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So i managed to bottle this on the 17th June after leaving it at 22°C from the 5th June until the 12th June then 4°C until i bottled it. I'm quite interested in how cold crashing will effect the brew. I managed to get 40 x 330mL bottles out of the fermenter after transferring to my bottling bucket w...

Thanks for the detailed reply, it's good to know I'm on the right track. For evaporation I think I will change the default in biabacus by lowering slightly as I think it is an over estimate for most of my conditions, which in the north of Scotland is generally quite cold. Both my brews so far have b...

i take it the closed transfer is using a blow off tube to fill the secondary with CO2 from the fermentation of the primary? If so i think i may be past this point as there doesn't seem to be any active fermentation in the primary just now, now bubbles in the air lock. I wonder if you can siphon CO2,...

My brew has been fermenting for almost a week now and I took a sample today to see where it's at as it stopped bubbling a few days ago. Down to 1.022 which makes it just slightly over 10%. Unfortunately I can't bottle next weekend so it's gonna have to stay in the fermenter for another couple of wee...

Have updated my BIABacus with the losses measured and fermenter volumes. Though i think i'll need to get myself a big jug or something to get an accurate KFL, at the moment i use a steel rule and to measure depth and convert to litres using the BIABacus section U. Though i would like to do some roug...

Did think about adding some water round about it, but where it is stored at the moment a lot of other things get thrown in the cupboard (wife and kids don't appreciate my beer needing care and attention!) and didn't want to be responsible for soaking everything. It's been on since Saturday now so th...

Yeah I've seen some stuff about refractometers and their inaccuracies, but as a trending tool I think it will have some merit. Though as I broke my second thermometer during this brew I'm gonna have to splash out on a new one of them first, gonna go for something from a slightly better make than my ...

Cheers for the reply. It wasn't my own recipe I must have missed out the credit cell, it was mainly from greg hughes book but I added the coffee and vanilla. I did look into increasing the boil time but I as I had bought the grains as a mixed bag in the original recipe weights (before I found biabac...

Thanks Rick, I'll keep that in mind for next time. I'm hoping it will have a slight coffee kick and some sweetness from the vanilla, I am hoping to have some patience with this brew and leave to condition for a decent period of time. BDP: I have two 11g packs of Nottingham, I think I'll probably pit...

My fermenter holds about 27L with about an inch headspace, the fermentation overflowing is one of the things I'm worried about. Was planning on soaking the vanilla pod in whisky or vodka during initial fermentation then dumping in after about 5 days. It's good to hear nothing looks too off about the...

I would steer clear of the boiling methanol idea, very flammable liquids that high above their flash point is a recipe for trouble. If you are getting 0 and 100 readings accurately then you want be too far out at mash temperature. Having more than one thermometer can help ease the mind as well. Sent...

Sorry just noticed this post, I'll try and answer from memory. I can't quite remember exactly how much I had in primary (in fact I don't remember using a primary and secondary) think I may have gone straight to bottling bucket from primary and dry hopped in there. From memory I lost about 2L to trub...

Yeah I don't fully trust my thermometers which was why I had two. I had checked them both at boiling and freezing temperatures and both read within a degree of what they should, which is no guarantee that they will read correct at mash temperature but is the best I can do at home. For a bit more mon...

I've got a cheap amazon thermometer (this one -> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eddingtons-Digital-Timer-Meat-Thermometer/dp/B005IPJPBM/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&qid=1464257055&sr=8-31&keywords=oven+thermometer ), i did also buy a ThermoPro TP10 one that i left in the boil but i think the probe has died on it a...

Gave it 7 days in primary fermentation then decided to move to secondary to dry hop. Lots of trub settled out, but got about 15l in secondary for dry hop, plan is to bottle this weekend after a couple of days crash chilling in the garage. Though the ambient temperature has increased to about 12C rat...

Cheers PP, i did get it sorted by sterilising my siphon and using it to transfer enough wort so i could reach the hop bazooka with a sterilised gloved hand and remove it. Quite a bit of material came through to the fermenter but hopefully it will settle out quite well in there. For this brew i think...

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