Geordie Mild with Cascade

[Danny(00833827)]

cheers, i moved it to a different room for now where its a bit cooler, but fermentation is probably done at this stage. Will dry hop at weekend for a week, then bottle. I was gonna stick a toucan on with a youngs scottish heavy and a coopers stout - but i believe the weather is to be hotter again in August so maybe i will hold off - hard to know I guess.

[LordEoin]

Indeedy, it's hard to base your brewing on our unpredictable weather.
Have you considered getting an old fridge and an STC1000?

[Danny(00833827)]

i have an old fridge there i could use, should be tall enough to take a 30 liter FV -
I had to look up what an STC1000 was - - do many folk use them? what would you use for heating in there?

Will take the mr muscle out to the fridge and get her cleaned up so -

[Ciderhead]

Smithwicks squirrel eh, can you brew and ferment beer overnight too?

Something like this at bottom of my larder fridge on hot circuit of stc1000, pleanty of discussion on forum going back how to do it, post if you need help.

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/1-FT-60-WATTS-TUBULAR-ELECTRIC-TUBE-HEATER-WITH-PLUG-FLEX-WHITE-WITH-BRACKETS-/380397276038?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item589171cb86

[LordEoin]

Smithwicks squirrel eh, can you brew and ferment beer overnight too?

huh??

Yarp, those heaters are meant to be good. Or a brew belt. or a 100W bulb under a terracotta pot.
Whatever works for you 

[Danny(00833827)]

thanks lads, some good options there - really like that Smithwicks advert, very slick - best one since Toto Scillachi! The Pale Ale aint bad either

[Danny(00833827)]

so i put some cascade pellets in a muslin bag there on Sunday, added some weight (stainless steel spoon, didnt work, still floated) anyway its a steady 18/19 degrees in the room, i went in to check tonight and there seems to be some kind of second wave of fermentation going on - bubbles, and a bit of a krausen blowout at some stage, a small bit is up in the airlock and a little has come thru - what the hell have i done??? is it ruined?

[Ciderhead]

did you starsan spoon and muslin?

[Danny(00833827)]

actually, no

[Ciderhead]

oh dear
I always dry hop in secondary a couple of days after I transfer from primary as I know then I am not disturbing any trub and re-activating fermentation and blowing any aroma hops out the chimney, I know many don't bother and thats good too, but you really want to be certain primary has finished before dry-hopping.
so how long was it in primary or fermenting before you chucked in the pellets, I am hoping you are going to say 7-10 days so that the alcohol would have killed anything you introduced?, any floaties? pics? as it could just be disturbed trub "re-igniting" and all you have lost is some of your cascade aroma and not your beer.

We have all had strange objects in our beer , years ago I had transferred to secondary and noticed the bloody tap was leaking on my bucket, starsanned my arm up the ying yang and threw it in there to hold the plastic nut on the inside whilst I tighted the one on the outside, no effect on my coopers blonde.

[Danny(00833827)]

went into Primary on the 20th of July - it was warm back then i remember so fermentation seemed to take about 5 days or so. moved to secondary on 27th and into a cooler room with constant temp of 19 degrees-ish - sat there for a week doing nothing really, I had tasted it and was encouraged. so was gonna chuck in the hops on their own, but then said, prob better if they are in a bag - didnt dawn on me to sanitize normally im pretty good on that front - anyway the bag was brand new out of the packet, the spoon, erm, out of the drawer.

was a bit of fizzing straight off, i thought it was the hops breaking up and left it to it.

[LordEoin]

You'll see soon enough.
If it still tastes good and smells good it'll be fine

[Danny(00833827)]

cheers - i might remove the bag tonight and give it a taste, see if it all dies down - was gonna bottle this weekend -

[Ciderhead]

Yeah you should be ok.
remember cascade aroma profile drops very hard so what you taste today will be gone in 3 months.

[Danny(00833827)]

got the muslin bag outta there and moved the beer to another vessel - was looking pretty still, will leave it sit for a few days and see if i can bottle, tasted grand. might have got away with it :