely possible, but it is more hygenic to have a clean cork! So I got the corker and a 750ml bottle of beer. I drank the beer and was left with an empty bottle and the used/deformed cork. I soaked the cork in hot water for 5 minutes. The cork will expand and will take its natural shape again (more or less). You will see that the water changes color and it gets some of the soaked up beer out. This is the biggest reason why you want a new and clean cork. The cork will never be as clean. The previous content of the bottle will always stick around. Once you press the used and somewhat cleaned cork in the new bottle, more water will come out along with the soaked up beer. That is it! I am gonna try to put the cork through the corker once. Squeeze the contaminations out and then cork the bottle with it.

Normally for hoppy beers i drink fairly fresh. But testing a bottle a week after at least two weeks is a good rule.

If i am honest i cant recall its so long ago.Is the mashing pot insulated as often most well insulated pots loose very little over a 60 min mash

certainly these are all old leffe style bottles. It will keep the c02 as long as the seal remains.For how long you can keep somethings thats normally based on the abv.

Yes can be used in a pressure barrel.Theres definitive answer.You will likely need to top up as c02 decreases with pints drawn.

Lol

Don't know why

Dude blast from the past i hope you are well also.

Haha Uk all my life.But have had people day that before.

Same problem, did you found solution?

@@priitaaspalu3067 I gave it to Beko service in Timișoara . Guess what? They didn't find the problem and they replaced the complete electronic board. Now it is solved. :))))

Cheers as rusty as my brewkit now.

Haha i cheers i hope its not rusty

Hi i dont recall changing the yeast on this. I dont really ever do that on a first brew of a kit and theres not many i have brewed twice. Yeast will always have a impact on any beer if you swap out. That said most kits come with a fairly good one and enough to ferment it well.You will be ok with the oyxgen its always advisable but as long as you had the ferment start it will carry itself through as long as you keep stable temps.Some of the kits vary and certainly the two can kits are always better and more rounded. This by no means a bad beer and dont forget tastes is perceptive you may enjoy it more than the next person would.

Well thats a great question trial a error if bottles are all varying heights i try to use only one type of bottle.You want the capper seated just above so it presses onto the bottle to fold the cap down.But i dont think to date ive ever cracked a bottle .Then i mark a line on the capper on pen for certain bottles meaning its also easy to readjust.

It would be to bump up the abv of the beer more malt more sugar more sugar more alcohol.That said most saisons and even older ones were not always big abv beers. They were more sessionable drunk by farmhands in payment for work so 7% seem odd when kit makers do this. Perhaps that was their Christmas beer and somewhere the history got blurred about what was consumed daily.

I now you half a teaspoon of demerara sugar and so far have not bottle bombs per 500ml bottle.I used to batch prime but had mixed results.Of course make sure the beer is fully fermented out.