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by Peatbogbrewer
Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:00 pm
Forum: Cider Making
Topic: Press builds
Replies: 3
Views: 3404

Press builds

My press ends up crippling me after making about 5 gallon. Frozen shoulder and bloody annoyed. So i'm looking at building a press. Im thinking of adapting a hydraulic press to into a rack and cloth press. Presses similar to these: https://www.gumtree.com/other-power-tools/uk/hydraulic+press Anyone e...
by Peatbogbrewer
Tue Nov 28, 2017 7:51 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: New brew after a longish break
Replies: 7
Views: 2329

Re: New brew after a longish break

going to scale up to 5 gallon then norm?
by Peatbogbrewer
Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:58 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Dragons Milk
Replies: 0
Views: 1731

Dragons Milk

11 litre recipe: 3.5kg Maris O, mash 65degs for 1 hour. 500g DME 40g progress at 60 20g EKG/saaz at 10 20gEKG/saaz at 0 Notts danstar at 19 degs Age for a year. So far so good, in the carboy thus weekend. I am wondering though: Should i just leave or shall i ditch in the dregs from a rene cuvee lamb...
by Peatbogbrewer
Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:46 pm
Forum: Cider Making
Topic: oh oh
Replies: 4
Views: 3172

Re: oh oh

My FV has a grommet in the top. I had a look at it and it had got what looked like a lacto film . Sterilised a spoon and and gave it a stir, lots of fizz came up. Are cider yeasts bottom fermenters?

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by Peatbogbrewer
Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:26 pm
Forum: Cider Making
Topic: oh oh
Replies: 4
Views: 3172

oh oh

Got 20l of juice from pressing last weekend. 5 campden tablets were added and the cider yeast chucked in 30 hours later. Doesn't look like its fermenting at all, should i be worried?

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by Peatbogbrewer
Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:16 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Solera!
Replies: 5
Views: 2658

Re: Solera!

Yeah I had one going for about 4-5 years. I had mine in a corny keg and would pull off 1/2 the keg each year and top it off with the new batch. Oh, and I was doing an Oud Bruin; the beer was pretty good. One word of warning though, if you use a keg like I did you need to remember to vent the excess...
by Peatbogbrewer
Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:09 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Solera!
Replies: 5
Views: 2658

Re: Solera!

DaveyT wrote:
Wed Sep 20, 2017 2:04 pm
Sounds like a great idea. I haven't tried it, though.
I'm assuming you've looked at Michael Tonsmiere's website The Mad Fermentationist. I bet he's got goo things to say about it.

David
Yeah I've also got his book coming next week, inspiring stuff!
by Peatbogbrewer
Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:07 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Solera!
Replies: 5
Views: 2658

Solera!

Hiya, Thinking of doing a solera with a brown ale, aged with brett and sour for a year. In a 5 gallon glass carboy. I intend to draw 3 gallon off and sit on fruit, carbonate and drink or whatever, then top up the carboy with more brown ale, or maybe blend it with pale ale. So has anyone else done a ...
by Peatbogbrewer
Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:06 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Lambic/sour
Replies: 5
Views: 1880

Re: Lambic/sour

If you're getting those nasty whiffs from your starter id ditch it, Defo check out mad fermentationist website, the hard work for which are the best to culture from dregs is all done. As for your 1st question i concur with Wilf, use an ale yeast with mid attenuation to ferment originally and the pit...
by Peatbogbrewer
Sat Jun 17, 2017 4:22 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Wit flaked or raw wheat confusion
Replies: 15
Views: 4286

Re: Wit flaked or raw wheat confusion

I was in my local home brew store getting ingredients for my next project which will be a Munich Helles. While there, the owner was telling me that he had obtained a bunch of Lemmon Drop hops which I have never used. Being essentially weak and highly impressionable, I, on a whim, purchased some jus...
by Peatbogbrewer
Tue Jun 13, 2017 6:21 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Wit flaked or raw wheat confusion
Replies: 15
Views: 4286

Re: Wit flaked or raw wheat confusion

Ah so its an american wheat? Goose island website says malts are 2 row and torrified wheat. So maybe looking at maybe 25 wheat malt/25 torrified or flaked/50 pale malt and some cascade type hops. I be the yeast they use isn't a wit. IPA, do you think your delicious wit recipe would be good for some ...
by Peatbogbrewer
Mon Jun 12, 2017 7:58 pm
Forum: Kit Brewing
Topic: Comp Winner.....
Replies: 8
Views: 2802

Re: Comp Winner.....

WalesAles wrote:My Wilko`s IPA just took 2nd prize in the `Homebrew Festival`. :D :D #-o

WA
Well done Wales!
by Peatbogbrewer
Mon Jun 12, 2017 7:56 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Wit flaked or raw wheat confusion
Replies: 15
Views: 4286

Re: Wit flaked or raw wheat confusion

So I'm going to brew a wit, kind of like the goose island 312 american wit, thats no coriander, orange peel etc, but hopped with cascade late in the boil. Ive looked at recipes and seem to see all sorts of stuff going on, particularly about flaked or raw wheat. So whats other people used with succe...
by Peatbogbrewer
Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:43 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Wit flaked or raw wheat confusion
Replies: 15
Views: 4286

Wit flaked or raw wheat confusion

So I'm going to brew a wit, kind of like the goose island 312 american wit, thats no coriander, orange peel etc, but hopped with cascade late in the boil. Ive looked at recipes and seem to see all sorts of stuff going on, particularly about flaked or raw wheat. So whats other people used with succes...
by Peatbogbrewer
Sat Jun 10, 2017 6:22 pm
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: Well done wales ales
Replies: 25
Views: 7012

Re: Well done wales ales

Did you beat the guy in the background Wales? He looks proper pissed.....