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by basswulf
Wed Dec 23, 2020 11:54 pm
Forum: Extract Brewing
Topic: Manns brown ale clone
Replies: 20
Views: 11883

Re: Manns brown ale clone

Pardon me for resuscitating an even older thread (and for coming out of a long posting hibernation to do so). I've recently been enjoying Manns Brown Ale, on for £1 a bottle at my local Morrisons. At 2.8%, it is light weight and, as noted, extremely sweet compared to most beers. I was looking for hi...
by basswulf
Wed Nov 15, 2017 5:48 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: lid on Lid off
Replies: 30
Views: 7710

Re: lid on Lid off

There was a recent Brulosophy experiment where they compared 60 and 180 minute boil times . Efforts were made to end up with the same volume of boiled wort by making the three hour batch large enough to cope with the additional loss due to evaporation and hit the same gravity reading... and the resu...
by basswulf
Wed Nov 15, 2017 5:47 pm
Forum: Hops
Topic: Hop bitterness calculations.
Replies: 8
Views: 3618

Re: Hop bitterness calculations.

Somehow replied to the wrong thread! Whoops!

Wulf
by basswulf
Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:45 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: how low avarage cost of a pint
Replies: 13
Views: 3695

Re: how low avarage cost of a pint

On consumables, it is cheap, even when doing small BIAB batches like I do - perhaps about 1.5kg malt, 20g so hops and half a pack of dried yeast. Easily less than a fiver for 10-12 bottles even allowing for things like bottle caps, sterilising solution. Probably a decent margin less than 50p a pint ...
by basswulf
Thu Sep 07, 2017 5:54 pm
Forum: Brew in a Bag
Topic: any first attempt at a biab advice?
Replies: 20
Views: 9655

Re: any first attempt at a biab advice?

On draining and squeezing: I lift the bag out and let it drain for a bit before putting it in a suitably strong colander above a bowl. I then get on with bringing the wort to the boil, adding hops, starting the timer and so forth. Every few minutes I check to see if more wort has collected in the bo...
by basswulf
Thu Jul 13, 2017 6:04 pm
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: An attempt at counting bubbles from an airlock with sound
Replies: 3
Views: 1272

Re: An attempt at counting bubbles from an airlock with soun

Looks fascinating. If live processing is too demanding or you want to optionally keep data, you could probably store and queue smaller blocks. You could also experiment with using lower resolution recording or lossy compression - the signal to noise ratio looks pretty good so you've probably got a l...
by basswulf
Mon Jan 30, 2017 1:46 pm
Forum: Fermentation
Topic: yeast pitching temperature
Replies: 21
Views: 10473

Re: yeast pitching temperature

My BIAB routine has adding the yeast and starting fermentation the day after making the wort - overnight I'm storing it in a plastic jerry can to cool. I make small batches so use about 5.5g dried yeast each time - slightly overpitching compared to if I was making twenty or so litres with a whole pa...
by basswulf
Mon Aug 22, 2016 3:30 pm
Forum: Brew in a Bag
Topic: Picobrew (not the automatic machine)
Replies: 5
Views: 2559

Re: Picobrew (not the automatic machine)

My stock pot is 13l. I find that I get about 6-7l beer in the bottle if I start out by scaling a recipe to start with 10l water. I use a bag for the grains. Rather than sparging, I let it drain back into the wort and then sit the bag on a colander over a bowl, tipping further liquid into the boil un...
by basswulf
Sun Jun 12, 2016 2:29 pm
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Stainless Stock Pot as Fermentor
Replies: 9
Views: 2248

Re: Stainless Stock Pot as Fermentor

For my small scale BIAB approach, I use the same stockpot for fermenting as I do for mashing and boiling the wort. I did use clingfilm but it is a bit of a pain because of where it lives while fermentation is happening. Recently I've taken to sitting the lid on, slightly askew to allow for the tempe...
by basswulf
Fri May 27, 2016 10:19 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Why are some bottled beers stronger than casked?
Replies: 8
Views: 2881

Re: Why are some bottled beers stronger than casked?

I did a tour at the Wychwood Brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire a couple of years ago and the explanation given by the brewer leading the tour was that pubs want weaker beers so that you can drink more pints before staggering home. It certainly sounds plausible. I suspect that - and the question of carb...
by basswulf
Fri May 20, 2016 8:55 pm
Forum: Hops
Topic: Pellet or Leaf - which do you use and why
Replies: 32
Views: 7776

Re: Pellet or Leaf - which do you use and why

Pellets - easier to store. Since I'm doing short run, stove top BIAB brewing, I don't work through the hops very quickly.

Wulf
by basswulf
Mon May 09, 2016 12:13 pm
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Lowering the OG of a recipe
Replies: 3
Views: 1300

Re: Lowering the OG of a recipe

Is the tweaked recipe going to have less grain or more water? For a ballpark answer, I would imagine that the former would need less tweaking as the hops wouldn't be any more diluted. However, I expect that other factors come into play - for example, if you start with a lower OG, will the yeast goin...
by basswulf
Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:50 am
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: How to decide on a mash temp?
Replies: 17
Views: 3323

Re: How to decide on a mash temp?

Thanks for all the responses. I generally had it at 66 - 68 for close to an hour. Then flicked the switch whilst plugin in the microwave. That sounds like, in effect, you had a mash time of an hour or so. Depending on the rate at which it climbed from that range to 80°C, you will have had a variabl...
by basswulf
Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:22 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Trub experiment (not my own)
Replies: 9
Views: 2180

Re: Turb experiment (not my own)

The ideas are worth a punt though when the potential risk is low. I could have lived with a batch of spoiled beer - as it is, I'm now saving myself time on each brew. All my brewing so far is in the realm of 'British Real Ale' so I suspect the concept is fairly transferable within that range of reci...
by basswulf
Mon Feb 29, 2016 1:28 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Trub experiment (not my own)
Replies: 9
Views: 2180

Re: Turb experiment (not my own)

I've read that Brulosophy article before and I found it fascinating. In fact, I found it so interesting that I decided to try it in my own, small scale BIAB set up. I didn't have the facilities to do a side by side test so just went for it. I transfer the boiled wort into a plastic jerry can to cool...