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Hi, Was using Coopers for a while then to Mangrove Jack`s range, and Black Rock , use their beer making add in stuff, so no sugar. Makes a nice drop and I don`t add anything to it, brewed as is. Should ferment for about 5/6 days before bottling with teaspoon of sugar. Cheers, Homebrew.357.
Cool, thanks for that. I've put down a coopers og lager. It's only a few weeks in the bottle, could help but try one in the weekend. Want the best flavor and was really flat...will give it time, then try again.
Kj
A couple of weeks in the bottle should have it carbed up. How warm is it up your way? Could want a bit of warmth to get your yeast going again. I've had to put my last batch in the lounge (much to the wife's disgust) as an early trial was also flattish. I'm hoping I'm not going to be under carbonated as I cut the priming sugar down by half due to being bottled at 2degC.Quote:
Originally Posted by kimjon
Update:
So basically, all the work is worthless unless you end up with something drinkable eh?
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So how did it taste, well here's a summary, drinking a bottle a week to see how it develops in taste.
1 week in the bottle; pretty much tastes like Satan's cock! Down the sink with that bottle!!!
2 weeks in bottle; not a lot better...but now has a cidery aftertaste, yup mostly down the sink once I couldn't fake the enjoyment anymore!!!
3 weeks in bottle; couldn't face the disappointment, so brought some nice beer from the shop...
4 weeks in the bottle; got a pleasant surprise! Still has a hint of cider and yeast, has a pretty light/weak flavour that an unkind person would describe as "piss week".... yet strangely it's very drinkable.
So, there's hope. Should've listened to Pete and not opened it so early...but come on, we learn by or mistakes and this is the price of education :-)
Kj
I have only done one kit beer and had similar results. Not bad but Lion and DB certainly were not getting too worried. I guess you can work them up to be better but All Grain is a good step up.
Put 30L into the boil pot today. Just have to take my girls to the circus so will finish it off tonight.
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Haha, nicely put, I'm definitely no threat to lion or db either. I'll give it a couple more tries...then I'll admit defeat and come to the dark side of witch craft and boiling pots?
I'm a slow learner though, so it will take a couple more failures for me to get there:)
We just opened our first bottle of chocolate malt stout. Only three weeks in the bottle but despite a lack of bubbles, bloody good.
Won't be tipping this down the sink.
I like the pot.! Did ya put the ball valve and temp gauge on yourself?Quote:
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Nah. It's a off the shelf pot from http://www.brewshop.co.nz/brewing-eq...ith-ports.html.Quote:
Originally Posted by deepsouthaussie
My HLT though is a converted 20L keg. Had a mate weld 2 x 1/2" sockets on.
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Three brews down now, the first was drinkable...just. the second was shit, ands was tipped out. And the third rates promising, very promising...
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Kj
Ok, I'm repeating myself but what the hell its Friday and I'm getting pissed, sorry drunk, on my own stuff so what the hell: toss any instructions, they are not worth shite, brew for four weeks minimum, then bottle for at lest another four, more will improve flavour, if you get impatient then buy more bottles do you can brew more beer...
Kits are ok. But you are just rehydrating someone's else's beer, ever had rehydrated food that tasted better than fresh, just saying...biab is easy, all grain requires more equipment, buy are really big pot and get a ball valve welded on, seriously it's an investment!
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1.060 into the kettle from 6.5kg grain.
This isn't going to be a session APA[emoji41]
That's a flash hydrometer. Mine looks like a sex toy and floats in a tube.
Kj
Refractometer. Thought it would be the ducks nuts. Shame as it is so slow the hydrometer is about as fast to cool a 100ml sample. ATC supposedly but it drifts and wanders about to be such a pain in the ass.Quote:
Originally Posted by kimjon
Made this tonight, a bottle drying rack. Pretty low tech...but should work like a charm!
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Kj
Just waiting patiently for this season's walnuts to grow so I can harvest some and make more norcino...molto bello...:D
I usae 1.5litre softdrink bottles to bottle minand wait for it I cleaned the bastards with the water blaster-stack crates on side against thedriveway fence c-feed in a hefty janola brew via wash bottle on the blaster leave for 10mins then hit em with water .
always did the job.also that long filler tube -you can just connect a piece of tubing to your tap and go from bottle to bottle pinching its end when bottle is full.