Acolyte's Arse 03-06-08

[Oggy' Bar]

Tell me about it. Brewshed, Wall (about 5' high now), Garden in general, front Garden....and so on

YES ! GREAT makes me feel normal.......except of course for my preoccupation with the exit end of the alimentary canal

[Wez]

Tell me about it. Brewshed, Wall (about 5' high now), Garden in general, front Garden....and so on

YES ! GREAT makes me feel normal.......except of course for my preoccupation with the exit end of the alimentary canal

Ah well Oggy, shit happens

[Oggy' Bar]

Ah well Oggy, shit happens

You too Wez eh.....Bummer

[macleanb]

Perhaps you should get one of those wristbands that they look for in hospital emergency rooms "Please check for humulone, lupulone and alchohol poisoning - in that order!"

[SteveD]

Improvised temp control in the shed worked ok until it warmed up over the last few days with good weather. The fermentation must have hit 21-22c at its warmest, cooling down to under 20c at night. I had a probe taped firmly to the outside of the FV, and one loose in the air next to it. There was a 2c difference at the height of fermentation. Now it's got really warm. The Fermentation is virtually over, but not wishing to tempt the unholy trinity of *diacetyl, fusel alcohol, and *amyl acetate, any further I rigged up my tall larder fridge where it stands with the ATC800 to cool the whole lot down and make ready for kegging. I didn't want rig it for fermentation initially as it was pissing with rain. The control box and the black spaghetti is all under a bin bag to the right side of the fridge - reasonably protected if it should rain.


The fermentation went fine...too fine. Nottingham was a bit too enthusiastic, and has finally called it a day, more or less, at 1007. Ah well, another dry one. Yes, it does attenuate thoroughly, but 1009 -1012 would have been nice. Instead I have nearly 6% summer fall-over juice

*only in excess, before you all start A little bit is nice.