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by guypettigrew
Wed Mar 01, 2023 4:16 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Phosphoric acid - supply
Replies: 57
Views: 9347

Re: Phosphoric acid - supply

How's it going with the AMS, MashBag? I am not 'up' on water chemistry. Eric sorted me out. The buttery taste, wasn't the AMS, it was the brewing salts (DWB) addition. I was using too much. That too is now bang on. I adjust my liquor (for hoppy IPA) to 80ppm alk, as per Murphy's guides. Where on ea...
by guypettigrew
Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:28 am
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Phosphoric acid - supply
Replies: 57
Views: 9347

Re: Phosphoric acid - supply

I use and can recommend AMS from maltmiller (it is from Murphy's)... unless there a reason for phosphoric acid? How's it going with the AMS, MashBag? Looking at your posts on the subject from September/October last year you didn't seem too impressed. You noted a 'buttery' and 'mineral' taste in the...
by guypettigrew
Sat Feb 25, 2023 11:07 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Beers (late 19th Century and 20th Century)
Replies: 142
Views: 3440120

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

MashBag wrote:
Thu Feb 23, 2023 9:11 am
Tbh I thought invert sugar was just sugar, water & an ammount of acid. I use citric (1g/1kg/1L off the top)

I also make a jar full of viscous uninverted chocolate syrup for bait from just white granulated.
Good grief. You have time to go fishing?!

Guy
by guypettigrew
Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:15 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: An uninspiring brew
Replies: 19
Views: 3886

Re: An uninspiring brew

Seems to have worked. Adding the Fuggle hops to the keg has livened up the taste of the beer.

Guy
by guypettigrew
Wed Feb 15, 2023 1:33 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: An uninspiring brew
Replies: 19
Views: 3886

Re: An uninspiring brew

I use the little hop canisters on fishing wire. No mess apart from taking the top off and shaking into a bin. Dip tubes and poppets block easily. Mine's a King Keg. I use a cask hop filter on the back of the tap. Stops the tap blocking. But then it should, shouldn't it, as that's what they're desig...
by guypettigrew
Wed Feb 15, 2023 10:32 am
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: An uninspiring brew
Replies: 19
Views: 3886

Re: An uninspiring brew

I have on occasion had a brew that needs fine tuning. As an alternative I've make up a hop concentrate and added that. Better flavour profiling imo & never fancied the mess of dry hopping. Plus I bottle all my brews, so it feels like another murky step to be cleaned up first. I suppose I could dry ...
by guypettigrew
Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:39 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: An uninspiring brew
Replies: 19
Views: 3886

An uninspiring brew

On February 1st I brewed a fairly straightforward beer. It was 91% Maris Otter, 3.5% pale crystal malt, 5.5% Vienna malt. 43 IBU from 28% Azacca, 22% Amarillo and 22% White Grape hops, with another 25g of White Grape in after the boil to make 100%. Fermented well and was kegged at day 6, which was 8...
by guypettigrew
Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:58 am
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Dry Hopping - How much
Replies: 17
Views: 3539

Re: Dry Hopping - How much

Eric wrote:
Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:10 pm
Hardy and Hanson is HH from Brewlabs and the yeast in mine is B4.
How do I find these codes, please Eric? None of the yeasts, including the East Midlands yeast supplied by Brewlab, which could well be the Hardy and Hanson strain, have any codes I can see.

Thanks.

Guy
by guypettigrew
Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:40 am
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Dry Hopping - How much
Replies: 17
Views: 3539

Re: Dry Hopping - How much

Ages ago I used to dry hop all my beers in the cask. Well, King Keg, actually!

Haven't done it for a long time, don't know why. A beer I brewed a few days ago will be ready for kegging very soon. Perhaps I'll give it a go, having read this thread. I always used about 20g of dry hops for 23L.

Guy
by guypettigrew
Thu Jan 26, 2023 8:26 pm
Forum: Yeast
Topic: WLP001 'Next Gen'
Replies: 28
Views: 4451

Re: WLP001 'Next Gen'

One for Eric!

The Brewlabs yeast profiles talk about low and high mineral worts.

What does this mean, please?

Thanks.

Guy
by guypettigrew
Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:29 am
Forum: Yeast
Topic: WLP001 'Next Gen'
Replies: 28
Views: 4451

Re: WLP001 'Next Gen'

Amazing! Thanks Rob.

Guy
by guypettigrew
Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:21 am
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Advice on spectacularly bad mash conversion
Replies: 13
Views: 3092

Re: Advice on spectacularly bad mash conversion

I’ve just brewed a saison (actually, Malt Miller’s Dupont). The outcome was a staggeringly low mash conversion: 47%. The result was 6 litres less saison than expected. It was all grain, all the grist mashed together, at 63C, in a RIMS system, so it maintained that temperature. It was 1½ degrees und...
by guypettigrew
Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:25 pm
Forum: Yeast
Topic: WLP001 'Next Gen'
Replies: 28
Views: 4451

Re: WLP001 'Next Gen'

Back on the subject at hand, reading this web page there does seem to be some reasoning behind the new packaging: https://www.whitelabs.com/news-update-detail?id=93 we have seen that yeast stays highly viable (over 90% on average) for up to 7 months from date of production release! With double the ...
by guypettigrew
Mon Jan 16, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: Yeast
Topic: WLP001 'Next Gen'
Replies: 28
Views: 4451

Re: WLP001 'Next Gen'

This a really interesting one. If WL were producing both types of packaging then I think that the smaller volume pouches would be more popular on a price basis. Trouble is, the only way we can buy 001 is now in the new, larger packaging. As for pricing, what has been said above doesn't really stack...
by guypettigrew
Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:10 am
Forum: Yeast
Topic: WLP001 'Next Gen'
Replies: 28
Views: 4451

WLP001 'Next Gen'

In a post back in November I queried the price rise for the 'Next Gen' liquid yeasts from Whitelabs. A big price rise 'justified' by a big increase in the number of yeast cells per sachet. One of the selling points was this number of cells is the accepted commercial pitch rate and ensures a quick st...