Brew Day 11 May - Vanilla Stout

Get advice on making beer from raw ingredients (malt, hops, water and yeast)
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PieOPah

Post by PieOPah » Fri May 11, 2007 9:52 am

Yeah, I've got loads of photo's. Will upload them all after the brew day is over :)
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PieOPah

Post by PieOPah » Fri May 11, 2007 10:09 am

Argh, the weather has turned against me.

Okay, so I knew it was going to rain today but I was expecting light showers. It is bucketing it down. Got about an hour left on the boil. Hopefully it will die down without watering my wort too much!!!
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PieOPah

Post by PieOPah » Fri May 11, 2007 12:09 pm

Pie's Brewery is now closed for the day.

Everything went better than expected despite the one or two 'problems'.

The weather brightened up so wasn't an issue.

I overshot my target of 35 pints by 4 so ended up with 39 pints @ 1.052.

This gives me 74% efficiency, a personal best.

Now it's time to go to the cinema to watch Spiderman 3....

Wipost pictures later
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Western Brewer

Post by Western Brewer » Sun May 13, 2007 9:55 am

SteveD wrote: What make of digi thermometer was it? I had one that went haywire only weeks after buying it.
So did I. I think it was because I got wort down the inside of the metal probe where the cable runs into it. It was only a cheepo jobbie though.

Does anyone use the type the reads the surface temperature. You know the point and read ones? Are they suitable for or needs or is it better to have aprobe to read the temperature deeper in the mash?
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bandit

Post by bandit » Mon May 21, 2007 9:15 am

1 ea Danstar Nottingham
Is this the yeast type as I want to have a go myself this week
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PieOPah

Post by PieOPah » Mon May 21, 2007 9:29 am

I only used nottingham as it was what I had. You could probably uses any of your favourite yeasts in this recipe :)
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oblivious

Post by oblivious » Mon May 21, 2007 9:40 am

S-04 produces a good stout/porter
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