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- Tue Mar 29, 2016 8:02 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Band-Aid Smell
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3319
Re: Band-Aid Smell
Thanks all for your feedback. I was also unsure if the high sparge temperature alone was enough to cause the off flavour, but its a recipe I have brewed before, in the same vessels and with the same procedure, so it was all I could pinpoint. I use starsan as a steriliser, and I've had no problems u...
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:52 am
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Avoiding foaming from corny tap
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2334
Re: Avoiding foaming from corny tap
I'm not very fond of having great coils of beer line in my beer fridge, nor of depressurising and repressurising my cornies whenever I draw a pint. Just wondering if there any other ways of reducing the pressure at the tap to stop the foam? Some sort of counter-pressure mechanism, or expanding cham...
- Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:05 pm
- Forum: Braumeister, Grainfather and other One-Pot Brewing Systems
- Topic: BM and efficiency
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7281
Re: BM and efficiency
Danwix said Does anyone do anything different or have any tips on improving sparging?[/quote] Lift the malt tube onto the stirrup. LEAVE THE TWO TOP FILTERS IN PLACE and then very slowly pour your sparge liquor evenly over the filters ( 6 litres ). When you have finished the sparge DO NOT remove the...
- Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:47 pm
- Forum: Kit Brewing
- Topic: Wheat beer and add ons
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2059
Re: Wheat beer and add ons
[quote="WalesAlOMG, the lid has been off the FV for 30 mins whilst I have been on JBK faffing about.
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Why was it on in the first place
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Why was it on in the first place
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:45 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Wanted - A slightly sweeter stout recipe
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1673
Re: Wanted - A slightly sweeter stout recipe
As the title suggests, I'm after a recipe for a stout that's not quite as strong as an Imperial Stout, but maybe up around the 6 or 7 percent mark. I want it a shade sweeter than normal, but I don't yet know how to engineer that variable into the recipe. Any help welcome. :) How about Graham Wheele...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 5:25 pm
- Forum: Braumeister, Grainfather and other One-Pot Brewing Systems
- Topic: Braumeister timer not stopping at the end of a mash step
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2025
Re: Braumeister timer not stopping at the end of a mash step
I have been using my Braumeister 20L 2015 model for about 9 months successfully. Today whilst mashing - the timer does not stop at the end of a mash step but continues. My step profile was 20mins at 63 degrees followed by 35mins at 73 degrees. At the end of the 63 degrees the screen went on to the ...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 1:03 pm
- Forum: Kit Brewing
- Topic: Ashbeck water
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5940
Re: Ashbeck water
I thought starsan kill all things except brewing yeast if not whats the point of sanitising if the surface is still contaminated Wild yeasts will be quickly crowded out by the pitch of healthy brewers yeast so aren't per say such an issue. Bacterial infections however, multiply much more quickly so...
- Sat Mar 12, 2016 4:51 pm
- Forum: Kit Brewing
- Topic: Ashbeck water
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5940
Re: Ashbeck water
I bough a 5 litre of ashbeck water 3 weeks ago and added 8 ml of star san. I have done this couple of years ago when first brewing.infact I still have a bottle in the shed wich is still clear, however with it being so long in shed I decided to buy a new 5 litre ashbeck water which I did. But now it...
- Wed Mar 09, 2016 12:25 pm
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Getting Witbier pale
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2964
Re: Getting Witbier pale
It should bottom out at 1.006 - 1.004 Fermenting at 20 celciusandyCo wrote:Ipa , can I ask for your experiences with the blanche yeast.
I pitched Sunday, OG 1050, nice krausen within 8 hours , day 2 krausen dropped hydro reading 1030 ...seem about right ?
Andy
IPA
- Wed Mar 09, 2016 8:46 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Bottling directly from fermenter
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2676
Re: Bottling directly from fermenter
Here we go again :!: Two buckets two taps one length of silicone hose and a Little Bottler. Job done! . This is the same procedure I follow. Bottling is much less messy, and far quicker than priming each bottle separately. Priming sugar boiled with a bit of water and added to the bottling bucket, t...
- Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:59 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Bottling directly from fermenter
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2676
Re: Bottling directly from fermenter
Here we go again
Two buckets two taps one length of silicone hose and a Little Bottler.
Job done!
Two buckets two taps one length of silicone hose and a Little Bottler.
Job done!
- Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:54 am
- Forum: Dispensing
- Topic: Sterilising bottles
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2239
- Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:26 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Hop poles and planning permission
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1747
Re: Hop poles and planning permission
Well I've just checked- you don't need planning permission to erect a flag pole to fly the United Flag (it's only the Union Jack on a boat). And you don't need PP to erect a flag pole in your grounds unless you're in a controlled area. And sometimes wild hops do grow up the wire stays stabilising t...
- Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:24 pm
- Forum: Beer Recipes
- Topic: Double Diamond
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9852
Re: Double Diamond
The topic this evening at the pub was beer that we miss one old gent told us his was double diamond he has a 70 birthday coming up later in the year and we would love to give him some bottles of it as a present does any have a recipe of this beer from a age long gone #-o There is a good recipe in G...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:57 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Starting with beer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 923
Re: Starting with beer
So, as a complete novice, you might expect that I'm going to ask some pretty stupid questions. So here goes:- Is there anything stopping you from starting the whole brewing process with beer instead of water? You make you first batch of lovely cleared bright beer (with yeasts and stuff removed by c...