Recent content by purple-lazy

Nice. Glad you have the connections. I ended up adding another 25g/25g/25g Tuesday night. I tried a sample this morning and it certainly has kicked up the hop flavour, so much so I was worried I may have overdone it. Well for a second anyway.It has quite a viscous mouth feel and prominent hop...

Hey danestead. Thanks for the feedback. Don't rely on me for any reliable input regarding the recipe. I'm only comparing green beer with a half remembered Hop Hog tasting months ago. Plus I'm a nub with no palate. Any shortcomings with my current brew are entirely of my own making. I do happen...

Last night I racked the beer into a secondary fermenter to get it out of contact with the dry hops (25g/25g/25g) that I'd added directly to the fermenter. It had been in contact for 4 days at ~23 degrees and 1 day about ~3 degrees. I also had a lot of trub, yeast and hop matter in the bottom of...

Does the tallie have "DO NOT REFILL" on the base of the bottle as described here? That thread also mentions the bottles so marked weigh less than older examples.

Absolutely. Still considering giving one or both of them a go. Just not letting the bottles influence the decision now. I have a Chimay Blue clone on my to brew list that I need some serious bottles for. I'd be happy to hear testimonials for either of the Leffe's by the way, or comparisons to...

Thanks mate. Just the feedback I was looking for.

Does anyone know what kind of bottles (i.e glass thickness) these come in ? I don't think the Blonde or the Radieuse (which is also on special) are bottle conditioned, so they're probably not thick ones by Belgian standards? Getting some free beer with my (admittedly pricey) bottles would be...

Cheers mate. Thanks for the feed back. I'll probably dry hop tonight then by adding directly to the fermenter, and rack off in 4 days or so. Sorry to hear about your water issues. I treated mine for the first time with this brew also. Too early to tell yet how it's going to work out, but to be...

I had a go at a version of this on the weekend. Fermentation is rapidly progressing to the point where I need to decide on my dry hopping method. This will be my first time dry hopping. If you're about Danestead I was wondering if the four day contact time you recommend was at fermentation...

Thanks for all the feedback and advice guys. There's been some great stuff here, and I'm taking note of it all. Hopefully it'll make the difference.

Cheers Neo. Given that input I probably was going too fast. When I try again I'll aim for much slower. Not sure I could reliably keep that speed constant with my drill however. I'll practise a bit and see how I go.

Roger regarding the cutting oil. One thing I noticed about the olive oil was that being quite runny for lack of a better term, it was difficult to keep a good volume of it in the right place, especially on the curved surface of the pot. Something a bit more viscous would probably be advantageous.

Ha. Okay I have to admit that I just googled Swarf. I was slightly worried what hits I was going to get here at work. Roger on the oil recommendation Stu, but I think I need every advantage I can get at this point. Does cutting oil have any "magical" properties?

Cheers Dan. I definitely wasn't seeing anything like that with intact spirals. Just the smallest splinter fragments, and even then only when I was using a lot of down force.

Ha. Awesome antiphile. So you're saying if I get a cordless drill I'd almost be obliged to get a grain mill too! Win-win. Seriously though thanks for the reference point. Good to know.