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TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:23 pm
by trucker5774
You need to read the later posts to find out what this thread is really about!...............I know this is where I am supposed to provide lots of photos and a really special recipe, or perhaps a story of the worst nightmare ever................well not today! I just had to share my feelings with someone else. It has been perhaps the smoothest brew day ever. It has taken 5 hours, start to finish, including steeped hops and all the cleaning!

A basic recipe of pale, crystal and torrified wheat, using northern brewer for a small amount of early bittering with most of the bittering (just 26 IBU) coming from the late additions of cascade. I wasn't 100% confident with the yeast starter I has prepared (TTL) so grabbed an SO4 from the fridge.

Everything went to plan while I did other jobs around the house and practised my guitar. No spillage, no splashing, no taps left open,just a good day :D

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:34 pm
by boingy
Everything went to plan???? That doesn't sound right. Are you sure it was not just a dream? :twisted:

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:20 pm
by leewink
Blimey trucks, be carefull :)

lee the truck :)

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:33 pm
by trucker5774
Now for the twist [-o< this brew is heading for the barrel/bottle today............yes, just 4 days later :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Watch this space :wall

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:36 pm
by trucker5774
This brew has now been bottled/barrelled with an SG of 1014. It is still fermenting and has the same moth feel as a pub pulled pint. Not flat but nothing like the carbonation of a bottled ale. I had a taste .......err about a 1/4 pint to be honest as I was enjoying the taste. This is a cascade dominated brew, which is a follow on to an amarrilo I have just done. I can see how people think these two hops are interchangeable, but the amarrilo i think is far more fruity and summery. Still love cascade though.

So, bottled without any priming, or course, except one bottle which has a few grains of sugar (just to be daring :shock: ) The bottles are PET, not glass...........you didn't think I had actually gone "trucking mad" did you :roll: The barrel was given a squirt of CO2 and the air purged to give a true reflection of how well it carbonates.
I know what you're thinking...........this ale must look like mud [-X Despite being a pale brew, it already has the clarity of a finished brew with a slight protein haze. I have not fined it in any way as this is part of the "experiment". My barrel has a deep bottom and "wastes" the end of a brew, so any fallout will be well below the tap (until I start the tipping tactic at the end)

I intend to be drinking this in about 5 days [-o< . That make the start to finish about 9 days. I don't have any great means of temperature control, so that is the main area that is out of my control. No crash cooling or storage control..........just some basic method and wait and see. If this turns out as well as the early indicators suggest from the samples and previous part experiments, then this will change my brewing massively, with some fine tuning later. If it turns out POO then its cost me about £10 and five hours...............how many hobbies are there with such good value?

I will, of course, be updating as I go.............stay tuned :mrgreen:

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:53 pm
by trucker5774
Well over 3 hours in bottles now...................still no explosions :lol: :lol: :lol: :flip:

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:04 am
by leewink
LOL, i usually do a total ferment (primary and secondary) for 8-9 days, get ya tin 'at ready :)

lee

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:06 am
by trucker5774
leewink wrote:LOL, i usually do a total ferment (primary and secondary) for 8-9 days, get ya tin 'at ready :)

lee
I think I might go tramping to stay out of the way :lol:

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:23 pm
by trucker5774
Call me impatient, but I have just had a tea cup full out of the barrel. If it had been through my beer engine with a sparkler on, it would have been almost perfect (apart from clarity) Remember this is just 6 days from pitching the yeast! The bottles have just started to carb up. Another 4 days and they should be about right. They are, of course, a lot brighter than the sample from the barrel. The bottle with added sugar is slightly ahead of the others. There is even one with a splash of ginger added.

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:37 pm
by Scroogemonster
Nice to see you've used the barrel mate! I've just done AG#3 (Hydes Original Clone) Bottled 8, the rest is going in t'corny at weekend.
I'm off next week. Thinking of doing GW's Guinness extra stout (bottled and matured for 6 months to drink at Christmas)
Speak soon
Kev :wink:

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:46 pm
by trucker5774
Scroogemonster wrote:Nice to see you've used the barrel mate! I've just done AG#3 (Hydes Original Clone) Bottled 8, the rest is going in t'corny at weekend.
I'm off next week. Thinking of doing GW's Guinness extra stout (bottled and matured for 6 months to drink at Christmas)
Speak soon
Kev :wink:
Matured for how long :lol: :lol: :lol: For a minute I thought you said 6 months :shock: It'll never catch on, Kev [-X

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:56 pm
by chris_reboot
great experiment trucker, keep us posted :D

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:00 am
by Scroogemonster
trucker5774 wrote: For a minute I thought you said 6 months :shock: It'll never catch on, Kev [-X
True, more like 6 weeks (if i'm lucky!)

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 10:48 am
by RichardG
[quote="trucker5774"]...It is still fermenting and has the same moth feel as a pub pulled pint. [quote]

What, you like insects in your beer!?!? :lol:

Re: TRUCKERS DELIGHT

Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 10:51 am
by trucker5774
RichardG wrote:
trucker5774 wrote:...It is still fermenting and has the same moth feel as a pub pulled pint.

What, you like insects in your beer!?!? :lol:
I wondered how long it would be before someone spotted that...................think of it as a protein!