Hello beer lovers,
I've been reading and lurking for a few weeks now. So thanks for all the tips.
I'm just about to start my third brew - a belgian dubbel. For which I've had help from the admirable Colin, and garr... I forget his name - dreadlock dude from peakie home brew. (its really crap that I forget Mr Ds name, because it feels like he's spent hours with me - I got colin from the docket - and his main contribution was sympathy with my lack of notice that a 6 pack of red ale I drank while cooking a curry last week was 7.5% and consequently resulted in blotto-ness(does that have a hyphen - I think it should). Also as far as acknowledgements go - A HUGE shout to Newtown clown - (I hope thats OK marty?) - he really got me on the road - I think he was sick of me drinking his brew and getting nothing in return ( apart fom my scintillating conversation of course - which - as everybody knows - gets better and better with every schooner).
Sooo... the beer...
This time I was convinced I needed to make a yeast starter for a belgian dubbel (upsold again :|). So I got the liquid trappist yeast, 2 litre jar, a bung and an airlock - no wait - that got left out, d'oh. I remember you guys had been talking about the use of cling film on your primarys - so I figured that might be a good substitute. A quick call back to peakie for confidence, and away I went - hopefully the iodophor soaking I gave everything multiple times is good enough and its in the $80 second hand fermenting fridge for a coupla days, before dumping (is this where I use the word pitching?) into a wort of ready made belgian dubbel (looks like a 4 litre oil container) and a packet of belgian dark candi sugar.
Nearly finished fermenting (down .001 in the ast 24hrs) an american brown ale, with hops added on the third day (although I misread the packet and put the teabag in the compost not the brew - doh - again - but it still got a good dose of ten minute tea - I'm pretty sure I can taste it in the hydrometre thingy). Anyway - it is already tasting yummy.
in bottles last weekend the original birthday present (took me a year to get to it - how slack is that!) mangrove jack generic lager can with something that I'm told resembles an ale yeast, anyway - before bottling tasting after the hydro reading gave something that was ALMOST as good as VB... hooray! (as in hooray for sarcasm) (Nah - should be fine).
So thats my beer - so far - I cant believe how interesting chemistry is - if only there had been a beer slant in first year uni - I may have passed and I wouldn't have become a geographer!
As for the subject heading, I live in Bexley (near sydney airport) and am quite a huge fan of Red Dwarf. I have fantasies of creating a label based on this with the london jets zero gravity football team figuring prominently.
As you might be able to tell - it took a six pack for me to actually sit down and write a (some might say long winded) introduction. well thats all gone - I have moved onto the left over wine that the girls had at the Australia day bbq.... Mmmm rose
who else has an alcohol problem on this site?
Cheers Big Ears
Steve
I've been reading and lurking for a few weeks now. So thanks for all the tips.
I'm just about to start my third brew - a belgian dubbel. For which I've had help from the admirable Colin, and garr... I forget his name - dreadlock dude from peakie home brew. (its really crap that I forget Mr Ds name, because it feels like he's spent hours with me - I got colin from the docket - and his main contribution was sympathy with my lack of notice that a 6 pack of red ale I drank while cooking a curry last week was 7.5% and consequently resulted in blotto-ness(does that have a hyphen - I think it should). Also as far as acknowledgements go - A HUGE shout to Newtown clown - (I hope thats OK marty?) - he really got me on the road - I think he was sick of me drinking his brew and getting nothing in return ( apart fom my scintillating conversation of course - which - as everybody knows - gets better and better with every schooner).
Sooo... the beer...
This time I was convinced I needed to make a yeast starter for a belgian dubbel (upsold again :|). So I got the liquid trappist yeast, 2 litre jar, a bung and an airlock - no wait - that got left out, d'oh. I remember you guys had been talking about the use of cling film on your primarys - so I figured that might be a good substitute. A quick call back to peakie for confidence, and away I went - hopefully the iodophor soaking I gave everything multiple times is good enough and its in the $80 second hand fermenting fridge for a coupla days, before dumping (is this where I use the word pitching?) into a wort of ready made belgian dubbel (looks like a 4 litre oil container) and a packet of belgian dark candi sugar.
Nearly finished fermenting (down .001 in the ast 24hrs) an american brown ale, with hops added on the third day (although I misread the packet and put the teabag in the compost not the brew - doh - again - but it still got a good dose of ten minute tea - I'm pretty sure I can taste it in the hydrometre thingy). Anyway - it is already tasting yummy.
in bottles last weekend the original birthday present (took me a year to get to it - how slack is that!) mangrove jack generic lager can with something that I'm told resembles an ale yeast, anyway - before bottling tasting after the hydro reading gave something that was ALMOST as good as VB... hooray! (as in hooray for sarcasm) (Nah - should be fine).
So thats my beer - so far - I cant believe how interesting chemistry is - if only there had been a beer slant in first year uni - I may have passed and I wouldn't have become a geographer!
As for the subject heading, I live in Bexley (near sydney airport) and am quite a huge fan of Red Dwarf. I have fantasies of creating a label based on this with the london jets zero gravity football team figuring prominently.
As you might be able to tell - it took a six pack for me to actually sit down and write a (some might say long winded) introduction. well thats all gone - I have moved onto the left over wine that the girls had at the Australia day bbq.... Mmmm rose
who else has an alcohol problem on this site?
Cheers Big Ears
Steve
