Recent content by gazzza123

I have this kit on the go at the moment... Starting gravity was 1045 and it bubbled away well for the first couple of days getting down to 1020 quite quickly but since then we're approaching the 3 week mark and it's maybe dropped to 1019. Not sure what's happened but it smells amazing...

Sorry chippy, thought best I do some work today..! In other news though I did speak to St. Austell Brewery today... They confirmed that they do not pasteurise but instead filter... Which ironically the bloke did say can give a similar "cooked" taste to pasteurising! Great hey... He's gonna...

Well this is proving hard work hey! Let's go back to the beginning... It's pasteurising that I have a problem with... Not proper job! This thread will give a little more info if you're interested...

Google! I spent a bit of time looking into it today. I mean to be honest it's does make sense... And with regards to knowing which are pasteurised and which are not you only need to taste them to know... But please if anyone does find non-pasteurised beers on sale please let me know... I'm...

I think you'll probably find this is common practice for most bottled beers... The information is quite easily accessible online...

Yes the yeast you've cultured is added after pasteurising for the bottle conditioning process and apparently it's a generic champagne yeast..? I'm not too knowledgeable on that part of the process if I'm honest but so I'm told this is how they protect it from copy.

Most bottle conditioned beers are pasteurised to kill the yeast so it can't be knicked by anyone! Proper job is for sure...

Yes they probably are unless they state otherwise on the bottles... Most are... Very few don't go through the pasteurisation process... You can taste it a mile off when you become accustomed to the taste...

It is pasteurised I'm afraid... And then bottle conditioned afterwards... Bottle conditioned does not mean unpasteurised.

I never noticed the damage done to good beers in the pasteurising process until I started making my own... In the last month I have had to bin 3 bottles of beer because I now find them undrinkable... Two of which were St. Austell brewery Tribure & Proper Job. Great beers but when bottled...

23lt Muntons American craft IPA. 4497 litres

Ok some good insight but no clear winner! Thinking the youngs AIPA looks popular so that might well be up next... Currently got a youngs APA conditioning so have to see how that ends up first.

Chuck em in loose then stick a hop bag over the end of the siphon to filter when you keg... Simples!

I did a wilko lager couple months ago and it's never tasted right... From the early sneaky tastes right up to bottle I opened today... Still got a weird off taste to it... Cooper's lager no problem. Not sure what the deal is with the wilko one.

Ok let's keep this simple... Nothing to do with personal tastes etc... I wanna know if you had just one last brew kit left in you, which one would you do? And maybe a little explanation of why..? The most popular choice will more than likely be my next brew! Thanks chaps!