15/04/07 Brew on

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Vossy1

15/04/07 Brew on

Post by Vossy1 » Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:01 pm

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Can only mean one thing.....brew on :pink:

1st since December.

False bottom has sorted my stuck mash syndrome!
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subsub

Post by subsub » Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:32 pm

Good luck with it Vossy :D
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SteveD

Post by SteveD » Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:55 pm

Monsieur Le Voss brews again. Let us rejoice! :D What is the brown liquid composed of and what do you propose to add to it in the boiler and the fermenter?
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PieOPah

Post by PieOPah » Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:04 pm

Seems like today has been a popular day for brewing :)
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Post by iowalad » Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:24 pm

Nice to hear you got the gear out again. It has been an banner weekend for brewing.
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Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:29 pm

Keeping an eye on the boil, 30 min to go 8)

More info and piccies to come :wink:

Doing 100% satisfaction, straight out of the book which assumes 75% efficiency.

Final target is 1040 with 46ltrs and I'm already at 1048 with 49ltrs :shock: 8)
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Post by Andy » Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:12 pm

Nice one vossy, good to see you back in the brewers chair 8)
Dan!
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eskimobob

Post by eskimobob » Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:38 pm

Great Vossy - will be good to hear how your HERMS is working.
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Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:41 pm

The hops are added at rolling boil
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The yeast is trying to crawl out of the cup

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And it did

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Yet another case of hops not interfering with a sight tube (98.6g EKG/46ltr)

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HERMS....gotta love it

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I've not brewed for a while and some of the mods I've made to my system worked, and some didn't.

The brew day went without hitch apart from testing my new plate chiller.

The info regarding those tribulations are going into the plate chiller thread.
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prodigal2

Post by prodigal2 » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:19 am

Vossy its great to see you back at it :wink:

Also nice to see you HERMS system being used in anger. 8)

Out of interest how do you keep the hops out of the sight glass? Magic or luck?
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Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:21 am

Out of interest how do you keep the hops out of the sight glass? Magic or luck?
The black elbow at the bottom of the sight tube is open straight to the copper.

I've seen it written many times, not to have a sight tube on your copper, but I have never had any hops go into the ST 8)

Some small pieces do get in, but they always drain out again, and in any case, I reverse flush the ST to clean it through the top elbow so no probs with cleaning :wink: [/quote]
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PieOPah

Post by PieOPah » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:12 am

Surely you could solder a small piece a mesh to act as a filter. I guess though that if your not having problems then why try and find a solution :)
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Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:42 pm

Just sampled this brew 8)

It's dropped from 1048 to 1012 making it roughly 4.7%.
It dropped to 1014 in 2 days, gotta love S04 :wink:

It already tastes gr8 :D and got the thumbs up from 'she that has no name' :cry:

It's mine, all mine
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Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Sat May 19, 2007 2:40 pm

FA cup final day and nop beer in the house...only one thing for it...tap a corny 8)

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Tasting great but still cloudyness issues remain :wink:
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