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Post by mr.c » Sat May 13, 2006 9:47 am

how much yeast is need for a Gallon test ???? :wall
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Post by Reg » Sat May 13, 2006 10:07 pm

Alternatively you can make up a number of starters with spray malt. If you use Badoit or similar thick mineral water bottles and screw the cap down once the yeast has mutiplies out in the wort they will keep for at least a month in the fridge and can be restarted for the next brew. ;)
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Post by Reg » Sun May 14, 2006 10:11 pm

Racking Done... :D

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Post by Reg » Sun May 14, 2006 10:12 pm

Into 8 bottles...

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Post by Reg » Sun May 14, 2006 10:14 pm

...and with a certain degree of smugness as to colour...

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The one on the left is a genuine bottle of Spitfire... ;)
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Post by Reg » Sun May 14, 2006 11:04 pm

That's a new one on me... UV no good for beer then? :huh:
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Post by Reg » Sun May 14, 2006 11:06 pm

That's a new one on me... UV no good for beer then? :huh:

(Having put together a random recipe that looks and tastes like a good quality beer I'm getting rather protective of my 8 bottles :P )
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Post by Reg » Mon May 15, 2006 10:03 pm

The bottles are now stored in recycled Tesco cardboard wine carriers under a work surface out of direct sunlight... ;)
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Post by moorsd » Tue May 16, 2006 5:13 pm

QUOTE (Daft as a Brush @ May 14 2006, 10:20 PM) I beleive its a reaction with the hops which produces mercaptins, the stenching agent used in gas and found in a fart
Yeh read about this...think it's the same chemical as the skunk produces as protection as well :blink: ...once I found that out, I've always been careful...yuuuck!! :lol:
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Post by Reg » Thu May 18, 2006 10:30 pm

Well I cracked an early bottle tonight to see what the final brew might be like and I am very hopeful. The rest has been put away for a few weeks. :D
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Post by Jim » Fri May 19, 2006 7:36 am

Patience, Reg! :D ;)
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Post by Reg » Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:14 pm

Sampled the final short and originally yeasty bottle tonight. Things are looking good! :D
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Post by Andy » Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:23 pm

Does it have to be a M&S bag or will one of these do ?

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Post by Andy » Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:33 pm

That's actually what I thought you meant when I initially scan read your steps! :lol:
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Post by Reg » Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:50 pm

QUOTE (Daft as a Brush @ Jun 4 2006, 08:19 PM) I've just unearthed some pail malt thats around 18 months old so to check if its ok,I thought i'd follow Reg's lead and make a mini-brew of my own.

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1:The Mash Tun
2:The Grain
3:The HLT
4:The Run-Off (using 5L fermenter bucket and m&s bag)
5:The Boil
6:The Hop Back (Funnel and m&s bag)
7:The PET Demijohn

Recipe-approx 1kg pale malt, a sprinkling of crystal, 20g fuggles full boil, 4g late copper.

I Mashed in the sauce-pan in pic 1 and 2, and put it in oven set at 50 deg c. When the temp began to rise after about 20 mins I switched the oven off and it held the temp for the next hr. The heat went back on for 5 mins which was all that was required to maintain 66 deg c until the end of the mash period.

While the grains were mashing I filled up the thermos (hlt) 3/4 full then topped up to adjust the sparge liquer to 80 deg c. This stayed hot until I had transfered the grains to the 5L FV with m&s bag and ran of the sweet wort and used the hot water in the thermos to batch sparge.

The boil was pretty straight forward and the pan was cooled in the sink with bottles of ice.

The hops were strained using the m&s bag which I sanitized by boiling in the leccy kettle. Unfortunately alot of the hot and cold break seems to have made it into the FV, as I cant skim, with any luck it will get spewed out.

If I do this again i'll fit somesort of hop strainer and use the 5L bucket fermenter as a hop back.
Nice graphics DaaB! ;)

Nice to see my experimentation has some uses. Malt checking is a good idea... :D
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