Recent content by Tim Parsons

Beer was cold crashing in the fridge so was at a low temp but I appreciate the frozen mango would be lower temp. I was taking into account the advice of some contributors on here that said even though I've cold crashed and the yeast is dormant it can still kick off another fermentation . Bear in...

So although I really appreciated the advice, when it came down to it and I was tasting my cold crashed beer, and deciding if I should continue in my brewing rut I seem to have found myself in (making average beer in the shortest time possible to avoid the wrath of kids and wife) I decided to...

Or maybe I'll eat the mango as I drink the beer

Ok thanks for the heads up. Perhaps Ill save it for another batch and let it ferment.

Correct. Thank you for the advice though never the less. After reading the above contributions (thanks all) and finding out as well that us05 (the yeast I'm using) is quite resilient, im contemplating crashing it tonight for a few days, then putting it in a new fermenter to get rid of much of...

Also no real forward planning has occured. Fermentation has finished and I'm planning to crash it this evening so it's now or never... Or in a couple of weeks with another batch :-)

Thanks, especially regarding the defrosting. Can you tell me why I need to do that as I was planning on not defrosting if I'm going to be significantly dropping the temp

Really helpful! Thank you

I know that's not necessarily the purpose of the cold crash but taking it below the yeasts "operating temp" I thought put it to bed

Thanks for the input. What temperature was your secondary out of interest?

Doesn't cold crashing prevent the yeast from reacting?

Hi I've seen lots of posts about adding frozen fruit to beer with great success but one of the complications being it kicking the yeast out of bed again and further fermentation occurred. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with adding frozen mango (or other fruit) after dry hopping...

I've gone for 3kg wheat 2kg pilsner 25g Hallertau 30 mins boil 25g hallertau 15 mins stand 50g hallertau 10 day dry hop 30g Willamette 5 day dry hop Using a wheat beer yeast

It doesn't say what hallertau it is unfortunately. Its from crossmyloof brew and just says hallertau on the pack then some quote about moustaches for some reason o_O Its 5% AA I'm not geared up to do lagers so I'll do some pseudo lager as you say. Thanks as always for all the helpful advice...

How much would you say is quite a lot