Dovydaitis
Official fishco fish groupie
I've heard good thins about diablo, I have the brewferm christmas ale in second FV at the mo, planning to bottle it pretty soon but will not be drunk till July. Should be nectar by then
Home Brew Questions
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Dovydaitis
Official fishco fish groupie
popped away for the weekend, came back to a minor issue of the water bottle falling of the hamster cage but a huge issue of my toffee apple cider going mental and overflowing! Cleaned it all back up, whacked the airlock back in and off it went, bubbling away quite happily. Just got to finish bottling my cevaza as I have a new kit for the FV. Curses to Dorset Hombrew store.......
Dovydaitis
Official fishco fish groupie
Well my stout is bubbling away nicely
When it comes to bottling is there a preferable sugar for priming? Or will normal granulated do?
I have always used brewing sugar, I have a small bag that I keep just for that purpose
Addy
cooking...
For secondary in the bottle, normal sugar is fine.
Just be caerfull how much you add as you dont want a fizzy stout, just enough co2 to give it a head when you pur it.
I always keg my stouts and use a co2 gas cylinder to serve, but if I was to guess a bottle priming value, i'd say 50-60g is plenty for the whole batch.
Keep it somewhere wrmish, only chill it just before you want to serve it as you dont want the co2 to be absorbed into the beer and make it fizzy.
Dovydaitis
Official fishco fish groupie
cervaza bottled, tasted quite nice considering it was a tenner kit from Wilkos. Now have the OTR Mixed berries cider in the FV.
This will be my last beer/cider of the year.......
This will be my last beer/cider of the year.......
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
I'm going to do a brewferm tripple this weekend 
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I put two red local chillis into a Woodforde's Wherry kit, which has just finished primary fermentation.
There's a lovely gentle chilli-y burn left after the beer's gone down...yum.
There's a lovely gentle chilli-y burn left after the beer's gone down...yum.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Popped into my HBS tonight on the way home and to pick up a can of Breferm Tripple so I can do a double batch and he chucked me a can of Brupacks Belgian Witbier cos it's going out of date next month.
I've already got 2 cans of coopers wheat extract that i picked up half price last month so i'm gonna do a batch of white beer.
Any tips Addy/butchers/exi et al?
The kit makes 10 ltrs and requires no sugar. It comes with a tin of wort, a hop bag and grain/spice bag (Bitter orange and coriander) and a brewferm Blanche yeast which is good for 25ltrs. I'm thinking to do a 23ltr batch and use the wort tin, the two tins of extract and the hop bags. Obvs I can't get an OG until i've mixed the mofo but do you think 3 tins will be too high for the yeast?
Would you add more corriander, orange peal and what about hops for a wit? Saaz?
The best part is when i opened the wit kit all the individual use by dates on the separate items are 02/13
I've already got 2 cans of coopers wheat extract that i picked up half price last month so i'm gonna do a batch of white beer.Any tips Addy/butchers/exi et al?
The kit makes 10 ltrs and requires no sugar. It comes with a tin of wort, a hop bag and grain/spice bag (Bitter orange and coriander) and a brewferm Blanche yeast which is good for 25ltrs. I'm thinking to do a 23ltr batch and use the wort tin, the two tins of extract and the hop bags. Obvs I can't get an OG until i've mixed the mofo but do you think 3 tins will be too high for the yeast?
Would you add more corriander, orange peal and what about hops for a wit? Saaz?
The best part is when i opened the wit kit all the individual use by dates on the separate items are 02/13
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
I think based on my research i'm just going to concoct
Addy
cooking...
that how I started tinkering with grains, hops and yeasts.I think based on my research i'm just going to concoct
Out of everything I think the yeast strain has the most influence ofver the brew in terms of flavour, clarity, head retention and body.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Yup done some reading on the yeast and it seems I should be fine upto about 7% but hopefully the OG will set me up for about 5%. More worried about having the OG too high. I'll just brew it and see how it goes tmw.
Will post report
Will post report
badseed
Mighty but thin.
Popped into my HBS tonight on the way home and to pick up a can of Breferm Tripple so I can do a double batch and he chucked me a can of Brupacks Belgian Witbier cos it's going out of date next month.
