Homebrews extra strong Irish ale

[AT]

i made this about 3-4 hours ago and nothing seems to be happening. I'm thinking probably the yeast is dead so i bought more. My question is, i could only find bread yeast is it the same stuff? i hate to add it only to spoil the brew. Or should i give the first yeast longer to get to work?

[AT]

QUOTE (Daft as a Brush @ Jul 23 2006, 11:54 AM) Wait at least 24 hrs but don't add bread yeast. It doesnt work at all well in beer.

Have some of your wheat beer and relax
hee hee hee it i could get it out of the cornie!!!
anyway it started, slow but it's started. where can i buy the right yeast for future reference DAAB, i don't live anywhere a HBS? i thought yeast was yeast, if it wasn't for this forum i'd be making right piss. Cheers once more DAAB

[AT]

once the fermentation started it was flying, starting to slow now and all looks good. I'm gonna bottle this kit after 10 days like DAAB always suggests and try to leave it three weeks. I still have a problem finding a gas supplier, would it be okay to syphon the wheat beer from the cornie to bottles or am i best to wait as the cornie is holding the pressure from priming? it is already i think in there two weeks and i can hear it calling me every time i walk past the spare room!!!

[tribs]

Having split the last few batches between cornies and bottles, I can verify that the beer in volume matures faster than the bottles, but with a little more aging the bottles are equally as good.

[mysterio]

I have done the same experiment and I agree with tribs. If you want to be drinking good beer quicker, ironically it's best to give it an extra week or two in a cask for a moderate gravity beer. Higher gravities definately benefit from a good stint in the secondary.

[AT]

12 days in the fermenter but i bottled tonight and i think it'll be the last time i bottle except for samples, jesus that is hard work. Had a sneak preview and it tasted much stronger than my first beer, an after taste like heineken only much stronger. Gonna leave it for three weeks without touching a drop, mmm i hope. Now i have no kit in the house to do next and no idea what i'd like to do, better get looking

[AT]

i bottled into 2 litre pet bottles and now there seems to be quite a lot of pressure in the bottles. Should i let it out or will they be alright? They're in the spare room and if they burst i'll be in the dog house for about a month

[AT]

that's exactly what i did i tsp per litre. Thanks Daab, one could say you're a daab hand at this i'll send the missus around to your gaff if you're wrong :stun

[AT]

well so much for waiting three weeks! i chilled a bottle and i'm just drinking a glass of it, nice dark colour, not a lot of visible gas but when i drink it i can taste that it is actually quite gassy. Overall it's not as nice as my first kit (probably just my taste) but i'm still pleased with it as it's much better than i expected after tasting a bit when i bottled. The over powering taste is gone and it finished like smithwicks. Another week or so maturing and it could be a right good one. I used spray malt brewing sugar and a little household sugar just as an expierment to see what it would do to the taste but i'm no wiser i just know it tastes ok :beer happy days

[PieOPah]

My biggest problem is that I am always impatient.

At most I wait a week before sampling a taste. After that sneaked sample I normally enjoy it so much that I want more and don't bother waiting any longer. What I now try to do is make enough beer that a large portion of it will have time to condition really well. That way, regardless of which batch I start drinking early or even if I swap between beers, it will still condition to a much more pleasurable drink.

The BIGGEST problem (IMHO) with starting to drink too early is that by the time it has had a good rest and tastes so much more amazing that when you first tried it, you only have 3 or 4 pints left.