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Brew Quantity and When

Started by Will_D, April 24, 2013, 10:17:38 AM

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Jacob

That's exactly what I meant.

Sent from my engineering tricorder.


Ciderhead

May 12, 2013, 11:43:46 PM #106 Last Edit: May 13, 2013, 03:06:00 AM by Ciderhead
Your yeast on the bottom may be shot or one of Wills "Super Mutants" 7 legs, 4 arms etc  :o, best to start with fresh packet.
Did you use 2 USO5 to start with?

nigel_c


Cahalbrua

Ok I messed up with my refractometer reading.it was my first time using it. I knew their was calculators to tell SG from brix but as my refractometer gives a SG reading I thought their didn't need to be any other adjustment. So that's where I got 1.043.
Anyway hydrometer reading SG 1.090 and FG 1.016 beersmith gives me 9.8 abv
Beersmith refractometer calculator using hydrometer SG and refractometer FG gives me a FG 1.014
and 10.14 abv
Will have a sample of it with me tomorrow

Jacob

Uufffff. Glad to hear that!

Partridge9

Jeasus -lads your flying - I'll put mine into secondary tomorrow - expecting good performance from the yeast as I used a shit load.

ColMack

Mine down to 1.020 a few days ago, so should be ready for secondary now. Down from 1.084.  Really roasty with a nice bitterness, can't taste the alcohol at all. 
I'll be transfering this evening or tomorrow. 

Will_D

Just stole this of off another cask thread:

I'm getting way ahead of myself talking about the bottling but I did see this on The Mad Fermentationst Blog. It might be useful come the time.

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    A bigger issue than the lack of bottling yeast (although that may be part of the story) is the lower residual/dissolved carbonation in barrel-aged beers. Priming calculators assume that there is already a fair amount of CO2 in a beer even before priming (~.8 volumes, depending on the temperature). In the case of barrel aged beers that amount is often much lower, say .4 volumes. As a result we over-prime barrel-aged beers targeting a level of carbonation about .4 volumes higher than we actually want. You probably want CO2 in the low-2s for a big beer like that, but you'll need to add enough sugar for mid-2s to get there. Pro-brewers have meters that allow them to measure the amount of CO2 in a fermented beer, and many will force in some carbonation to get the young beer part way before getting the last bit from bottle conditioning.

    It doesn't take much yeast to adequately repitch, just a gram or two in five gallons, rehydrated in warm/sterile water, and then stirred in with the priming sugar. Luckily wine yeast isn't good at fermenting complex sugars, so as long as primary fermentation finished as a result of nothing for the ale yeast to eat and not too much alcohol, you'll be fine.
Remember: The Nationals are just round the corner - time to get brewing

Jacob

I think that I'll force carb mine and then bottle it.

Will_D

So lets update this a bit.

Firstly whos's paid €5:

01. Will_D           24 L : @ 1090 : 29/04
02. Partridge9    22 L : @ 1082 : 28/04
03. Jacob            27 L : @ 1089 : 28/04
04. Nigel 23L      24 L : @ 1088 : 28/04
05. Cahalbrua    22 L  : @ 1090 : 29/04
06. BrianC          22 L  : @ 1096 : 29/04
07. Ratsathome  23 L : @ 1085 : 28/04
08. ColMack        23 L : @ 1084 : 28/04
09. ColmR           23L  : @ 1082 : 04/05

The provisional filling date is Sat 8th of June from say 12 onwards at Colin's.
Colin will PM us his address and contact details.

So now the second list. If you can't make the date please say so and someone of us who are going up will pick up from you before the day.



01. Will_D           Bringing cask/stillage and mine
02. Partridge9   
03. Jacob           
04. Nigel 23L     
05. Cahalbrua   
06. BrianC         
07. Ratsathome 
08. ColMack        No problem Here!!
09. ColmR           
Remember: The Nationals are just round the corner - time to get brewing

nigel_c


01. Will_D           Bringing cask/stillage and mine
02. Partridge9   
03. Jacob           
04. Nigel     Don't think ill make the sat. Sunday yes.
05. Cahalbrua   
06. BrianC         
07. Ratsathome 
08. ColMack        No problem Here!!
09. ColmR           

Rats

01. Will_D           Bringing cask/stillage and mine
02. Partridge9   
03. Jacob           
04. Nigel     Don't think ill make the sat. Sunday yes.
05. Cahalbrua   
06. BrianC         
07. Ratsathome   no problem
08. ColMack        No problem Here!!
09. ColmR           
I drive way to fast to worry about cholesterol

ColmR

01. Will_D           Bringing cask/stillage and mine
02. Partridge9   
03. Jacob           
04. Nigel     Don't think ill make the sat. Sunday yes.
05. Cahalbrua   
06. BrianC         
07. Ratsathome   no problem
08. ColMack        No problem Here!!
09. ColmR           In

Also I did pay the fiver yesterday.

BrianC

01. Will_D           Bringing cask/stillage and mine
02. Partridge9   
03. Jacob           
04. Nigel     Don't think ill make the sat. Sunday yes.
05. Cahalbrua   
06. BrianC           No problem for Sat. 
07. Ratsathome   no problem
08. ColMack        No problem Here!!
09. ColmR           In


I didn't pay €5 for cask will pay next time I see you.

Partridge9

Im good for that day -

In other news - mine moved to secondary - roughly 21 litres @ 1021 ABV 8.25%