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Tried a first taster of this today from a bottle...it's pretty good, very drinkable looking forward to the rest! Also have done a 6th brew, based on Hall and Woodhouse Tanglefoot. Grain bill was MO Pale malt(82%) and white sugar (18%). Hops Challenger and Northdown for bittering, and Northdown at 15...

"Easy-kegged" and bottled this yesterday, was down to 1011. For the second time I caught the bottling stick under the lip of the easy keg as I was lifting it away and detached the spring valve which once again ended up in the keg. I will learn to be more careful. Eventually. A cheeky sample tasted n...

thanks Hashie, I realise it's not a huge burden to have to get through a couple more litres of beer, but I was asking myself "why did I bother to spend a bit of time running everything through the calculator/spreadsheet if I'm going to end up ignoring what it tells me?" Never mind, just spent a bit ...

Finished and cleaned up. Ended up with a little over 13L in the FV at 1038, so more wort, less gravity than I aimed for. looking back over my figures I see that I started off with too much liquor. Completely ignoring the figure that the calculator was telling me. Which I worked out the night before....

BIAB number 5

Going to have brew day tomorrow to use up some bits and pieces. The malt bill will be something like: 91% Pale Malt 3.5% Crystal 3.5% Munich 2% CaraAmber Hops will be Northdown (8.7% AA) and Challenger (7.6%AA) 60min boil for bittering Northdown late hops at 15 min. Yeast S04. The style/ingredients ...

Started drinking my "spring" beer (see above - bottling problem) from the easy keg and happy to say it's all ok. I'll get through me 5 litres and fish the spring out and make a mental note to be careful next time!

Hey PP Only got a few bottles left of the first one as it is perfectly nice, and if I didn't know it was meant to be a bigger ale I wouldn't be able to tell from the beer, if you get my drift! I'm not sure on my next brew yet, you keep the pushing the schwarz which is on my to do list :salute: but S...

Just finished bottling this. Final gravity was pretty low at 1008 but that's not unusual for US05 so roughly 5.2%ABV. Better strength than my first attempt which I am very happy about. A sample was sharp on the tongue so hoping that mellows out in the bottle. Look forward to trying one in a couple o...

Thanks for the support guys. The brew all went well, ended up with about 12.5L into the fermenter at 1050. No hitches, and spent the day tasting and comparing bottles of my previous brews. My buddy's fave was the first extract brew I did which was a dry stout, so next brew day will be to do a stout ...

4th Mini

I have a non-brewing buddy coming over on saturday so going to have a brew day. Coming to the end of the amarillo APA that was my first BIAB so going to have another bash at this to use up the leftover ingredients. The first brew was way below the target strength for this beer so will increase the i...

First taste of this since I bottled and... it's good! I used 500ml bottles to bottle this but filled one 375ml bottle to have as a sample which I just opened. Coming along nicely, no off flavours so using the unsterilized thermometer hasn't caused any problems. I've since read about a "5 second rule...

Bottled this up yesterday, no dramas this time around.

Still on the hazy side but doesn't taste "off" so I hope it's all going to turn out ok.

Planning number 4 now... maybe a vanilla porter? :yum:

Mmmm, I suspect your wort might have been higher than 20C when you pitched... I think you are likely to be right about this. After the palaver with the thermometer I did lose my composure and no idea what the actual temp. was when I pitched. I'd just leave it in the fermenter for another week to le...

My temperature control is not sophisticated, just put it in the lounge and wrap it in a sleeping bag overnight. It may reach 20c when SWMBO is struggling to get warm and has the fire on full blast...she's always cold! I keep it wrapped when she does this to try the keep the temp in the FV reasonably...

wow..2 quick answers and the same question, the temperature of the room has been 18-20c during the day, a bit colder at night but I keep the FV wrapped in a sleeping bag at night to maintain the temp as much as possible.
Temp of wort when pitched was probably slightly above 20c.

Hi guys, anyone got experience with US-05 yeast? The yeast was pitched friday afternoon and had a lot of activity in the first 48 hours. Since then however activity has come to halt. Tested the SG today (Tues) to see if it needed rousing but it is down to 1009 already so I guess it is done. In the F...

You're not the first and certainly wont be the last oz, I've done similar things myself. I think just leaving it there is the best bet, after all it (the spring) should be stainless and therefor not give anything metallic to the beer. Thanks, puts my mind at ease. I was soooo annoyed with myself......

So today was bottling day for this brew. Batch primed a bottling bucket and syphoned from the FV into this. All good. Filled the first half dozen bottles, still good. The next 5L was destined for a 5L "easy keg", and that's where I cocked up...I was using a bottling stick with a spring loaded valve ...

Brew another this weekend regardless, you know you want to :) Hi Hashie...I would, but I've not got an empty fermenter at the moment! I've had another check on it and "something" is fermenting nicely..and now it doesn't smell too bad, so keeping fingers crossed. I think what I may try for BIAB 4 is...

Hi Yeasty, I bottled the whole batch but I can't say if the bottle I had today was from the start, the middle, or the end of the brew as I'm not that organised on bottling day! What I mean about the bag is that it has a fairly coarse "weave" at the bottom. I posted some pix here http://www.biabrewer...

Thanks Yeasty, the counter top was cleaned and sprayed with peracetic acid before I started brewing. The thermometer had been in the wort up to mash out, about 78C. Here's hoping. It's just so flippin' annoying though!!! I'm so angry with myself!!! :roll: Consoling myself now with a glass of BIAB no...

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