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5 months since I last brewed and now I have to pull out the tun etc. and I don't think I can remember how. I got my AG setup late last year but I never mastered it because my thermometer was broken and confusing me and now I can't remember my routine. :( Oh RAHAHB right?

In this weather an immersion chiller gets the wort down to pitching T lickety split! :) Since I got my whirly coil the haze in my beer has disappeared, which is nice.

The bathroom scales .. wrong as wrong can be!

I calibrated my jug on the kitchen scales ... but are my scales accurate?? I think they are because 50g of hops from beerbelly weighs 50g. :) Anyway, I don't use it anymore, now I do AG, I measure with a big blue bucket, which is close enough. If big blue bucket says 15l in and I get 15l out of...

Yes I did end up with beer in the fermenter. Exactly 23 litres, so I go something right, even if it was just my evaporation rate! :) The neighbours would prolly lend me their gas bottle but they keep their yard locked up like fort knox. I think we should have a stile over the fence but they...

So do sensible people ahve two gas bottles?

Thanks Pumpy. I've been trying to convince myself of that all day. :) I think the last 3 brews at least must have been made with the thermometer out of whack andthe one HWMBO is currently drinking is a very tasty hefeweizen, which just has no head retention, so I guess I've made some sort of...

Man! Now I've run out of gas! :(

Darn darn darn! My buggery bollocks thermometer decided to read 10C high lately. How lately I don't know! So that means, I "mashed" at 55C just now, mashed out at 66C and then I swapped thermometers and am now letting the sparge water settle at .. no idea what temperature .. somewhere between 70...

I just did a trip to Purvis cellars a couple of days ago. Came back with a mixed 6 pack and the first one we opened was the Renaissance Pale Ale. It was fantastic. Everything it claimed to be on the label. Toffee sweet malt and refreshing hops. Subdued fuggles taste. Very yum! I also got a...

OK. Didn't want to bottle anyway.

5 weeks in teh primary fermenter? You don't think I should rack maybe? I guess its too late to rack now!

Its down to 1.020 now . I doubt it will go lower. Shall I bottle?

Fourstar's method sounds pretty neat. I use to use a bucket in bucket mash tun. Cheap and peppy. Wrapped it up in a doona. Fourstar also makes a good point that it takes as long to do AG as partials but there is a big jump in euqipment cost for AG. And as for definition .. brew contains...

How warm were they the last two weeks? And umm ... the lids are on properly? I had a series of brews that had no head .. turns out I'm too puny to get the seals on. :(

Ross's Summer Ale.

After giving it a bit more thought, I've decided the difference between this one and the tripel I made last year, was aeration. Although I didn't specifically aerate, I topped up the fermenter with cold water (dissolved O2 there) and would have poured it from as high as possible without making a...

I used 1.5l starter. MOre than enough according to MrMalty. No aeration. No nutrient. I think I added ~500g of sugar. The fermentation was a bit strange. This yeast usually climbs out of the airlock, but it behaved in a very civilised fashion. And it usually generates a lot of heat, making it...

OK .. thanks. Man! Brewing is so stressful! I'm sure the last time I used this yeast I kept it at a steady 20C :unsure:

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