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by IPA
Sun Feb 02, 2025 2:48 pm
Forum: Yeast
Topic: Another question about yeast starters/slurry
Replies: 26
Views: 1359

Re: Another question about yeast starters/slurry

Have you ever wondered how your bottled beer is conditioning ? For many years I used to use a PET bottle for the the first bottle and by squeezing it over a number of days I got a rough idea of how carbonisation was progressing. I now have a far more accurate way of knowing. One of these. https://ww...
by IPA
Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:28 am
Forum: Yeast
Topic: Another question about yeast starters/slurry
Replies: 26
Views: 1359

Re: Another question about yeast starters/slurry

If it's any help, my method is taken from IPA's. I sanitise a jug, then scoop half a litre or so from the top of the fermenting beer, including the krausen. Tip it into a kilner jar and put it in the 'fridge. It carries on fermenting, even at 4°C. The kilner jar allows exces gas to be released as n...
by IPA
Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:57 pm
Forum: Yeast
Topic: Another question about yeast starters/slurry
Replies: 26
Views: 1359

Re: Another question about yeast starters/slurry

Hi Ian, I like that as well. So you just plunge the wine thief in through the top of the fermenter and you should get some yeast with it? Have you tried drawing it out through a tap at the bottom of the fermenter instead of the wine thief? If you take the sample via the tap it is difficult to sanit...
by IPA
Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:29 pm
Forum: Yeast
Topic: Another question about yeast starters/slurry
Replies: 26
Views: 1359

Re: Another question about yeast starters/slurry

As promised here is my method of saving yeast 36 hours into the ferment take a sample of the fermenting wort and almost fill a swingtop fitted with an airlock using one of these. https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/fermtech-wine-thief?srsltid=AfmBOorXw2gYtQqChoI4Hr_aqX6y8KU7oRw-7zFxosQFb5e5eGZGp...
by IPA
Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:22 am
Forum: Yeast
Topic: Another question about yeast starters/slurry
Replies: 26
Views: 1359

Re: Another question about yeast starters/slurry

Tomorrow I will post pictures of my method. Dead simple. Don't worry about cell counting. I am still using yeast that I bought ten years ago. I have revived yeast from bottles of beer that were thirty years old and several of them are now in BrewLab's yeast bank.
by IPA
Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:54 am
Forum: Commercial Brews
Topic: Really Bad Beer
Replies: 34
Views: 2548

Re: Really Bad Beer

"Definitely, though this particular brewery are only using a 100 litre system."

How can they expect to make money brewing that amount of beer even if it was good ?
They must have a lot of 120 litre fermentation vessels !
I brew 60 litre batches and that is for personal consumption :D
by IPA
Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:52 am
Forum: Commercial Brews
Topic: Really Bad Beer
Replies: 34
Views: 2548

Re: Really Bad Beer

A young guy set up a micro in a village near to us a couple of years ago. How it is still in business amazes me. He produces four or five beers which if you were blindfolded you could not tell which was which. The only difference is the colour and the label. He is not alone. Over the years I have ta...
by IPA
Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:15 am
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Kegerator - where to driil for CO2 line
Replies: 4
Views: 969

Re: Kegerator - where to driil for CO2 line

Going to set up CO2 line to keg this weekend through the side of a Blomberg fridge/freezer. Obviously concerned not to hit a cooling line so would appreciate any guidance on reducing risk if at all possible. For example, does anyone know whether the lines are generally sat centrally or more to the ...
by IPA
Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:50 am
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Schlosser Altbier
Replies: 9
Views: 2244

Re: Schlosser Altbier

Here is what Graham said.
ZUM UERIGE.
The finest of all the ALT beers brewed in the Cranky Fellow bar in Düsseldorf
25 litres
Munich malt 3500 grs
Vienna malt. 1400 grs
Crystal malt 510 grs

Saaz hops 115 grs at start of boil

ABV. 5%
EBU. 48
Colour 45 EBC
by IPA
Sun Jan 12, 2025 8:48 am
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Schlosser Altbier
Replies: 9
Views: 2244

Re: Schlosser Altbier

A friend has just brought me a bottle of this from Germany, and I'm impressed! Best bottled beer I've had for a while, so there's a challenge straight away, got to recreate this. Absolutely no idea where to start, anybody brewed an all grain altbier from scratch?? Graham has a recipe for an Alt Bee...
by IPA
Mon Jan 06, 2025 8:58 am
Forum: Fermentation
Topic: Fermenting in the kettle on all the trub?
Replies: 17
Views: 4013

Re: Fermenting in the kettle on all the trub?

Most interesting.
Thanks for sharing the result

Ian
by IPA
Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:17 am
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Plum Saison
Replies: 4
Views: 1534

Re: Plum Saison

Eric wrote:
Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:56 pm
Might be in NZ.
Well spotted Eric I didn't notice the "Mid" in front of Canterbury :oops: :oops:
by IPA
Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:51 am
Forum: Beer Recipes
Topic: Plum Saison
Replies: 4
Views: 1534

Re: Plum Saison

If the tree is nearing harvest at the beginning of January then it is not a plum tree 🤔🤔🤔
by IPA
Mon Dec 30, 2024 8:33 am
Forum: Fermentation
Topic: Help Please
Replies: 5
Views: 959

Re: Help Please

Cheers Jim Stays at 20c mostly throughout the day, And rises to 21 for a while in the evening. Even during the night does not fall below 20c, Which is good i suppose. And the bubbles will vary between 1min 30s to 2 mins. Cheers Dan Never mind about counting bubbles in the airlock.What does the surf...
by IPA
Sun Dec 29, 2024 9:21 am
Forum: Commercial Brews
Topic: Where and when will it end ?
Replies: 8
Views: 2122

Re: Where and when will it end ?

Dont panic double diamonds coming back ,just need watneys red barrel to return and it'll be the 70's all over again with fizzy megaswill available everywhere. Then it will be like here. Usually two choices. Bog standard Eurofizz @ 5% abv and a darker version @ 5.5 % abv. Prices per pint 6€ and 7€ r...