Recent content by detunednath

Thanks for the help!

Ok. I'm learning the hard (or buttescotchy) way on this one. Missed the optimal time to raise to diacetyl rest temp. Will raise up to 22 for a couple of days and see how it goes.

Did rouse the yeast after two days at 18°C

Fermented at 10°C. 3 weeks. FG is 1.010 Doubt there are any fermentables left unfortunately.

Argh! Diacetyl rest @ 18°C on an American adjunct lager. First lager & the butterscotch from diacetyl is bad. Not going away after 4 days @ 18°C. PLEASE HELP! Anything I can do at this stage?

So to update on today's brewing: pretty successful! Ended up dropping pond pump in the pool & recirculating that through immersion chiller til wort hit about 32°C. Seemed to stabilise there even though pool was at 27°. Guess that's the inefficiency of heat transfer through copper? Then...

Brewing a lager tomorrow. My plan, after all the excellent advice I've received here, is as follows: 1) Tap water through wort chiller - running out into the pool. 2) pond pump immersed in bucket of ice - recirculating ice water through wort chiller, back to bucket of ice. Means I don't...

Thanks all. Great advice & much appreciated!

Gents - this was my first post & I'm overwhelmed by the response! Thank you so much! I used to recirculate into an ice bucket with a pond pump, but ice just melted way too fast. Already doing the ice and salt water which brings the ice coil down to 0° - sometimes probe is even reading a...

Howdy. I'm looking for some advice or wort chillers. I've built a copper two coil system. First coil is immersed in ice. Second immersion coil in wort. Connected by garden hose between two coils. I can drop wort from 100°C to 30°C in 30 minutes - WINNING - but won't go any lower than 28°C Any...