Simply Pale Ale kit with cascade & challenger

[Clibit]

I'd use less than 75g myself, maybe 40-50g, or they could swamp the other hops. If you put them in loose they make a mess of the yeast at the bottom, meaning you really need to wash the yeast if you want to re-use it. Bit of a faff. Is it liquid yeast?

[Fastline]

No it was only re hydrated Nottingham, but i was thinking of trying to save it more for the experience than anything else

[SquireKnott]

I'll be dry hopping (pellets) a Simply Pale Ale in a few days - I've always done it in a sterilised muslin before.

What's the difference between doing that and just chucking the pellets in?

Do I need to wait for them to sink to the bottom?

[Fastline]

Wow opened the vacuum sealed pack of hops wow they are strong, so chickened out and went with the advice given just put 40 grams in, I didn't bother with the muslin bag I just through them in the fv, I was expecting a load of foam on top of the beer but fairly clear a few bits here and there, is that normal, the lid showed signs of there being a foam on top, does it die down and clear, gave the beer a little shake roused it into life a little more

[Clibit]

All sounds normal.

[Fastline]

May go for bottling monday night

[Fastline]

I went to bottle last night but need some advice, the beer is very cloudy and appears to still slowly be fermenting (bubbles traveling around air trap every 15 seconds) i took a hydrometer reading of approx 1.012

Its been in the FV for 16 days been around 16-18 Degrees C in During Fermentation

Should I bottle now

Advice please

[Clibit]

No, take another hydrometer reading tomorrow or better wednesday, see if the SG drops.

[Fastline]

What should I be looking for it to get to, or just wait till its not fermenting anymore?

[Clibit]

Stable hydrometer readings over a three day period is what I aim for, together with a gravity at or close to what I expected. If it's 1012 today I'd bottle it.

[alexlark]

Regarding dry hopping, I used to use a muslin bag but I now dry hop loose as it exposes more of the surface area of the hops to the beer (pellets and cones). What I then do when transferring is to put the racking cane into a very fine micron bag and syphon through it. Keeps almost all the hop debris in the fermenter.

[SquireKnott]

I've just dry hopped one of these with most of a £3.75 bag of Summit pellets.

A new hop for me and I've always used a muslin previously but have put these straight in Festival kit style.

Will bottle Sunday, hangover permitting (which probably means Wednesday )

[Fastline]

Has anyone here brewed the simply Pale Ale?
How did it turn out?

[Fastline]

Its been awhile in the FV probably a week longer than needed but I finally have just bottled my first batch of beer

It's a good feeling seeing the bottles build up, ended up with 42 bottles

I mixed 80 grams of brewing sugar with 500ml of boiled water, put this in the a second FV/ bottling bucket that has a tap fitted and then siphoned the beer into this

I added a bottling stick on a length of hose and used that to fill the bottles

Made a bit of a mistake I never mixed the priming sugar solution with the beer, not sure if totally necessary but thought better to be safe than sorry and empted the bottles i had done back to the bucket and refilled them

I would rethink the dry hopping straight in the fv there was lots of hops coming through towards the end of bottling, it even blocked the bottling stick.

How should i store the bottles now and for how long and more importantly when can i drink it

I got a coopers stout kit thinking of getting that on the go next week, going to try the ditch method

[Manngold]

Can't go wrong with the ditch method.

As for bottles, two weeks warm (same temp as the fv was) followed by two weeks cold.