02/03/10 - Amber Ale
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mysterio
Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
LOL yeah I realised that while I was making it... especially the shake down at the end.
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adm
Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
That sounds like a good grist, Mysti.......and as you probably know, I'm a big fan of the Nelsons myself.....
Yeah. That'll be nice.
Yeah. That'll be nice.
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mysterio
Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
Bit worried about this one, the fermentation never really looked impressive. There is a thick layer of yeast but it never really bloomed out like this yeast usually does.
Took a gravity reading yesterday which showed around 1.030. Which is slow. Could just be because it's in a cool room, about 16C on average. Or it could be the yeast was stressed from the previous ferment. I might just stick to fresh yeast from now on instead of messing around with top cropping.
Although my SNPA with top cropped yeast fermented out fine in the same room...
Took a gravity reading yesterday which showed around 1.030. Which is slow. Could just be because it's in a cool room, about 16C on average. Or it could be the yeast was stressed from the previous ferment. I might just stick to fresh yeast from now on instead of messing around with top cropping.
Although my SNPA with top cropped yeast fermented out fine in the same room...
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mysterio
Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
Well I was paranoid over nothing, it fermented out fine. Dry hopped it with 50g of Nelsons today.
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196osh
Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
Will this be going to the Glasgow homebrew event?
Sounds pretty damn good.
Sounds pretty damn good.
Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
If you have seen Shazam on iPhone/Android you'll see how a quick burst of sound can be fingerprinted against a range of registered songs. Clever for getting track name of something you don't know, crap if you want something you've recorded to sound good...Can someone tell me how youtube can always recognise that i'm putting copyrighted music on??
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mysterio
Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
I thought it was something like that.
The beer will be at the event if it tastes OK.
The beer will be at the event if it tastes OK.
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mysterio
Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
Bottled this today. Didn't have the best aroma out of the FV, kind of like overripe apples with a hint of rubber. I don't know, I don't have the best feeling about this one. I think I left it in the FV too long... 3 weeks. The beer tasted fine but I wasn't getting any Nelson flavour or aroma ... !
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Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
Fingers crossed a few weeks in bottle and a bit of carbonation will sort it!
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Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
btw... how did this turn out for colour? Amber enough?
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mysterio
Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
Yeah nice and amber/red. Not too dark not too pale. You could taste the chocolate malt.
You're right hopefully a few weeks in the bottle should sort 'er out
You're right hopefully a few weeks in the bottle should sort 'er out
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Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
So 15.4 SRM = about 30 EBC yeah? I'm just having thoughts of an Amber Amarillo (Amberillo) brew with some Amber malt and a little Choc Wheat Malt for bumping up the colour to about 34 EBC 
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oblivious
Re: 02/03/10 - Amber Ale
Hopefully it will come around in the bottlemysterio wrote:Bottled this today. Didn't have the best aroma out of the FV, kind of like overripe apples with a hint of rubber. I don't know, I don't have the best feeling about this one. I think I left it in the FV too long... 3 weeks. The beer tasted fine but I wasn't getting any Nelson flavour or aroma ... !