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  1. Ciaran12s

    HDPE kettle cleaning

    As you can see from the picture, the inside of the kettle is getting quite heavily stained. I'm inclined to be not bothered about it, just wondering does anyone else bother getting it back to like new and if so how do you go about it? After a brew I'll cover the elements with water and put in...
  2. Ciaran12s

    Liquid yeast at last

    Finally got my **** together and organised some liquid yeast ahead of Saturday's double brew day. I've went with WLP810 as I've done a couple of cali commons now and have been pleased with the results, it's possibly going to be a housebrew, and WLP644 as I'm doing a leftover IPA and this sounds...
  3. Ciaran12s

    Dry hopped white wine

    One for the winos, I still haven't attempted a wine as yet and was thinking of doing a supermarket juice as recommended by chippy. However, I just can't see it being a winner with swmbo. Not that she'll dislike it, just that shed rather have here usual marlbrough sav blanc. It's the...
  4. Ciaran12s

    First liquid yeast.... recommendations?

    Mornin guys and girls, Got a brew coming up soon and as I'm putting a full order in, I thought I'd try a liquid yeast and was looking a recommendation on which strain. Recipe- 4.5kg base malt 500g carapils (to get rid) 300g flaked wheat 300g flaked barley 250g 40l crystal Challenger at...
  5. Ciaran12s

    Coopers FV modifications

    During my last bottling session, the top half of the valve came adrift from the bottom half. Probably an easy fix but I've decided I'm sick of it and want to put a new valve in it. The last five litres is a balancing act, resting the bucket on the worktop, balancing it on my head and trying to...
  6. Ciaran12s

    Mini keg conditioning time

    Has anyone found mini kegs take a little longer than bottles to condition? I had a sample of a 6 week bottled ipa t'other night and found the grassiness from prolonged dryhopping had conditioned out. I tapped a mini keg of the same stuff last night but found it still very grassy. I sank it...
  7. Ciaran12s

    Bottling stick

    I've just finished up bottling 53 litres. First use of glass bottles and found the whole set up quite fine actually. I get proper fed up with my bottling stick though. There's a sweet spot where the beer flows well. The trouble is it's very small and hard to find. Lift the bottle too high or...
  8. Ciaran12s

    Harvested yeast starter calc question

    I'm bottling some brews this weekend and hoping to gather my first yeast harvest. The process seems fairly straight forward but I'm not sure about putting numbers in to the calculator. E.g. I gather 2 litres of slurry, let it settle and decant the wort/water and collect the yeast layer. I end up...
  9. Ciaran12s

    AG #6 and #7 brewdays and learnings

    Brewed a single hop citra golden ale and a California common this weekend. For the golden ale I went my usual route of fly sparging but got the sparge water hotter to try and boost effeciency. It didn't work out. Haven't calculated but I hit short of my 70% target anyway. For the cali common...
  10. Ciaran12s

    California common

    Got this one planned for this week some time. Probably the weekend. 25litre 4.5k pale 500g crystal 40l 100g chocolate 500gflaked barley 500g carapils (cos I ordered too much a while back) 30g northern brewer 60min and 0min Going to use the crossmyloof cali common yeast. After...
  11. Ciaran12s

    Mash and HLT temp monitoring

    What do you all use for monitoring your mash and sparge water temperature. I got a digital one from Tesco with a cabled thermocouple probe. Cooked that. Got one from Amazon, same idea but two jacks for two cabled thermocouple probes. I've cooked one of them as well. They've never hit...
  12. Ciaran12s

    Oatmeal stout - thoughts welcome please

    Hi all, Planning on doing my first stout this coming week. Base 4700kg Chocolate 400g Flaked barley 100g Rolled oats 400g East Kent holdings 20g 60mins Progress 18g 60mins East Kent holdings 20g flameout 25litres, 1.047OG, 25 IBU's Does that sound ok? I've used an app called...
  13. Ciaran12s

    First TC advice please

    I've done a TC today for a few cider drinkers appearimg over Christmas. Only other cider ive done was a Ritchie kit which was pretty good (I probably only had 4 or 5 pints ofit) Anyway I've had a troll through here and I can't see anybody topping up by 10 litres! What went in was 9l AJ, 2L...
  14. Ciaran12s

    How to give good head

    Just wondering what you guys and girls do to give good head and hopefully keep it good right to the end? I'm only a couple of brews in but the head formation and retention has been poor to date. I'm drinking a ghost ship clone available from the malt Miller. It uses carapils which...
  15. Ciaran12s

    Poor mash effeciency

    AG3 went off fairly hitchless last night. Was proud as punch til brewers friend told me my mash was 55%ish. I'm a big all round fan of efficiency to be honest so I was rather displeased with this. My mash temp held a steady 65 after underletting. AG2 had a stuck sparge so I put a colander in...
  16. Ciaran12s

    Hoppy red ale AG3

    That's number 3 under the belt and all went very well, especially in comparison to last time(stuck sparge) A nifty little addition to the setup was a poundland colander with a slot crudely hacked in to it allowing it to fit snugly over the pipe of the homemade bazooka in the mash tun. Worked...
  17. Ciaran12s

    Floaty doughy stuff

    Does anyone know what/why I've got this stuff floating on my beer after fermentation? It's only ever happened with my two AG 'S Could it be more yeast as with kits I've used the 7g pack but with the AG I've used 11g packets? Is it due to having two failed attempts at filtration of the...
  18. Ciaran12s

    Competition clarity

    I'm having some trouble finding the schedule for the competitions. Maybe I'm just being thick. What about a locked thread where the next 12ish months styles are listed along with the judge for that month? Possibly put the winner for each month on there with a link to a thread where they've...
  19. Ciaran12s

    Pavlov's Dog

    Has anyone tried this beer, it's by William's Bros. Looking for a clone recipe ideally if anyone has any ideas?
  20. Ciaran12s

    First AG complete and bubbling away!

    Got my first AG in to the fermenter last night and it was bubbling away nicely this morning 6 hours after pitching straight from the packet. (Phew) As I was in a rush and only decided to do it last minute I called in to my LHBS where I picked a recipe fairly quickly out of one their books...
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