I decided to go with 30g of Styrian Goldings for a week in the secondary, thrown in a muslin with some shot glasses for weights and attached by a thread (all boiled) to retrieve them with:
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Smelling nice, clearing well, tastes clean, but obviously still as a millpond as final yeast drops out in secondary and dryhops are absorbed prior to racking to a Corni towards end of the week.
I wasn't patient enough with this, moved it off the yeast cake too early and it consequently tested today at 1014, but I hope it will still produce a nice drink.
I wasn't patient enough with this, moved it off the yeast cake too early and it consequently tested today at 1014, but I hope it will still produce a nice drink.
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Decided to rack to keg tonight after a week in secondary with the goldings hops - pleasantly surprised to see it had dropped to 1012 in the end and was looking pretty clear.
From back to front in my officewery:
Pint of Silver Adder waiting to be drunk, bag of glucose, Fixby waiting to be transferred from secondary, US Steam in wine fermenter, Crusader in primary bucket, Corni full of CO2, pub CO2, swingtops, tubing.
Transfer went very smoothly under the CO2 blanket but I really don't like racking using tubing from the tap and will go back to the usual swan-neck siphon once again I think.
Filled the Corni nicely just below gas inlet. Purged a couple of times with CO2 then put under 2lbs of pressure and left in same place as fermentation for a week before transfer to shed. Hop bag huge and swollen, good smell and the beer tastes very positive at this stage. Fingers crossed then.
Had a bit of a cock up at the bottling stage and only managed to fill half the bottles I had planned (1/2 tsp glucose prime each) before juggling the tipping of the bucket and the pipes and bottles got the better of me and I cut my losses and let the bucket down, sloshing the remaining beer in with the yeast - ah well - chucked it.
(NB. Obviously the radiator in this room is turned off and the fermenters are usually out of direct sunlight. The beer line on the Corni isn't full of beer - that's iodophor stain!)
From back to front in my officewery:
Pint of Silver Adder waiting to be drunk, bag of glucose, Fixby waiting to be transferred from secondary, US Steam in wine fermenter, Crusader in primary bucket, Corni full of CO2, pub CO2, swingtops, tubing.
Transfer went very smoothly under the CO2 blanket but I really don't like racking using tubing from the tap and will go back to the usual swan-neck siphon once again I think.
Filled the Corni nicely just below gas inlet. Purged a couple of times with CO2 then put under 2lbs of pressure and left in same place as fermentation for a week before transfer to shed. Hop bag huge and swollen, good smell and the beer tastes very positive at this stage. Fingers crossed then.
Had a bit of a cock up at the bottling stage and only managed to fill half the bottles I had planned (1/2 tsp glucose prime each) before juggling the tipping of the bucket and the pipes and bottles got the better of me and I cut my losses and let the bucket down, sloshing the remaining beer in with the yeast - ah well - chucked it.
(NB. Obviously the radiator in this room is turned off and the fermenters are usually out of direct sunlight. The beer line on the Corni isn't full of beer - that's iodophor stain!)
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This has been sitting in the fermenting room (office) for a week now and is now ready to go out to the shed for at least three weeks before a snifter. I'm going to leave it under just 2lbs of pressure to keep it straight, then ultimately force carbonate at around 12lbs for ten days prior to drinking.
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This Fixby spent a week indoors before moving outside for a further three weeks, the last week of which has been spent under 5lbs pressure.
I went out this morning to change the gas lines around with a John Guest fitting to accomodate my second kegged brew, the Crusader. Anyway, as the Fixby had been cold conditioning for 24hrs short of three weeks I thought I'd take a look - pouring away a pint then serving a half up in a glass.
On the plus side it's coming along nicely. On the down side it's going to be 'coming along' for some time yet. It's a very pleasing golden colour, has a great hop aroma and the mouth feel is perfect for me. However, it's still rather green and has yet to clear. Ah well, at least the half was very drinkable and much easier on the throat than the eye - another couple of weeks before I tinker again though.
I went out this morning to change the gas lines around with a John Guest fitting to accomodate my second kegged brew, the Crusader. Anyway, as the Fixby had been cold conditioning for 24hrs short of three weeks I thought I'd take a look - pouring away a pint then serving a half up in a glass.
On the plus side it's coming along nicely. On the down side it's going to be 'coming along' for some time yet. It's a very pleasing golden colour, has a great hop aroma and the mouth feel is perfect for me. However, it's still rather green and has yet to clear. Ah well, at least the half was very drinkable and much easier on the throat than the eye - another couple of weeks before I tinker again though.
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How do.
Put the Crusader under a bit of pressure today so took the opportunity to try a pint of the Fixby.
On the downside, it's hazy, but then again it is reeaally cold. Like a very cold fridge cold. We had snow and hail overnight and although it's now a bright day, it's still only 3 degrees in the shed in the sun!
On the plus side, it tastes rather nice. Drinks light for it's four per cent, noticable Goldings hop aroma, dry finish and really quite pleasant. If it was a guest beer at my local I'd be back for more (but I'd hope it would warm up a bit).
Maybe it will clear if it sits at room temperature for a while. Not sure it'll have the chance. At this stage it's not quite as pleasing as the very nice clear bottled Steam Beer, but it has the potential to be a beer I'd enjoy more.
Put the Crusader under a bit of pressure today so took the opportunity to try a pint of the Fixby.
On the downside, it's hazy, but then again it is reeaally cold. Like a very cold fridge cold. We had snow and hail overnight and although it's now a bright day, it's still only 3 degrees in the shed in the sun!
On the plus side, it tastes rather nice. Drinks light for it's four per cent, noticable Goldings hop aroma, dry finish and really quite pleasant. If it was a guest beer at my local I'd be back for more (but I'd hope it would warm up a bit).
Maybe it will clear if it sits at room temperature for a while. Not sure it'll have the chance. At this stage it's not quite as pleasing as the very nice clear bottled Steam Beer, but it has the potential to be a beer I'd enjoy more.