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- Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:00 pm
- Forum: Dispensing
- Topic: Storing empty bottles
- Replies: 11
- Views: 209
Re: Storing empty bottles
I too have noticed the “film” on the sides of the bottles, albeit not all bottles. Maybe there’s some which have a surface which is more susceptible to yeast adhering to the inside? And then there are the bottles returned by friends which not only have they not rinsed -despite being asked to! - but ...
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 3:39 pm
- Forum: Yeast
- Topic: How much yeast for 5L batch
- Replies: 2
- Views: 64
Re: How much yeast for 5L batch
There are numerous yeast calculators out there on the web. One common thing you will find is that they recommend much larger yeast pitches than the dried yeast manufacturers say their products are suitable for (e.g. where the packet may say "up to 25L", the "calculator may suggest 2 or more packets ...
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 6:31 pm
- Forum: Braumeister, Grainfather and other One-Pot Brewing Systems
- Topic: Sparge Boilers Grainfather versus Bulldog
- Replies: 4
- Views: 106
Re: Sparge Boilers Grainfather versus Bulldog
Or buy something like this https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwjCxt2ExIDvAhXE6-0KHerUCvkYABAGGgJkZw&sig=AOD64_3xMczkDDKHbo7oUXL_RfVpEBvO4w&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwjw6tSExIDvAhWOSsAKHZrTDQAQ9aACegQIAxBT&adurl= and one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deluxe-Pyrex-Stain-Resistant-Measuring/dp/B...
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:53 pm
- Forum: Braumeister, Grainfather and other One-Pot Brewing Systems
- Topic: Sparge Boilers Grainfather versus Bulldog
- Replies: 4
- Views: 106
Re: Sparge Boilers Grainfather versus Bulldog
What are the relative costs? Before I went GF, I did a number of BIAB brews in a £65 tea urn off flea-bay upgraded with a bazooka filter and an improved tap, both from MM. This has been subsequently re-purposed as a sparge water heater. OK, no in-built thermometer, but certainly does the job! It did...
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 3:02 pm
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: FUBAR bitter brew day
- Replies: 30
- Views: 758
Re: FUBAR bitter brew day
For the 5L minikegs, I'd advise no more than 11g sugar for priming, less if you only want a light/low level of carbonation.
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 9:53 am
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Recreating Boddingtons
- Replies: 155
- Views: 30831
Re: Recreating Boddingtons
That's interesting. I recall visiting Manchester during my A Level years (checking out UMIST's potential as a place to study) and enjoying the Boddingtons (this would've been about 1982). I've had it in recent years and can't say I like it. I also find that several pints has a similar effect to drin...
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:45 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Brewing lager from Wheeler/Protz European Beers at Home...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 540
Re: Brewing lager from Wheeler/Protz European Beers at Home...
At present, you could probably lager in the corner of your garage. Or even outside!
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:43 pm
- Forum: Yeast
- Topic: Nottingham Yeast query
- Replies: 29
- Views: 770
Re: Nottingham Yeast query
Also, no good if you are planning to bottle condition.
Usual advice is to check gravity 3 days in a row. If you get the same reading each time, you're good to bottle.
If you're using a pressure barrel or a keg, it's less of a concern as you can release excess pressure from those.
Usual advice is to check gravity 3 days in a row. If you get the same reading each time, you're good to bottle.
If you're using a pressure barrel or a keg, it's less of a concern as you can release excess pressure from those.
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:37 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Erm hello I'm Jim
- Replies: 8
- Views: 323
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:51 pm
- Forum: Extract Brewing
- Topic: Our first Extract Brew
- Replies: 13
- Views: 342
Re: Our first Extract Brew
Good luck. Hope it works out well. 

- Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:19 pm
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Historic Porter's, Stouts and Milds - Brewing Methods
- Replies: 16
- Views: 636
Re: Historic Porter's, Stouts and Milds - Brewing Methods
Oh and it was messy. I bottled from the cask, but I was impatient: I pierced the shive, but didn't wait long enough before I tapped it and the result was a shower of beer and yeast out of the shive all over the ceiling, floor, surroundings and me! porter shower.jpg It took me a while to clear up!
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:09 pm
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Historic Porter's, Stouts and Milds - Brewing Methods
- Replies: 16
- Views: 636
Re: Historic Porter's, Stouts and Milds - Brewing Methods
I tasted my 1850 porter again at the weekend. It is about 4 months since I casked/bottled it and it certainly has a lusciousness that I attribute to Chevallier, but also a reasonable level of alcohol (5.8% ABV or so), but it also has significant roast malt derived bitterness (almost certainly from t...
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 5:42 pm
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Historic Porter's, Stouts and Milds - Brewing Methods
- Replies: 16
- Views: 636
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:25 pm
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Historic Porter's, Stouts and Milds - Brewing Methods
- Replies: 16
- Views: 636
Re: Historic Porter's, Stouts and Milds - Brewing Methods
If you have any of your 1850 Porter left, I'd be very interested to try it. Mine was made in Sept/Oct last year (most was put into a "pin" with the remainder bottled - all on October 10th) and I am about to bottle the "pin" as I doubt I can get through 36 pints before it turns nasty. I'd be very hap...
- Wed Feb 03, 2021 6:35 pm
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Mashing non-diastatic malt
- Replies: 10
- Views: 547