While The Wife's Away...

[Bribie G]

I was concerned about it at the time, stripped off and ran the hose over it after I capped the cubes. You can hardly see it now.


I'm having fun... Just added the hops.

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Yup that shrinkage can be embarrassing h34r:

 

[pants]

:lol: All cubed now, cleaned, put away... Beer o'clock! BeerTools Pro tells me that I got 80% efficiency! Wow!

 

[pants]

I've got these feelings... I've just made 119 litres of wort, and I feel like making more. If only I had the cubes and grain etc...

Am I addicted?

 

[buttersd70]

119L? That's a lot of beer.....maybe a visit from Butters is in order in a few weeks, to 'help' you to 'make room' for some new batches. :lol:

 

[pants]

119L? That's a lot of beer.....maybe a visit from Butters is in order in a few weeks, to 'help' you to 'make room' for some new batches. :lol:

Thanks for your kind offer... That'd be a great help! :icon_chickcheers:

 

[buttersd70]

Thanks for your kind offer... That'd be a great help! :icon_chickcheers:

Contrary to what some people would have you believe, I'm very public-spirited in that respect. :lol:

 

[BjornJ]

Removing everything you ever posted?

 

[lespaul]

what a journey

 

[Mantis]

Thats got me wondering how much I could squeeze out of my 50L kettle.
Using the sparge thing to get efficiency up sounds good as my eff is around 63% and nothing else I have tried will get it up.
Great stuff Pants :icon_cheers:

 

[Pollux]

Mantis.

I used to get similar eff%'s, then I took up a habit of mashing in with 2/3rds of my total required water and doing a bucket mashout/sparge with the other 1/3rd which I heat on the kitchen stove.

I've gone from consistent 60-65% to 75-80% virtually instantly.

 

[Bribie G]

Hey Pants, should be about bottled or kegged by now, how has it turned out?

 

[Mantis]

Mantis.

I used to get similar eff%'s, then I took up a habit of mashing in with 2/3rds of my total required water and doing a bucket mashout/sparge with the other 1/3rd which I heat on the kitchen stove.

I've gone from consistent 60-65% to 75-80% virtually instantly.

Sounds good Pollux, I will give it a try for sure. After squeezing the bag I put it in a 20L bucket so will mashout in it
Cheers :icon_chickcheers:

 

[pants]

Hey Pants, should be about bottled or kegged by now, how has it turned out?

The Australian Pale Ale has been bottled and kegged a week and a half, and the DrSmurto's Golden Ale has been bottled and kegged two and a half weeks. Both have come out beautifully. There were only seven stubbies of DrS' GA, so I'm tasting them sparingly, but it's delicious. There are four left, and the wife hasn't tasted it yet - might be the Christmas keg. A terrific recipe. Perhaps I'll get DrSmurto himself to critique my work? There were 18 longnecks of the Australian Pale Ale, and although it was only 6 days in the bottle when I tasted it, it was very nice, just as I expected, and quite similar to the last batch. I would say that my results are quite consistent. I did notice when packaging that the beer from the fermenter that had lots of trub tasted different from the two which had no trub. Not bad, just different. The bottles are from the with-trub fermenter. I'll allow a little more wastage next time, to pretty much eliminate trub from the fermenters, as I did with the DrS' GA.

I'm learning each time I brew, but I'm very happy with my results.

pants.

 

[drsmurto]

The Australian Pale Ale has been bottled and kegged a week and a half, and the DrSmurto's Golden Ale has been bottled and kegged two and a half weeks. Both have come out beautifully. There were only seven stubbies of DrS' GA, so I'm tasting them sparingly, but it's delicious. There are four left, and the wife hasn't tasted it yet - might be the Christmas keg. A terrific recipe. Perhaps I'll get DrSmurto himself to critique my work? There were 18 longnecks of the Australian Pale Ale, and although it was only 6 days in the bottle when I tasted it, it was very nice, just as I expected, and quite similar to the last batch. I would say that my results are quite consistent. I did notice when packaging that the beer from the fermenter that had lots of trub tasted different from the two which had no trub. Not bad, just different. The bottles are from the with-trub fermenter. I'll allow a little more wastage next time, to pretty much eliminate trub from the fermenters, as I did with the DrS' GA.

I'm learning each time I brew, but I'm very happy with my results.

pants.

If by critique you mean i get free beer than I'm up for that! :icon_drunk:

Always happy to provide feedback :icon_cheers: