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by PeeBee
Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:06 pm
Forum: Brewing Liquor
Topic: Local Water
Replies: 0
Views: 925

Local Water

For judging the composition of tap water, there are the reports from the water companies. But tap water may be coming from a source miles away. For judging the (rough) composition of local ground water, or bore/well water, you can reach for a geological map (before getting a proper analysis!). I wou...
by PeeBee
Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:53 pm
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Pyknometers (what hydrometers emulate) revisited!
Replies: 53
Views: 65521

Re: Pyknometers (what hydrometers emulate) revisited!

Done! Works too! I'll start off another thread with links to the spreadsheets ... (later!).
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by PeeBee
Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:00 pm
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Pyknometers (what hydrometers emulate) revisited!
Replies: 53
Views: 65521

Re: Pyknometers (what hydrometers emulate) revisited!

So far ... A slimmed down spreadsheet. Or spreadsheets (I've kept one free of the "read SG off the weighing scales" to use with smaller bottles; like 25ml). All the "for curiosity only" stuff is gone, and I'm using the "Pyknometer with SG" method, i.e. no temperature compensation to phart about with...
by PeeBee
Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:08 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Beers (late 19th Century and 20th Century)
Replies: 142
Views: 3440195

Re: Beers (late 19th Century and 20th Century)

I've always used the "Views" counter to determine if a thread was maintaining interest. I was getting quite chuffed that this thread was going to hit 20,000 views by its second anniversary (March). In the last 3-4 weeks its shot to well over 100,000 views! The forum is having a little bit of trouble...
by PeeBee
Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Pyknometers (what hydrometers emulate) revisited!
Replies: 53
Views: 65521

Re: Pyknometers (what hydrometers emulate) revisited!

I've only just read this thread and found it very interesting, I look forward to the next instalment :D Thank you. It might be "very interesting", but in returning to it there are great chunks that are utterly baffling. I'm just trying to straighten them out. (When the author is finding the work ba...
by PeeBee
Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:56 am
Forum: Brewing Equipment
Topic: Pyknometers (what hydrometers emulate) revisited!
Replies: 53
Views: 65521

Re: Pyknometers (what hydrometers emulate) revisited!

Ha! ... You think I've forgotten this little project? Well, I haven't! So ... What the hell was I getting up to? I think I trying on a bit of appeasement? "Adapting" the sample bottle to have a virtual capacity so the operation was much the same as a hydrometer. Maybe? Stuff and nonsense! Just ditch...
by PeeBee
Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:50 am
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Water treatment
Replies: 4
Views: 1041

Re: Water treatment

All water that goes in the top, not what comes out of the bottom. That's a particularly good, concise, explanation! I think your problem with "references" is because you're looking in the wrong place. You want the meaning of words (in English) not someone's opinion of what it should mean. "Total" i...
by PeeBee
Wed Dec 20, 2023 1:06 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: "No-Chill" Cubes
Replies: 51
Views: 135028

Re: "No-Chill" Cubes

... I find the whole no chill thing really interesting when it gets to hop stands and end of boil hop scenarios. You just can't work any of it out. I think you sort of reduce final hops and guesstimate the IBU as it cools, or maybe you have to use a spider and make sure it's all out. 'Tis a bit a p...
by PeeBee
Tue Dec 19, 2023 8:19 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: "No-Chill" Cubes
Replies: 51
Views: 135028

Re: "No-Chill" Cubes

Just jumping in on this discussion because I'm considering no chill just to be more green. Why the need to bother with these cubes? Are there any ill effects of chilling to 80 (for whirlpool), and then sending the wort straight to my plastic fermentation bin overnight? I have a fridge to ferment in...
by PeeBee
Mon Dec 18, 2023 3:08 am
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: "No-Chill" Cubes
Replies: 51
Views: 135028

Re: "No-Chill" Cubes

Dead yeast is supposed to be excellent nutrition! But it can taste of poo (or Marmite, burnt rubber, etc., etc., but none have the same impact as "poo"). I'm actually experiencing it at the moment. The beer's almost finished, but recently, ever now and again, my mouth is filled with an awful flavou...
by PeeBee
Sat Dec 16, 2023 4:53 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: "No-Chill" Cubes
Replies: 51
Views: 135028

Re:

LeeH wrote:
Sat Dec 16, 2023 11:31 am
Is it though? ...
Looking good?
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The yeast ("West Yorkshire") chucks the standard Tilt hydrometer about abit. I take heart from those "fresh wort kits". It's how I dared go to four days this time. Four years next time? :---)
by PeeBee
Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:08 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: "No-Chill" Cubes
Replies: 51
Views: 135028

Re: "No-Chill" Cubes

More daring with my cube this time. I went four days before putting the yeast in (the WYeast pack was five months past its "Best Before" date. Only 7% vitality according to the starter builder. Took three days to build it back up (not something to recommend, that's possible 93% (93 billion) dead, po...
by PeeBee
Thu Dec 14, 2023 3:23 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Beers (late 19th Century and 20th Century)
Replies: 142
Views: 3440195

Re: Beers (late 19th Century and 20th Century)

Here's an interesting one. Looking for methods or ingredients to use in places of Ron Pattinson's "generic" (???) "caramel nnn SRM" additions and came across: https://youtu.be/_U3q4gUxW1g Obviously not molasses, but it's also obviously some peoples' interpretation of "molasses". But could such a tec...
by PeeBee
Mon Dec 11, 2023 1:41 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Beers (late 19th Century and 20th Century)
Replies: 142
Views: 3440195

Re: Beers (late 19th Century and 20th Century)

Not much in this to help understand sugar in beer, but it does help appreciate the subject of sugar in its wider sense: History of sugar (Wikipedia)

How England became the 'sweetshop of Europe' (University of Oxford)
by PeeBee
Mon Dec 11, 2023 1:17 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Beers (late 19th Century and 20th Century)
Replies: 142
Views: 3440195

Re: Beers (late 19th Century and 20th Century)

Oooo ... there was something I didn't include in my sugar summary above: The LAW!

Ron Pattinson covers that with: British beer legislation 1802 - 1899 (barclayperkins.blogspot.com)

That appears to exclude any UK use of sugar in beer for most of the first half of the 19th C.