Home Brew Questions
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Voley
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It's just occurred to me that I could get my Headcracker kit underway now, too. On the box it says that 4-6 days is, again, a reasonable time for the primary ferment but I know agnes thinks that a couple of weeks is better for a stronger brew like this.
If I leave it a couple of weeks, I'll have transferred my Wherry into the keg by then so it'll be free for the secondary ferment, iyswim. But will it have developed problems from being on the yeast too long?
Now. I know this'll be a deeply controversial issue so please no flamingbut what does the group think to me cracking on with the second batch?
One question: are you planning to bottle or keg?
Because you need to plan for consumption, too - it won't last forever in a keg. I'd consider bottling some of your output of each batch to at the very least 2l PET bottles... (and keep them in a dark place if they're clear bottles).
Now, funny that you mention it because I might just have one or two pics...
I might post a pic of my current brew fermenting too later.
Homebrew Porn indeed! Monitoring ...
Already, Debbie and I really are starting to discuss the homebrewing thing. It'll take a while before we get going I think, and we'd need to buy kit, but there's enough info/advice in this thread and in some of the links put up to make it a goer, Deb has plenty of space in her house too, and I have time at present ...
Thanks for the encouragement and facts folks.
Do yourself a favour, and save yourself some grief: don't bother buying one of those horrible things you hit with a hammer.Heh!
Right. The Headcracker's gone on, along with a hop bag for good measure.
Pure impatience on my part.Now I'm gonna need a load of bottles and a capper.
IT'S TAKEN OVER MY WHOLE LIFE
If you're on a budget, get one of these:-
But the ultimate (and it caps recalcitrant bottles like the new Badger style ones) is...
A bench crown capper, which will set you back £25 or so, and be worth every penny whenever you have to do 47 bottles of beer...
Luckily I now have a more tolerant and forward-drinking landlord.
I don't think the Truck Acts cover rent, do they?
*points at aqua* Nuffin to do with me, mate, the turbo cider was her idea!I'm going to have a go at some of your turbo cider, too, agnes. Just ordered a demijohn today.
HOMEBREWING HAS TAKEN OVER MY LIFE
I am researching ways in which I might produce fizzy turbo cider that isn't as dry as a bone! Ideally without using sweeteners...
Well, it's all the same gear. You may find that there are faster yeasts. I tend to use champagne yeast, as that works well with apple juice, but - more importantly - my supplier was doing a deal on some nearly out-of-date stuff!
should confess that I brew my turbo cider in 25 litre batches, so they do take a bit longer.As for sweetness - it's a tricky one, but easy if you don't mind flat cider. Brew your cider in the normal way, then add a couple of campden tablets (these are sodium metabisulphite, which produces sulphur dioxide in acidic conditions, which is fatal to yeast). Leave that for a while, then add sugar to taste - I suggest drawing off half a pint and adding it half a teaspoon at a time until you've got it where you want it, then multiplying up and adding the rest to the batch.
The easy way to have fizzy cider then would be to force-carbonate it (if you get a beersphere, they have a fitment for injecting CO2, but I have been disappointed with mine, as it leaks around the tap and I haven't fixed it yet).
Ooooh, swing tops!
Stig
Condimentalist
I'm not going to post on a phone again, that was very underwhelming. No carriage return, as pressing return/enter will randomly either go one line down or post the post. Punctuation is like trying for the best goldfish at a dodgy fairground, too.
Anyway, I've racked my new beer off the yeast cake tonight. It's going to sit in the pressure barrel (with airlock) for the weekend while we're away and we'll bottle it in the week.
No photos because my camera seems to have died, dammit.
I'm still waiting for my order of red malt to arrive. I want to brew red beer! I've done hoppy, coffee stouty, very hoppy, porter, now I want red beer. Hurry up postie...
Anyway, I've racked my new beer off the yeast cake tonight.
It's going to sit in the pressure barrel (with airlock) for the weekend while we're away and we'll bottle it in the week.No photos because my camera seems to have died, dammit.
I'm still waiting for my order of red malt to arrive.
I want to brew red beer! I've done hoppy, coffee stouty, very hoppy, porter, now I want red beer. Hurry up postie...chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
Has anyone referenced the great Ken Shales yet?
Ahhh, Kenneth, but that you still did live.
Ahhh, Kenneth, but that you still did live.
Voley
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Me, down the pub, rich's newfangled internet phone, what's the one thing I try to do? POST ABOUT MY BEER
*goes to bed*
Tbf, Stig, this is the best thread ever in the history of the Internet.
