Cheers, I find 10 gallons is about the limit for a decent boil on the buffalo, unless you use the lid of course, but I'd rather not.

Haha!

This was my strong English bitter. 15 gallon SS brewpan on my 3kw buffalo Induction hob.

Thanks High Voltage Dude- I'd love to pitch the yeast right now but I've got beer coming out of my ears at the minute so it's going to be 4 weeks until next brew day I reckon. I'm trying to get through 7 gallons of DIPA but it's hard to hit it without getting seriously arseholed!! There's loads...

Thanks- would you do that even if you're not brewing for 6 weeks?

Ok thanks, so should I make a starter now and then store that in the fridge, rather than just the skimmed yeast in cooled boiling water that it's in now?

Here's the yeast I collected..

Thanks for the replies guys, I've just taken a reading: a rather yeasty 1.018. According to the calc it should finish at 1.016, so hopefully it's still not quite done. My malt bill was: 16.2lb marris otter (90%) 7oz munich (2.4%) 14oz heritage crystal 120 (4.9%) 7oz cara red (2.4%) I mashed...

Hi there, I've currently got an 8 gallon British strong bitter on the go (OG: 1.060) and I've used wyeast 1318. Yesterday, 6 days after brewing, i skimmed all the yeast off the top and then refitted the lid, and squirted a load of CO2 in through the blow off tube. I got 2 jar fulls and put them...

Cool cheers, I'll let you know how it goes. Stay safe.

Oh that looks well nice! Cheers for the replies guys and I was being sarcastic about the distance, but that's something that us Brits do every day! I guess being a fairly clean and flocculent yeast, temp isn't much of a consideration regarding esters? I am planning on fermenting at 20 deg c (168 f)

Cool, a short distance from me then! Do either of you have much experience using safale 05 yeast? I understand it's very common but I have only used wyeast 1272 on beers like the one I'm about to do.

Nice, I want to get a keg system going eventually. Are you in the states? I'm right smack bang in the middle of marris otter land (Norfolk, uk)

Yes definitely helpful thanks! Your brew looks tasty- similar hops to mine. Funny I've got simcoe and was wondering if I should add them to the mix. I thought maybe too piney for the golden promise malt?

TBH it was originally a DIPA recipe but I've decided to make it more quaffable! Perhaps I should back off the IBU's a bit and use some cascade. I've got no end of various hops..