Brewing Myths

I think I have brewed enough good beer to come up with some wisdom about brewing.

1) Use coopers plastic bottles to package your beer. It is impossible for them to explode. They probably will fail around the 10 bar mark (atmospheres) and yeast will stop fermenting way before that - not too sure exactly what pressure the yeast will stop working, but they do recommend you limit your commercial brew tanks to 15m (1.5bar). hmmm I feel this is right for an experiment. I've read that Co2 will freely go between disolved and bubble state at around 6 atmospheres.

2) Never rack your beer. The beer really needs to hang around after primary fermentation stops for the the yeast cells to absorb nasty bad tasting chemicals (diacetyl). Let it sit for about three days before bottling.

3) Don't boil your wort if you are using kit cans. Another waste of time - you will remove the volitiles in the hops.