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While the beer will probably (almost certainly) be carbonated and ready at two weeks, try leaving a bottle or two for at least six months and taste it then. Most likely, you'll find it's even better then. :)

Scottish Ales. :chug: :icon_drool2:

Excellent. Thanks. I might do this on a beer I'm planning to emulate Belhaven's St. Andrews.

Exactly. I prefer to have the idiocy aired publicly so it can be countered publicly and exposed as the idiocy it is.

Manticle, I'm thinking of trying that long boil. I'm a sucker for the UK beers. When you say 3hr boil and hop additions as usual, you mean with the usual timings where the hops go in during, say, the last hour or so of those three, right?

I think your boil looks just fine. Mine is probably a little quieter than that, depending on ambient temp, I think and that's never caused issues. I really like your setup. :)

Yes. She lacks the basic human dignity required to at least lie about her revolting views.

A good porter works anytime! Yours looks great, Peekaboo. I always do the same thing; I tend to brew according to what I feel like having, which means I'm always a few months out of sync with what I actually have. Oh well, good beer is good beer anytime. :)

My main frustration with Turnbull, is that we've clearly not been getting Turnbull; we've been getting Bernardi. What astonishes me the most, is that when Turnbull finally got rid of The Mad Monk (who was ONLY voted in because he 'wasn't Labor'), the opinion polls for LNP skyrocketed. They did...

For much longer, the British brewers were wearing skirts, as most brewers throughout history have been women. Perhaps we should all wear skirts instead?

I know that this sort of thing can go both ways, but I've found that it's pretty rare that anything goes wrong. Some years ago, I was moving my fermenter and as I was carrying it through a slightly narrow door, the damned lid popped off, rolled away and settled with the inside lying down...

I'm all for sanitation and I keep my bottles very clean indeed. Frankly though, I think some of what's being described is over the top and . . well, I really like being able to brew without having to buy cleaners etc. I generally wash out my bottles with warm water from the tap after I've...

I wash my bottles with cleaning alcohol and boiling water right after emptying them. Then I take them to my neighbourhood glass-blower, who melts them down and makes me a fresh batch of bottles. I just don't feel it's worth the risk bottling my beer in previously used bottles.

I almost always leave it to cool down in the fermenter and I've never had a problem. I reckon the temperature of the wort in the fermenter takes pretty good care of any nasties in the first place and I always wash out the fermenter with boiling water before that stage, too. I pitch next morning...

I recently bottled one (pale ale) that had CCd in secondary for 14 months. It's turned out excellent.

That is a beautiful looking beer, mate. :beerdrink:

Tasting the beer along the way is one of the main charms of homebrewing to me. I taste the original liqour, I taste it right after the boil, I taste it when it's cooled, just before adding yeast and I taste it at daily intervals until the main fermentation is complete. Then at racking to...

Sorry for reviving this one - and for not updating on the outcome. Still busy. Anyway, even after this post, it took me nearly two months to get around to bottling, which was done on 19May. I'd actually decided to add yeast for everything other than a few bottles for the sake of...

Thanks, all. I'll go for the middle ground as suggested by Manticle; I'll probably do ten bottles or so without new yeast and then add some to the rest. I'm generally happy to 'challenge' the rules a bit. My motto for the past 8 years of brewing has always been that if Ol' Bess at some...

Hi, all. Last year in early February, I brewed a Pale ale of sorts (AG). OG 1046, finishing at 1010. At the end of February 2013, I transferred to secondary and put it in the fridge, planning up to two weeks there. To cut a long story short, I have been stupidly busy the last year and never...