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  1. Trent

    Hub - Xmas In July 2010 Tasting Notes

    If anybody got my beer at the case swap day, can you please try it and make sure I havent sent out any bottle bombs? I wont get a chance to pick up my case at Mark's for another week, so I have no way of testing it myself. Also, probably the best way to contact me from now on, including case...
  2. Trent

    Rims Vs Herms

    I use a RIMS, and I am fairly happy with it, but it is reasonably new (about 6 batches in) and I have to look at getting a PID controller to stop it overshooting the mark - the only problem I have come across. Its a 2400w element set under my false bottom. Seems to rise a degree a minute fairly...
  3. Trent

    Hub - Xmas In July 2010 Tasting Notes

    Um, it sounds like not everybody got a bottle of my beer (25). I wont be back in Newy until the week of the 9th august, and probably not able to get to marks shop until the 12th or 13th, so if ya missed out, and want one, just take one of your extra bottles to swap with it, as my case is at...
  4. Trent

    Hopback Summer Lightning

    IIRC, I tried it at last years Bitter and Twisted festival. I could be wrong, I was fairly sauced most of the weekend, but that name rings a bell - and all the beers at the stand that had that beer were great. Also possible I have confused it with Crop Circle. I *think* it was Phoenix importers...
  5. Trent

    Hub Xmas In July Case Swap

    OK I just tried the spare stubby I have of my beer, and it is undercarbed and a bit sweet, but still drinkable. At least the sluggish yeast is still chewing its way through the priming sugar and may take a while to make bottle bombs. I hope. Anyway, give it a few days or a week, and it should...
  6. Trent

    Hub Xmas In July Case Swap

    Thanks for the kind words, fear_n_loath The reality is that the beer will suffer from haze problems and also maybe a tiny little bit of hop matter still in there. I managed to get one extra stubby out of my bottling day, so I will try that tonight to make sure that it isnt horrible. I had to...
  7. Trent

    Hub Xmas In July Case Swap

    Wow! I coulda actually given my beer enough time to finish and joined the naughty corner. Just a warning to all you yeast farmers out there - DO NOT HARVEST THE 1028 FROM MY BEER!!!!! It appears that I *may* have broken a few rules and pitched in some yeast that was a little old and/or...
  8. Trent

    Hub Xmas In July Case Swap

    Um, just updating mine Cause I forgot about this, I only brewed it last weekend. OG was 1.070. As I was away all week with work, the beer itself managed to get a little cool, and stopped fermentating. I have it wrapped in a sleeping bag full of hot water bottles, hoping that it will finish up...
  9. Trent

    Beating Those Grains

    Huh, it was all a joke! You did do a very good job of making yourself sound like you had no clue about brewing, excellent in fact. You made us all look really stupid. Bravo. Although I can hardly believe you were willing to write such a long post as a joke. Very impressive, you deserve your own...
  10. Trent

    Beating Those Grains

    2 things come to mind for me when reading your post, and neither of them have anything to do with my opinions on the coffee grinder crushing! 1)- I am pretty sure that wheat doesnt have husks. 2)- I am also pretty sure that after you make your own toasted malts, you should put them in a brown...
  11. Trent

    Re Yeasting For Priming A High Alco Beer

    Why would you put champagne yeast into beer? IMHO, it probably best belongs in champagne. It could be argued that it is a good yeast to put into a very high alcohol beer when it is still in the fermenter to help finish off, but in the bottle? I have never used it as a bottling yeast (as the...
  12. Trent

    Re Yeasting For Priming A High Alco Beer

    From what I have been lead to believe, most of the dried yeasts that you will find have an alcohol tolerance around the 11% mark. I know of some extremely experienced brewers that will use dried yeast to prime beers in the 10% and up arena, so 9.25% will be a piece of cake. Good idea to re-yeast...
  13. Trent

    Wyeast Private Collection- Summer 2010

    FWIW, I used the berliner weisse yeast last time it came out as a VSS. Ended up a nice beer, but not what I would call a berliner weisse. Very lemony-zesty flavours, along with the bret, and it took 6 months to finish. Took 4 days before primary started (1030 OG), fermented down to 1010 in...
  14. Trent

    Wyeast Private Collection- Summer 2010

    Wow, I guess that is why there are so many different beer styles, cause everyones tastes are different. BUT, bret or lacto in an APA is a dogs breakfast in my experience, but give me a stout or porter with either (or both) of those and we are talking. Originally, most stouts and porters in...
  15. Trent

    Mash Water Limit

    Yep, there's yer problem. As I said in a kinda not straight forward way, if you start out at 12P (1048) and you read around 6P after ferment has finished, then it isnt 1024. Alcohol skews the refraction of light. There are several refractometer charts that tell you what the SG is of a specific...
  16. Trent

    Mash Water Limit

    Mate If you mashed at 62, with an OG that *should* have given you 4.9% (1046-1048), but your FG gave you only 3.3% alcohol (FG around 1022 or so?), then it sounds to me like your ferment wasnt complete, and you may end up with bottle bombs. If you provide us with a bit more detail on OG, FG...
  17. Trent

    Proposed Tax Changes

    the 30,000L equates to one 600L batch a week (with 2 weeks holidays!). I have no idea about Mountain Goat, but I know that Murrays brew 1200L batches and Hunter Beer Co brews 600L batches. Both brew more than once a week, so are ousted from any excise exemptions. They are probably typical of...
  18. Trent

    A New Brew Club In The Hunter Valley

    Tony Thanks for that, it would be great as I am a slack arse and take ages to get pics up! Punter, sorry ya wont be there. I think that most of the meetings will be on a friday, so maybe just take a few hours off on each meeting friday? Looking forward to catching up again Trent
  19. Trent

    A New Brew Club In The Hunter Valley

    Last lot ( I think) Hope to see an even bigger turnout this week. Trent
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