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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
 Dry Ice. Now I have heard it all.
...some sort of "drop" (like a lollie apparently) that you can drop into the bottle to give it some fizz. Might look into that. Sound safer than mucking around with compressed CO2 or dry ice.
Yesterday I split my developing bug into two. ... Is the fluid meant to go thickish like this? Neither is "frothing" yet though  |
Nothing wrong with dry ice - works well.
The drop is just a lollie - a measured amount of sugar. After the main fermentation, you stick the brew in a bottle and then the drop in and you get a second fermentation with the right amount of gas to gas it up. Much cheaper to just make your own - dissolve some sugar in water and measure out the right number of ml.
Don't know about the split lot. The froth is just the bubbles collecting on top and usually takes a while.