Any tips Addy/butchers/exi et al?
The kit makes 10 ltrs and requires no sugar. It comes with a tin of wort, a hop bag and grain/spice bag (Bitter orange and coriander) and a brewferm Blanche yeast which is good for 25ltrs. I'm thinking to do a 23ltr batch and use the wort tin, the two tins of extract and the hop bags. Obvs I can't get an OG until i've mixed the mofo but do you think 3 tins will be too high for the yeast?
Would you add more corriander, orange peal and what about hops for a wit? Saaz?
The best part is when i opened the wit kit all the individual use by dates on the separate items are 02/13
If it's not too late...
Add 1 kg of dry wheat malt or a can of liquid wheat malt
crush the coriander (20g??)
boil half the wheat malt with the orange peel and coriander
add
15g Goldings 15 mins
15g Fuggles for 10 mins.
Add everything else to the fermenter (strain the boiled mix through the hop bag and chuck that in too) and top up to 20 l.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
No not too late. Will be off looking for some hops later.
badseed
Mighty but thin.
If you can get Torrefied Wheat,No not too late. Will be off looking for some hops later.
steep 500g for 30 mins and sieve the water into the boil for the last couple of minutes.
mr steev
magic thought wizard
I have another quick question
My mate is after some advice. He started a lager kit a week ago. After the first day is was quite frothy. He fitted an airlock a day or two after (by which time the froth had turned to a thin covering of tiny bubbles) but the lock didn't start bubbling. A couple of days later and there's no change. It gives a hydrometer reading of 1.0100
What should he do? Should he try some restart yeast?
My mate is after some advice. He started a lager kit a week ago. After the first day is was quite frothy. He fitted an airlock a day or two after (by which time the froth had turned to a thin covering of tiny bubbles) but the lock didn't start bubbling. A couple of days later and there's no change. It gives a hydrometer reading of 1.0100
What should he do? Should he try some restart yeast?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
1.01? Sounds like fermentation has finished. Get him to make a solution of a couple of oz sugar in boiling water and bung it in to see if it starts again . Also check lid and airlock for leaks! Wouldn't be the first time I'd been caught out like that!
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Yeah 1001 sounds like an ok FG? Does it taste ok?
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
I've actually got some chocolate wheat but thought a dark wit might be defeating the objective??
I've prob got enough stuff now just gonna get some hops this afternoon. I am tempted by the idea of a dark wit/xmas beer......ponders 
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
DunkelweizenI've actually got some chocolate wheat but thought a dark wit might be defeating the objective??
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
mr steev said:Yeah, our fist thought was that the lock wasn't sealed properly. We did think that it had finished, but in a couple of days? The kit said something like 5-10 days
I'll get him to try adding more sugar later. Cheers
Couple of days is fast, though remember that lager yeast is intended to ferment at much lower temps, so if it was at room temperature, it might have gone a lot faster.
I've stopped brewing lagers until I can get a second hand fridge to do it in, as I don't like the "fruitiness" of room temperature brewed lager...
mr steev
magic thought wizard
That makes sense. We both started a stout kit each at the same time and on my kit it recommended at least 16/18 degrees so I've kept them pretty warm (all three are sitting in my dining room at the moment as my mates flat upstairs can get very cold)
I did think it smelt quite fruity too, which has always put me off homebrewed lager. I didn't realise that was down to the temperature it was brewed at.
I did think it smelt quite fruity too, which has always put me off homebrewed lager. I didn't realise that was down to the temperature it was brewed at.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
InnitI love the irony of the thread title as the thread gets longer.
badseed
Mighty but thin.
I have another quick question
He fitted an airlock a day or two after (by which time the froth had turned to a thin covering of tiny bubbles) but the lock didn't start bubbling. A couple of days later and there's no change. It gives a hydrometer reading of 1.0100
What should he do? Should he try some restart yeast?
Check the airlock. When they are new yhey have a seal/ridge which runs down the middle like 2 halfs stuck together.
This tiny ridge canstop it sealing in the rubber grommit.
Rub a bit of sandpaper around the bottom to make sure it's smooth and round.
I just use the cling film method now, no airlock no lid to clean.
