CO2

[Canadjian]

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to carbonate the beer or do you have to use the sugar?

[Hashie]

You can carbonate with CO2, provided you are kegging or you have another suitable pressure vessel to carbonate the beer in and then transfer to bottles.

[kieran]

Yep, what Hashie said. Sugar kicks the yeast back into action, makes a tiny amount of alcool, and the rest is your CO2. Kegs are about the only way to do it otherwise.

 

You can get a Tap-a-Draft system, which are little 6 litre mini-PET kegs with a little CO2 cream type bottle on the front which gasses it on the way through.

 

You chuck the whole thing in the fridge.

 

 

 

http://www.grainandgrape.com.au/brewingsystems_info.htm

[Canadjian]

Do you know where I can get a Tap-a-draft system?

[kieran]

not sure in adelaide, but the link above is for a store in melbourne that sells them.

[Canadjian]

I have been trying to think of a way to gas my tallies, obviously, and I thought why not try using a soda stream soft drink carbonator to gas my beers. I know why not now. I went to take the soda stream bottle out after gassing the brew and the bottle blew off. While blowing off it shot a heap of beer onto the roof and the rest onto me. Anyway I have decided to stick to the traditional method and will just wait til I can set up my keg system.