This Saturday I will be doing

[Doug]

I will be starting off a 40 pinter consiting of

1) John Bull 3Kg Barley Wine with a Brewferm Christmas 1.5 Kg kit. along with Muntons Dark 500g DME.

This time I have got a Brupak flavapac thing that tells you to put in boiling water for 1/2 hour then add to wort.

Anyone have any idea do I Add the water and leave out the teabag thingy or just add the whole lot to the wort. and what will it do to my precious brew?


Doug

[nicktherockstar]

no lol, you take the "teabag" out and add the water

the brewers choice along with many other brupacks kits have these little gems, they are great.

most kits tell you to boil the water and leave them to stew in it for 20mins-30mins take the bags out, pour the "TEA" into your bucket, and repeat again, then use that hot water to mix you kit into

[Doug]

1 kit of 950g Brewmaker Deluxe Barley Wine.

Ok so I'll just boil and pitch the tea in leaving the teabag out.

It's a small step for me but one that I hope that it will lead me one day to an AG existence.

This adds an extra 30mins to the process!

Thanks for the info I was going to put it in the Wort!!

[nicktherockstar]

No, sorry maybe I wasn’t clear enough


Get a pan or something like that, bring a few litres of your (treated) water to the boil in the kettle/on the hob however you want to do it

In the pan, put the grain/hop bags in, and pour the water over them (literally as if you were making a giant cup of tea)

Leave for 20-30 minutes and the water will go a browny colour, fish the bags out of water

Pour the brown water into the bottom of your fermenter

Repeat all of the above again…



Then just mix your kit into the brown nice brown water in your fermenter… sorted.

[Doug]

Yepp you was clear

It's a big teabag and as I wouldn't drink my tea with a teabag in I will not ferment my wort with this big brewbag in.

cheers

Doug

[nicktherockstar]

great stuff,

there is normally more than one, depending on the kit

you just put them all in at the same time, the extra special bitter kit i did had 4 bags! 2 of hops!!!

[anomalous_result]

This saturday I'm going to be drinking, watching F1 qualifying, having a curry then more drinking and watching rugby. It's going to be great.

The kit sounds nice too

[J_P]

Are you putting all that in the same fermenter Doug?

[Doug]

Yepp

3kg JB Barley Wine
1.5 kg Brewferm Christmas,
1 kit of 950g Brewmaker Deluxe Barley Wine,
500g Dark DME
and maybe 500g of Brewing Sugar.
and the Brupak Flavapak

and use 2 sachetts of Safel04

Is that a bit over egging the pudding? for 40 pints

Doug

[nicktherockstar]

thats like 6.5kg of fermentibles

keep in mind normally there is only 3kg or so

it will prob be about 12% lol

and taste like crap but hey

[Doug]

Hummmmmmm 12%. I may miss out the sugar then.
Coz I am looking at making my usual Park Bench comforter.

[Doug]

Sounds spot on to me

The slurry stuff I did/do is very drinkable over ice at 12.21% 3 litres mmmmmmmmm.

I even brought some Plaggi PET bottles to house it in, chucked in the freezer you'd never know it was home made, you'd just think jeeze this is rough s**t but after the 1st litre you become numb.

For the finishing touch is there anywhere I can get some brown paper bags from?

You know it's those finishing touches that make you one of the crowd down at the municipal waste ground.

[booldawg]

I had one of these brupacks 'teabags' supplied with my Fixby Gold kit. I recall (as per Daabs site) taking 300ml of wort from the main saucepan and then boiling the teabag in a separate saucepan with the 300ml of wort for 10 minutes. I then tipped this back into the main wort pan after the 10 minutes boiling time. I think it said boil for 30 minutes if you prefer a 'hoppy' beer.