potof4x
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Hello.
Have just started brewing after 4 year break. Used to brew in the garden shed @ 26 degrees plus and never got good results. Have insulated my house and now have a constant 18 to 20 degrees up here on the Darling Downs. Hoping to do better at this temp, have done plenty of research on here, have just ordered some US-05 yeast looking at getting hops and grains shortly, after i figure out what i like of my current brews.
Ok. Have just bottled a coopers real ale kit made, 1kg csr brew sugar kit yeast to kit directions, primary for 3 weeks. Tastes out of the fermentor better than any of my previous "high temp" efforts of years ago. Patiently waiting now for carbonation and condition to improve. Looking to improve next batch I boiled Real ale can and a BE2 with 8L of water for 15min, looking for "hot break' then chilled in tub of ice to form 'cold break'. When added to fermentor I noticed in bottom of boil pot 1mm spheres of fatty stuff, which went down the sink. 3rd brew and more research bought me to a 'toucan' of coopers draught. When boiled with 8L of water then chilled, as before, in addition to the fatty spheres there was a cupful of stuff about the constinency of cold lumpy gravy, into the drain it went too. Both cans did not expire until 2011.
So my questions are What are these two substances? Am I wasting my time boiling extract cans if I am not adding hops or brew enhancers? What is the best/ easiest method then for mixing a toucan?
Looking foward to tasting the results anyway, and improving technique and BEER using a few more bits with the help of this forum.
Have just started brewing after 4 year break. Used to brew in the garden shed @ 26 degrees plus and never got good results. Have insulated my house and now have a constant 18 to 20 degrees up here on the Darling Downs. Hoping to do better at this temp, have done plenty of research on here, have just ordered some US-05 yeast looking at getting hops and grains shortly, after i figure out what i like of my current brews.
Ok. Have just bottled a coopers real ale kit made, 1kg csr brew sugar kit yeast to kit directions, primary for 3 weeks. Tastes out of the fermentor better than any of my previous "high temp" efforts of years ago. Patiently waiting now for carbonation and condition to improve. Looking to improve next batch I boiled Real ale can and a BE2 with 8L of water for 15min, looking for "hot break' then chilled in tub of ice to form 'cold break'. When added to fermentor I noticed in bottom of boil pot 1mm spheres of fatty stuff, which went down the sink. 3rd brew and more research bought me to a 'toucan' of coopers draught. When boiled with 8L of water then chilled, as before, in addition to the fatty spheres there was a cupful of stuff about the constinency of cold lumpy gravy, into the drain it went too. Both cans did not expire until 2011.
So my questions are What are these two substances? Am I wasting my time boiling extract cans if I am not adding hops or brew enhancers? What is the best/ easiest method then for mixing a toucan?
Looking foward to tasting the results anyway, and improving technique and BEER using a few more bits with the help of this forum.