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  1. nigelnorris

    Meringue in my Lager?

    Made up a batch yesterday, the fermenter went in the fridge at about 25C and cooled over night to 10C. It has a layer of what appears to be foam on top, half an inch thick and still rising, pure white and really thick consistency, it looks like, and seems to have the same consistency as [I...
  2. nigelnorris

    Bottling Temperature?

    Best temp to avoid oxidation when bottling. It's in the fridge right now crashed to 0C. Bottle at that or let it warm up to room temp first?
  3. nigelnorris

    CAMRA stuck in the past?

    Hell no! Oh, hang on... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-43084843 Surgeon and Dildo, by the way.
  4. nigelnorris

    Boiler Volume /best/quickest/cheapest way to measure?

    How do I find out how much liquid is in my boiler, anyone got a quick tip? Marking the inside walls sounds dubious, I thought about marking my stirrer but it's white plastic so nothing shows up.
  5. nigelnorris

    eBay 20% off everything

    They've just sent a notice out via the app, a single use code and literally everything reduced. Can be applied to baskets as well as individual items. Ah - max discount £75 so don't go expecting a mega cheap Grainfather.
  6. nigelnorris

    Shocking behaviour

    I spilled a small amount of wort while mashing, and then the lights and sockets went out in my kitchen. I went to the cupboard under the stairs and turned the fuse switch thing back on and the kitchen came back to life. I went to turn my ACE boiler on [which had been off the whole time] and got...
  7. nigelnorris

    Why won't my lager clear?

    I've made four or five BIAB lagers. Recipes have been extra pale maris otter plus 5 or 10 percent of some other grain. Hoppage has been mostly saaz at about 3g/L. Yeast has been s-23 every time. Hour long mash 65C-67C, hour and a half boil. Two weeks or thereabouts at 12C, a couple of days at...
  8. nigelnorris

    Elvis Juice[s]

    In a conversation elsewhere I asked how come no one uses the fleshy bit of a grapefruit when they're making something like this. No one answered so here I am. Aiming to make about 18L, split into two buckets. One will get the zest from 3 grapefruits, the other the flesh. Here's the original...
  9. nigelnorris

    Help! Mash too hot, have I ruined it?

    Heater malfunction led me to add the grain to water that was well into the 80sC. I spotted it straight away, added cold water to try to bring it down, but not enough room. So I baled a load out than added more water. Took about ten minutes of baling and adding before I got it down to proper...
  10. nigelnorris

    Pimpin' my Fermentation Cupboard

    Don't have either space or transport for a proper fridge so I thought I'd try my own interpretation of the frozen water bottles type cooling system. Step one, this post, is using 2 inches of polystyrene sheet to create a cool chamber for the ice to go in. Step 2; If [big if] that works well...
  11. nigelnorris

    Immersion chiller blocked

    Come to chill my brew today and even on full tap pressure only a trickle passed through. It's not the source or the connectors, I stripped everything off and can't blow though it. Definitely no crimps in the tubing either, nice and smooth all round. So there must be an actual blockage in it...
  12. nigelnorris

    Washing yeast

    Completely confused. Moved a fully fermented brew into a secondary yesterday to stick in the garage for a few of days chill prior to bottling. Idly surfing about I saw a video about washing the gunk in the bottom of the primary bucket and saving myself four quid on the cost of yeast for...
  13. nigelnorris

    Inkbird 308S review

    Inkbird very kindly let me have a go on one for evaluation, here's what I think of it: The thermometer is a) calibratable and b) accurate, so considering how many rubbish digital probes and broken glass thermometers I've got through over the years just that bit makes the inkbird worth having...
  14. nigelnorris

    Brewday Chez Nige; AKA ACE boiler + Inkbird playday

    At last the temperature in my kitchen has remained below 20C for a week so I reckon today's the day to get my first brew on since the temperatures went up in June. Lots of requests in the big thread for help using the ACE BIAB style so here's my interpretation, I'm not putting it in the big ACE...
  15. nigelnorris

    Beer Taster Wanted

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-37319409
  16. nigelnorris

    Electric cool box as a FV?

    Dunno about this idea but... https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=electric+cool+box Airtight sealed, cools way down below normal fermentation temps. Mains operated via an adapter so hook it up to an inkbird and away I go, maybe bung a fishtank...
  17. nigelnorris

    Wait for the Blackout

    First brewday thread, first Stout Tried to keep as near trad as I could manage given what was lying about in the kitchen already. Recipe is an amalgam of recipes picked up from half a dozen different sites. The only roasted barley they had in the shop was a pack past its sell by. Then I got...
  18. nigelnorris

    Stout without roasted barley?

    I wanted to make a stout so I ordered what I thought I needed. Every recipe I've seen seems to include roasted barley, but the delivery is cocked up and I have a surfeit of chocolate malt and dark crystal, but no roasted barley. Could I just use extra of one of the other ingredients, or is...
  19. nigelnorris

    Understanding pitching rate

    Something that's always confused me. Yeast is just like a bacteria, put it in a growing medium and it reproduces, by division, endlessly until it's used up the growing medium or until its byproducts attain poisonous levels. Some of the cells die along the way and then the rest die when there's...
  20. nigelnorris

    What happened on 13th Jan?

    According to the homepage: Most users ever online was 1,067, 13-01-2016 at 11:08 PM. Seems like rather a lot all at once...
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