Decided to mess around with some of the specialty kits, ordered two of these, they make 3 gallons each and wanted to do 6 gallons.
Each kit comes with juice, fpack, chap. pack (60 g dextrose), typical chems and fining agents as well as two EC 1118. Instructions say to add both yeast packs, ferment down to <1.020, and add the dextrose and allow it to finish before racking, chems, fining, etc.
So here's my question. I'm thinking about doing both batches together in my primary fermenter just like a normal 6 gallon batch, adding both dextrose in the beginning (instead of waiting til <1.020) to bring up the SG like I normally would, then pitching the yeast. See any problems with that??? Use all 4 packs of 1118??? Or do two separate batches, following the instructions and combine them later?? Thoughts?
Each kit comes with juice, fpack, chap. pack (60 g dextrose), typical chems and fining agents as well as two EC 1118. Instructions say to add both yeast packs, ferment down to <1.020, and add the dextrose and allow it to finish before racking, chems, fining, etc.
So here's my question. I'm thinking about doing both batches together in my primary fermenter just like a normal 6 gallon batch, adding both dextrose in the beginning (instead of waiting til <1.020) to bring up the SG like I normally would, then pitching the yeast. See any problems with that??? Use all 4 packs of 1118??? Or do two separate batches, following the instructions and combine them later?? Thoughts?