A day spent crouching 16/08/08

Toast · Post by **Toast** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 8:57 pm

Andy wrote:Nice one toast! Will bump into you at a NH brewers metting soon hopefully (or a cheeky session at the FFF pub in aldershot )

Andy - your absence at the last NHB was noted, 'sadly missed'!

I'm not going to be at the next as I'm away, but will be at the next. Would like to catch up before hand at the Triple f (sounds like a ranch). PM me with a suitable night...

Post by **Andy** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:54 pm

OK mate. I'll also miss the next NHB meeting as I'll be in the Lakes but I'm sure a cheeky beer or two at FFF can be arranged sometime, I'll PM you when appropriate (won't be this week or next)

Toast · Post by **Toast** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 3:55 pm

Both beers fermenting but quite slowly. Never seem to get them going off like a rocket...They both have a thick layer of yeast across the top looking rather like brown underlay. Yet to have a yeast froth to the extent it climbs out of the bucket. Am I under aerating it?

Toast · Post by **Toast** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:48 pm

Buggrit. Re-pitched {edit I don't mean re-pitch I mean added more f- yeast] tonight. I MUST be under pitching or under-aerating as nothing happens very quickly. seems to be going some more now...as you'd expect.
Found this article on aeration:
Clickmonkey
which was quite useful, as they say...

Toast · Post by **Toast** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:56 pm

Wednesday night (brewed Saturday) SG 1015 and it appears to have stopped. Certainly nothing has happened today, as it was the same reading this morning. Any advice? I've roused it daily from Monday onwards as it has been very slow from then on. OG 1047 yeast is S04...

Toast · Post by **Toast** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:17 pm

I am a monumental t*t and I freely admit it.
1013 was the SG I was aiming for with this recipe, so 1014 is not bad - I'm not sure why I had it in my head it was lower than 1010 but I had. OK so it is a little over, but I'm not sure why I was expecting something a lot lower, there was not sufficient fermentable extract to drive it down.
Read your brewlog Toast!
Sorry everyone...

Toast · Post by **Toast** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:30 pm

Racked the two beers for 2ndry fermentation and came back to them this week after a week's hols. Both beers perfectly clear and superb (by my reckoning), especially the Brewer's Gold which is knockout. Woe is me! I agreed to give half away to a friend!

Post by **Jim** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:29 pm

Cock ups are permitted if you get good beer at the end of it.

Toast · Post by **Toast** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:04 pm

Brewer's Gold - OG 1045 FG 1007 4.95% pretty much spot on

Best - OG 1047 FG 1013 4.43% again pretty much spot on.

My best is a little 'muddy', perhaps. From listening to Basic Brewing Radio I think I need to acidify the mash. Any one agree?

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