Post #3513 made 12 years ago
by LeithR
Hi all,
My name is Leith Robertson and I live in the north east of Scotland just outside Aberdeen. I've been brewing for many years but that has, until the last 6 months been exclusively beer kits with the occasional wine brew, depending on what is available in the hedgerows.
I have now made 3 AG BIAB brews with varying success. Certainly the first one was a bit of a disaster from a brewlength and boil perspective. It was 16L instead of the planned 19L and boiled it with the bag still in the wart and the lid on, the general concesus from the UK's home brew forum was that there was a very high chance that it would be infected with DMS. Having admitted to that, its now 5 months on and its beginning to taste not too bad, but I limit myself to the occasional bottle.
I have a 25L boiler which I salvaged from my local skip and re-wired. It works well but I'm planning to build a 60L boiler based on a 60L food quality HDPE blue plastic barrel with a site glass and 2 boiler rings recovered from kettles etc...
My BIAB Bag is one of my old white T-shirts which I have sewen up around the neck and arm holes. I have recently been experimenting with yeast recovery and am working my way thru Chris White and Jamil Zainasheff's Yeast book to support that activity. I've had mixed success so far on that front. I have also recovered yeast successfully from a bottle of Weston's Old Rosie cider, this is currently fermenting a 23L John Bull cider kit. It has been going strongly now since the 1st of April and its just beginning to slow down. I'm looking to pitch Malocid at the end of fermentation with a hope of achieving Malo Lactic fermentation.
On the personal side I've been married for 34 years, have 2 kids (one of each)and 2 grand kids also one of each. My daughter is not married and has just recently qualified as a Physiotherapist. I have been retired since October 2012 and spend time what we in the NE of Scotland call "fossiking" basically hunting for junk which can be turned into something useful.
Regards
Leith R
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