Your knowledge please

[pk]

Lads when dry hopping, do you just toss the hops into the fermenter and that's it? Don't stirr it or anything?

Also, I made an extract pale ale but due to space issues I had to put the bottles out in the garage. I primed the batch with sugar, (dark muscavado), I tried a bottle after 1 week of conditioning. It was completely flat. Do you think it's because the garage is freezing thats at fault here and I just need to leave it a while?

Thanks
Paul

[DEMPSEY]

Way too cold atm need to bring them in to the house.

[johnrm]

@pk, tossing the hops in loose may cause clogging when if comes to syphoning or bottling.
Sanitise a muslin bag and some marbles by boiling, add marbles to bag (to weigh it down) then hops.

Carbonation is most likely temp, but it could be that the bottles have not sealed.
Crown caps, fliptops or Coopers oxbar?

[delzep]

I never understood the whole marbles thing. Surely the hops are just gonna settle in the gunk? A string from the lid would work

[johnrm]

@delzep, If in the boil then yes. He's talking about the foimenter. A different bag of cats.

[delzep]

Yeah, the fermenter is what I mean....the bag would just sink the to bottom into the gunk

[johnrm]

Without help, Hops will float so apart from not getting the most out of them, they have been known to get mouldy on top of the Beer.
Marbles will pull the muslin down, buoyancy of the hops should keep them out of the gunk.
One more trick is to sanitise thread, tie this to the hop-bag and capture this in the lid so the hops are immersed half way doen.

[delzep]

One more trick is to sanitise thread, tie this to the hop-bag and capture this in the lid so the hops are immersed half way doen.

Thats what I said 

[johnrm]

Its late, I didn't read the whole sentence 

[delzep]

Stick to playing guitar yeah 

[beerfly]

rough rule of thumb for carbonation, you need to have the bottles in a place where you would be comfortable wearing a tshirt.  if it did not taste sweet then it was probably a bad seal

[johnrm]

+1

@DZ, The Geetar is for the young fella.
Picked up a new Lag T66D today for 169 in Promusica Cork for him.

[delzep]

Good call...he'll need to build up finger strength

[mr hoppy]

rough rule of thumb for carbonation, you need to have the bottles in a place where you would be comfortable wearing a tshirt.

That's a great tip that I never heard before.

[LordEoin]

if it did not taste sweet then it was probably a bad seal