Brewing With Total Confidence
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Is that Krausen? No movement over three days with the gravity. Bottled and it sat 4 days at 18c. Now outside in the cold bin cupboard so no danger...
Hope all brewing brothers and sisters enjoyed Xmas and will have a great New Year...whatever shape it takes. My Chocoffee Oatmeal worked out well...
Bottled up the Chocoffee Stout. Gravity hadn't moved since Thursday. Actually, the sample tasted a bit astringent... Dumped 200g of coffee beans...
Hey TrialBen. Thanks for the post. I reckon that champers yeast has munched through all the extra sugar and maybe a bit more as it is reading a...
Took a sample earlier for a gravity reading and had a taste. Barely detectable vanilla. So 35ml of supermarket vanilla essence (10% vanilla...
Hydrometer. So the readings are somewhere around there.:D But, I will know if it is in exactly the same place in three days.
And...curiosity got the better of me. Just took a gravity reading and it is a smidgen lower than when I added the sugar solution. Now sitting at...
Cheers Nosybear. Sounds all logical and good. I forgot to mention that we had a cold snap and despite having a temp controller and a heating...
Thanks HighVoltageMan! I have read that Champagne yeast is used to mop up left over sugars after high abv fermentations, but never read about the...
Thanks Frankenbrewer. I hear you. I had no idea Champagne / sparkling wine yeast were so harmful to the ale yeast. Another one to learn from. This...
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, before reading this I added roughly double the amount that was too much for your brew. So, I am hoping that...
Thanks for the reply. I have added about 1.5% of a cheap supermarket vanilla essence that contained 10% vanilla extract so I'm reasonably sure...
'Help, I have a stuck fermentation...aargghhhh' probably not the rarest question on here...but bear with me. The Chocoffee Stout: <iframe...
Cheers guys. Like the idea of varying it per bottle. Seems like a good idea to nail down the amount. Or, I suppose you could scale it up to put...
So, the Chocoffee Oatmeal Stout is into its second week of fermentation and the yeasties are munching their way down to target-ish FG. I've read...
Very glad to hear that my brother found two bottles I had brewed up two years ago! They had been kept well, dark and cool and were great. So that...
After two weeks my Banoffee dunkelweizen turned out to be Toffee-bomb dunkelweizen. Mere hint of banana but tons and tons of toffee. I really like...
Also...just found out that coffee has anti-bacterial qualities. So shouldn't be any danger of infection by dropping it straight into the...
Cheers Mark. I am quite tempted to throw some ground coffee in the boil (5mins). For a 20 litre batch, do you reckon 100g is enough for a...
Cheers guys appreciate all the input. Looks like a lot of ways it could be done. I think I will just drop them in whole for 12hrs and have a taste...
