What are Campden Tablets and What Are They Are Used For? 

Hey Dimpie Your comments are being taken to heart. We have been looking into new equipment. Better camera and better sound. We are actually using a wimpy little flip camera. This camera has close to zero settings its full auto all the time apparently. Those issues have been driving me nuts when I watch the videos for editing. But we are both two busy guys with a limited budget and just trying to have fun. Most of the money goes back into the beers. But we'll hopefully have a new camera soon!

As a very basic novice to home brewing your video filled a very big gap in my knowledge. Well presented and easy to understand, thanks chaps :)

Actually really appreciated this video!

Ascorbic acid or vitamin c will eliminate chlorine. I use a very small amount and campden tablets for wine fermentation and it works very well.

oh my gosh this was absolutely adorable. Loved this talk.

So Campton stops the fermenting process it's not like a probiotic?

... and yet cider-makers used to use the naturally occurring yeasts to ferment the apple juice. So is it really necessary if you add the yeast straight after making your apple juice?

Crumbs... I just popped in to talk about Campden tablets! As a keen cider maker the ‘Holy Grail’ for me is trying to get just a little bit of secondary fermentation in the bottle whilst leaving enough back sweetening to balance the acidity. My cider’s are often too dry because I bottle too late or too fizzy because I’m chancing my luck for the yeast activity in the bottle to stop and leave some sweetness. I’ve been playing around a little with Campden tablets as a means of suppressing the yeast activity to have a bit more control. As yet without much success but I’m sure there’s something in it if I experiment enough! Anyway, I’m enjoying the videos despite how well polished they might be. Thumbs up from me! Cheers for now. Alan.

Very concise and scientific explanation. Thanks guys.

Hey great video! I was making a strawberry blonde and everything went well during primary fermentation. At the time I didn't have another carboy on hand so I thought to just add the frozen strawberries I bought straight into the primary and add one Camden tablet per gallon so the yeast in the primary wouldn't ferment and change the character of the strawberry addition. A day after adding the tablet my fermentation fridge smelt completely like sulfur and rotten egg (which wasn't surprising as it is potassium metabisulfite ie. it contains sulfur somewhere in there), but after that the beer went sour as if it had an infection from something wild. As I understand it I should be able to add frozen strawberries to the beer without fear of infection so long as I sanitize the outside of the bag and the scissors I used to cut with, just as one would when opening a package of yeast, but this happened. Is what went wrong due to The Camden tablet reacting with the yeast? I don't know if you might have any insight? All said and done I probably should have just cleaned another fermenter and purged it with CO2 rather than doing secondary fermentation with fruit in the primary carboy. Any thoughts would help.

I use them in cider before bottling to prevent ending up with apple cider vinegar after letting it rack for a while

Thank you! I hated the "just do it dont ask questions" attitude as someone trying to homebrew various ciders. There is a lot to learn very quickly, but I want to understand why things happen not just how to do a reaction xy=z style.

Can I use these tablets for sterilizing apple juice? Will it effect the juice negatively ? Does it extend shelf life and is it dangerous to drink it ? Does it effect the taste ?

Couldn't you just use a Britta filter to remove chlorides amongst other additives from tap water. Here in the UK we have high mineral content due to natural sources but also high sterilising agents such as chlorides and fluorides which mess with the fermentation and leave disgusting after tastes. I've use campden tablets before but seriously just considering filtration and pasteurisation over sterilisation. Whats your thoughts.

Campden tablets and potassium sorbate is the same thing?

Sir, i m from sri Lanka.. We are not a Wine making country. It is difficult to find the campdam tablets. Is there alternative stuff.. i tent to boil the water and etc...Thank you

Any substitute instead of campden tabs??

Do you really have to add the Campden Tablet 36 hours before the brew session for there to be an impact on chlorine reduction? I started adding Campden to my coffee every morning and I think I get a better tasting coffee.

i told someone i want to transfer my wine from after 6 months to a year in to other bottles and i was worried about oxygen getting to it because the fermentation is done ya know and someone told me i should just use campden tablets like everyone else so now im confused how does campden tablets prevent oxygen from getting to your wine?

Does this mean that using it prior to bottling will in fact prevent natural carbonation of the yeast? Does it kill the yeast and inhabits yeast refermentation and conditioning in the bottle?

So when should I add potassium metabisulphite in fermenter?

Hi Guys, what about an update to this regarding using SMB/PMB to stabilise and extend the life of kegged NEIPA (or use citric acid or using SMB/PMB + citric acid). I’ve started to CO2 flush kegs of a 3g solution of SMB (instead of Starsan) in my oxygen free transfers with the assumption there will be some residue of SMB left in the keg (Brulosophy suggests 0.3g per 19L of beer). Do my NEIPA’s stay fresher longer?...maybe. Whaddya think? Cheers, Guys.

Hi, can i add the campden tablet after extracted the wine?

Can campden tablets stabilize and extend the shelf life of just plain drinking water?

Good video 📹 lads!

Should I put these tables in my homemade hard cider? I just want to make sure the yeast stuff will not cause like issues and kill my friends... I heard a guy used this and didn't boil his wine that were in his wine bottles....

I have sodium metabisulfite rather than sodium....is that ok?

You guys started in on an episode of Drunk History for a minute there!!

I agree. that auto zoom and light is horrible.

Sorry for asking 2 years later, but is it ok to add extra Campden's? I accidentally put two tablets in about 3 gallons of hard cider. Will my cider be ruined, or just extra yeast neutral?

What If you dont use them?

The name Campden tablet comes from the town of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, England, where the original solution was developed in the 1920s by a sir george chegwell campden, also known for inventing skirting board ladders and tartan paint. serlysly tho u not crushing ur campden? takes like 50 years to disolve. campden is 100 emoji

you guys are talking about Kingdom tablets what really does the Camden tablets do and what not the sodium metabisulfite do when I'm trying to defeat in spite of wild East

How to' make plum wine

Yes 1871

Lol I like you guys ;)

Vitamin C.

tell you what they are.. brutal. never sniff a tube full

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