Question!

[truemay]

A beer kit supposedly makes 40 pints.I drink maybe 2-3 pints a night,I always keg it, so even at 3 pints a night it should last roughly just over 12 days.Does it buggery! So, how much pints do you reckon you actually get out a kit? Allowing for the amount of beer you leave behind in the FV after syphoning and the amount you cant get to in the keg?

[rootsbrew]

Does your fermenter have graduations on it - how full is it?

Couple things that reduce end volume and possible means of losing less...
- samples - it's easy to remove more than the minimum you need to float the hydrometer. I have come to use a ladel whose volume is almost exactly 100ml.
- bottling - every bottle is an opportunity for loss. Bulk priming just before bottling, so yeast doesn't have time to get going again. Try using a tap and bottling wand so beer fills from the bottom of the bottle, as well as flowing and stopping when required.
- syphoning - not found a way to improve this. Always seem to lose up to 500 ml doing this. Even being unfussy with the amount of sediment in the last bottle.

Also, a lot of the volume of the sugar, both added and within the malt, gets lost. In fementation,
Sugar (Glucose) -> Alcohol (Ethanol) + Carbon-dioxide (CO2). This CO2, is part of the wort, but not the final beer because 70% CO2 generated before bottling or kegging is lost. The more fermentable sugar in the wort, the more CO2 and the less beer. Then there's the trub, x2 if you use a secondary fermenter. The amount of dead yeast also relates to the amount of sugar in the wort.

... so the "makes 40 pints" has to be read as "makes 40 pints of wort".

[Ditch]

So, how much pints do you reckon you actually get out a kit?

No idea, mate. I'm far to busy drinking my beer to trouble my head with such questions.

[Mo06]

I brewed my last brew to 20 litres.

I bottled it in 29 x 650ml glass swing top bottles, plus one 500ml plastic bottle (for the "squeeze test').

So that's 19.35 litres of drinkable beer in total.

[DannyJalapeno]

Just bottled my Canadian Blonde, got 21 litres out of it. Would have been approx 22 had i not left the tap of my bottling bucket open whilst syphoning it from my primary like a fool.

[cookoff]

A beer kit supposedly makes 40 pints.I drink maybe 2-3 pints a night,I always keg it, so even at 3 pints a night it should last roughly just over 12 days.Does it buggery! So, how much pints do you reckon you actually get out a kit? Allowing for the amount of beer you leave behind in the FV after syphoning and the amount you cant get to in the keg?

you could always get a bigger fermentation bucket that does 60L and have 40 litres on the go....
as you are kegging, it could save you some time.

cook

[millemg]

I always get 11 x 2 litre pet bottles from my brews.


22L = 38.7145880pt

[St. Ailbhe's Brewery]

I always get c. 30 - 32 pints, having brewed 20 litres. If they expect you to get 40 pints out of each kit (and they do) you'd be bottling water.