TC small-fv LARGE

[Duncndisorderly]

Im planning on putting 5 litres of apple concentrate , yeast and yeast vit into a 5 gallon carboy and leaving it be for a week, my question is this, Will puuting such a small amount into a large vessel cause me any problems? and if so should i use my spare pressure barrel as the FV and pressurise it a little?

[prolix]

buy a 5l bottle of water and use that as a fermenter do water you like with the water, it came free with the bottle.

[Curious Brew]

Seems a shame not to fill the rest of the carboy with juice as well...

[Duncndisorderly]

Seems a shame not to fill the rest of the carboy with juice as well...

The idea had occured to me but never having made it before i thought id do a small batch first just incase i arsed it up badly, still nothing ventured etc

[Duncndisorderly]

In the end i went with a 5 litre water bottle, some yeast vit and a gervin champagne yeast, all seems to be going well so far, ill try and get some pictures up

[Duncndisorderly]

[dreadstar]

So what effect would having too small amount of liquid in your fermentor? I got my TC 8L in a 25L fermentor bucket haven't noticed anything yet but it's my first so wouldn't really know.

[Duncndisorderly]

Im not really sure as i the end i went the way of the 5l water bottle,
I'll tell you what i can be sure of,i bottled the TC on monday evening and the small amount i couldnt squeeze into a bottle i drank.


and it was very very sharp


and very very nice, i also threw another two cartons of apple juice on the remaining slurry

Science is cool

[Duffbeer]

So what effect would having too small amount of liquid in your fermentor? I got my TC 8L in a 25L fermentor bucket haven't noticed anything yet but it's my first so wouldn't really know.

It would not create a problem whilst ferment is vigorous and co2 being produced, nor if your going to bottle immidiatly whilst still cloudy. But if your going to leave it to clear after ferment has finished then there's a good chance it will oxidize and be open to contamination.

[dreadstar]

So what effect would having too small amount of liquid in your fermentor? I got my TC 8L in a 25L fermentor bucket haven't noticed anything yet but it's my first so wouldn't really know.

It would not create a problem whilst ferment is vigorous and co2 being produced, nor if your going to bottle immidiatly whilst still cloudy. But if your going to leave it to clear after ferment has finished then there's a good chance it will oxidize and be open to contamination.

Cool Guessing I should really invest in one of them airlock bubbler things so I can see how things are going without letting to much air contact my brews.