Brew Number Five : Last Great Eastern Hurrah
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fivetide
This last brew of the Summer remains at 1012, but is clearing up well in secondary and smells as it should. Hoiked the hops after just four full days. The previous Great Eastern was well-hopped with Cascade and is still very pleasant, but this one will give a contrast with a shorter hop with the Bramling Cross. Hoepfully the witches' stones will have done their magic once again and I won't get any infections or anything nasty.
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stevezx7r
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fivetide
I racked this Great Eastern today after 10 days in primary and another 12 days in secondary, including 4 days dry-hopping with Bramling Cross (1010 from 1041/1042 = 4.2%ish)
Here is it is ready to go into the sanitised Corni and swingtops. The Corni is full of CO2 at this stage. I vented and tapped into the bottom of the keg under the gas fog...
And here it is all done and ready to go out to the shed. I drank the secondary remainder through the siphon and thought it was fantastic, very pleased indeed!
I opened the valve and pumped 20 seconds of CO2 into the air space, closed valve, pressurised, vented. Will now leave a month or more and hope for the best. Would it keep untouched for two months (end September)? If so that could be handy.
Here is it is ready to go into the sanitised Corni and swingtops. The Corni is full of CO2 at this stage. I vented and tapped into the bottom of the keg under the gas fog...
And here it is all done and ready to go out to the shed. I drank the secondary remainder through the siphon and thought it was fantastic, very pleased indeed!
I opened the valve and pumped 20 seconds of CO2 into the air space, closed valve, pressurised, vented. Will now leave a month or more and hope for the best. Would it keep untouched for two months (end September)? If so that could be handy.
Last edited by fivetide on Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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DRB
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prodigal2
Err yes, if I racked over any carpet it would have the consistency of a 10 year old nightclub carpetDRB wrote:You are a brave man racking on that nice clean cream carpet,I would have got it everywhere.
Hope it turned out tasty.
We have a rule in our house if it can't be wiped down, I'm not allowed to brew near it
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fivetide
Hi all. I haven't posted for a long time, but thought I'd provide a quick update on this brew for anyone trying a GE of their own.
I started this one in the last week of June and racked it to a Corni on 17th July. After over ten weeks conditioning without peaking, I gave it to my brother as planned for his 40th birthday last weekend and first reports are very pleasing.
I kept it under 2-3 pounds of pressure from pub gas pretty much the whole time, with 12 pounds for the last 10 days to force carbonate. I then took it back down to 3 pounds and strapped it with bunjies into my passenger seat to drive the ten miles or so to my brother's shed, where it now sits (pictures to follow once I get my first pint in person!) with an H&G quick release tap and pocket keg charger.
My bruv reports that it tastes good (although whether due to early pints and long tube or transport, isn't completely clear yet). He did provide some more interesting tasting notes but I don't have them to hand! Anyway, it seems the whole venture was a success and the blankets of CO2 and no peaking policy worked well. I didn't even put a tap on until I got it in its final resting place.
*Here's a tip though - remember to release that final 3 pounds of pressure before shoving the quick release tap on...
I started this one in the last week of June and racked it to a Corni on 17th July. After over ten weeks conditioning without peaking, I gave it to my brother as planned for his 40th birthday last weekend and first reports are very pleasing.
I kept it under 2-3 pounds of pressure from pub gas pretty much the whole time, with 12 pounds for the last 10 days to force carbonate. I then took it back down to 3 pounds and strapped it with bunjies into my passenger seat to drive the ten miles or so to my brother's shed, where it now sits (pictures to follow once I get my first pint in person!) with an H&G quick release tap and pocket keg charger.
My bruv reports that it tastes good (although whether due to early pints and long tube or transport, isn't completely clear yet). He did provide some more interesting tasting notes but I don't have them to hand! Anyway, it seems the whole venture was a success and the blankets of CO2 and no peaking policy worked well. I didn't even put a tap on until I got it in its final resting place.
*Here's a tip though - remember to release that final 3 pounds of pressure before shoving the quick release tap on...
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fivetide
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andyp
"After over ten weeks conditioning without peaking,"
Ten weeks! bleedin' 'ell a lot of people don't get past ten days.
I'm really interested in these kit modifications and note that you tend to add later hops. Have you ever used additions at the start such as crystal malt with good results? Just got some of that and want to play.
Ten weeks! bleedin' 'ell a lot of people don't get past ten days.
I'm really interested in these kit modifications and note that you tend to add later hops. Have you ever used additions at the start such as crystal malt with good results? Just got some of that and want to play.
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fivetide
Hi Andy. Until I had a 'bairn-break', I tried to have two or three beers on the go and some turbo cider and stuff too just to stop me fiddling with my brew and I found leaving them to condition for a long time just made better clearer beer. This one was for my bruv so I kept it under pressure and untouched, worked a treat.
Yeah, I love hoppy finishes so the dry-hop thing has worked well for me so far, but I will soon be doing a wheat beer and adding sour orange peel and coriander and things following ideas posted by DaaB and others on this forum, so I'll post pictures of that process too.
Next up is American Steam though and I think I'll just dry hop cascade and use an American yeast to change that one.
Yeah, I love hoppy finishes so the dry-hop thing has worked well for me so far, but I will soon be doing a wheat beer and adding sour orange peel and coriander and things following ideas posted by DaaB and others on this forum, so I'll post pictures of that process too.
Next up is American Steam though and I think I'll just dry hop cascade and use an American yeast to change that one.
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andyp
I'll be interested in how that turns out as I've got something similar pencilled in for later, a kind of clone of a hoegaarden clone.fivetide wrote: but I will soon be doing a wheat beer and adding sour orange peel and coriander and things following ideas posted by DaaB and others on this forum, so I'll post pictures of that process too.
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Next will be a Coopers Real Ale Kit with some crystal malt, DME and some challenger and EK Goldings. Just pondering over proportions for a bit.