Glorious Five Year Plan

[tubby_shaw]

I just made up the Glorious Five Year Plan lager.
Sadly, it involved the consumption of several pints of Caffreys and Boddingtons, and as a consequence i'm pissed as a fart.

For F*&%s sake get brewing quick and you wont have to suffer the indignity of drinking that cr4p again

[maxashton]

Working on it! as soon as the primary and conditioning is done, i will get pissed drinking my Glorious Five Year Plan.

[bettyswallocks]

Had a pint of boddies last night, tasted like bubbly gum. Used be a cracking pint before they sold out to whitbread.

[oxford brewer]

Had a pint of boddies last night, tasted like bubbly gum. Used be a cracking pint before they sold out to whitbread.

Was it?

[bettyswallocks]

Boddies was a good pint until the early 80's. Along with Joey Holts they were the cheapest pint in britain. Holts probably still is. Where boddies became more pissy year after year, Joey Holts became more fiercly independent and still brews fine ale and 1 of the bitterest of all bitters. Marvellous!

[maxashton]

Here's the picutres!

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Nicodiemu ... veYearPlan

[tubby_shaw]

Now that's dedication, putting on chefs whites to brew beer
Although a hairnet might have been appropriate

[maxashton]

As to the hairnet... don't know what you mean

The chef's whites are a bit of a tradition when brewing beer. I don't remember why i started it. I was probably drunk. I consider it a bit of a good luck charm.

Ooh, im starting to get sulpherous smells in the kitchen now. Do they normally start this early? Is that a good sign with Lager yeast?

[chopperswookie]

i was going to put in a stewards enquiry coz it looks like something out of the open university

[maxashton]

eh?

[chopperswookie]

with the whites and all that. the boiling pan is that spray malt?

[maxashton]

Yeah, that's the spraymalt.
It smelled bloody wonderful.
I must confess, i was dabbing the remainders out of the packets with my finger.

[chopperswookie]

totally agree max, mrs chopper hates it say the house smells like a brewery

[maxashton]

This yeast is something else.

In an another thread, somoene pointed out to me that at low temps not a lot of yeast stays in suspension. Is this a problem for this "bottom fermenting" yeast?

I'm using Saflager S-23.

[maxashton]

I tried to keep things as organised as possible, despite being a few pints of (apparently disreputable) bitter over the top.

The house DID in fact smell like a brewery for a good few minutes.
Now it just smells like i ate a gallon of baked beans, apparently due to the hydrogen sulfide.

SWMBO is not impressed.