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If I'm bottling from the pressure fermenter I just off gas it over a few days or a week until there's no pressure, then bottle as normal.

Missed the note about the starter - makes sense. Enjoyed the water paper.

Is S189 any good under pressure?

Could be an under pitch too. I packet of yeast for 23L of lager seems short.

I guess I could do that. I'm always loathe to do that sort of thing, but might be worthwhile. I'm planning to leave it for the full two weeks so I'm hoping it'll be fine. Thanks for your reply.

Thanks for that. I tend to only do small batch of the high gravity stuff so that's come in handy.

I put down a Russian Imperial Stout with an OG of 1.084 on Monday. Added nutrient in the boil and oxygenated it the way I normally would. Then pitched a half pack each of Windsor and Nottingham in 4.5L of wort. It took off very quickly but there hasn't been any airlock activity since Tuesday...

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Would love one. Really like the one I have, but wifi would be awesome.

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Yep, it was!

I made an awesome gingered dark ale that I got from The Complete Joy of Home brewing by Charlie Papazian. 3kg dark liquid extract 340g crystal 10L 225g chocolate malt 56g Cascade hops @60 28g Willamette or Cascade @0 110g grated fresh ginger 11g US-05 Really beautiful drink.

We called it a Purple Nasty in the Oxford area.

Good tip. Thanks!

Hey Kadmium, Thanks so much for going to so much trouble and providing so much info. No offence taken all, I am fairly new to brewing this time around after doing everything wrong the last couple of times I've tried over the years. Oxidation has been my worst enemy since restarting, but I...

It's also not far off my expected FG and has dropped very bright already.

I don't normally make hoppy beers, and this one was really hoppy when I put it in the fermenter, but the hop aroma and taste has almost disappeared after 5 days. I figure breweries drop the yeast and then dry hop so the yeast doesn't affect hop flavour, and moving to a secondary was my way of...

I'm planning to transfer a APA out of the primary into the secondary for dry hopping off the yeast, but I'm really wary of oxidisation having lost a few batches that way. Do you reckon I could use my Sodastream and some tubing to introduce CO2 into the bottom of the secondary before transfer to...

There was a 2016 Vintage keg on tap at the Petersham Bowlo a week or so ago and it was outstanding. Long malt flavours and super smooth.

I normally use extra hops for a Coopers can so do a 10 min boil on those, and normally dissolve the dry malts in the water either before I add the hops or towards the end of the boil time. I also sometimes dissolve the can contents in there too after the boils done.