Be Excellent To Each Other

Do want. And thanks for the tip on fizzyness

Fizziness is not the main benefit of the champagne yeast, it is the alcohol. It changes it from about 2.5% to 4%

Ordered a Cooper's Dark ale and Youngs Harvest Yorkshire bitter. Didn't order enough sugar, though, so I'll have see if my friend has any. So, that's another 80 pints of beer for £40. And my time. Looking forward to the Dark Ale.

tried some of my friend's beer last night, after we swapped. it was awesome. Mine is shit in comparison. I don't think I'm fermenting it for long enough, or he's buying better ingredients.

Nevertheless, I began 40 pints of a dark ale last night. And next week 40 pints golden ale.

EDIT: Word is; there's no bubbling action yet, but it has only been 13 hours. Worried.

Uh-oh. That's what happened to mine.

I'm hoping that it's being sluggish. Still, it's only £12 if it has gone tits up.

Room temp is 18. Possibly just a slow starter. All yeasts are different.

MrsA reports a 'slight soft gurgling'.

Call the doctor.

Give it a bit of a spin and try and get the yeast moving, you possibly didn't aerate the wort enough prior to adding the yeast. If it stalls, you can always add another batch of yeast to see if it gets going again.
Don't attempt to aerate now though, you will introduce bacteria which will kill the yeast.

Congratulations!

I can get you swedish ciders.

7% kopparberg is deadly.

Your main problem is that you are in Sweden. If you come back to the UK though, be bringing plenty of Salmiak (saltlakkris) (or whatever it is in Swedish) back with you, please. Especially the little diamond ones.

How is being in sweden a problem?!

You cannot bring me ciders.

If shipping wasnt so damn expensive I could ship some. But it cost me £30 to send a 2kg box of goodies to my parents at chirstmas

That is why you being in Sweden is a problem.

Catch up, lad

Move back, leave all your stuff behind. Bring Cider. And Salmiak.

30£ would buy a flight, come to the cottage!

7% Kopparberg and salmiak-kossu for me pls.

Find me tickets for 30quid return from Umeå and I'll come. I've found £80 each way

Ooooh, I can absolutely make that (or a pretty good version of) for you with salmiak, vodka and a freezer...

Beer is violently fermenting. Most happy. The IPA has matured very well, too.

I am making flower beer. Well, elderflower champagne, but it's sort of beer, if you ignore the meanings of words in english.

Using HFW's recipe. He said to add a pinch of yeast after a couple of days if it hadn't started foaming, so I added one. a day later it still wasn't, so I added another (generous) one. It's now practically fizzing. This may be a strong batch - evidenced by the fact I can smell booze out of it already, and it's only 5 days into its two weeks..

Beer explosion occured at some point yesterday. Kitchen stinks and floor is sticky. Reports indicate a rearguard action being fought, possiblity that 95% of remainder currently corralled with small pockets of resistance.

Sorry, but

I'll text you the photo, later.

What exploded, the current brewing batch, or an older bottle>?

Current batch. It's shooting out of the bubble trap. It's fermenting very quickly due to the warm temperatures, I guess.

Joans has just bought a wine kit. There could be some interesting posting next weekend.

wine-in-a-week, how bad can it be?
Seriously, only a week to make it? Does it gain flavour if you leave it like beer? I am guessing you don't have any French oak barrels to let it mature in?

I've really got to bottle my beer tomorrow. It's slowed down with the bubbling.

Bottled up the latest batch. And tidied!

In the kitchen I now have undergoing secondary fermentation:

22 litres Pilsner Lager and 22 litres IPA.

In the garage I have:

16 litres Dark Ale and 16 litres Yorkshire Bitter.

Should get me through until the end of August.

taking some to the beexbeque?

I certainly can bring a volume and selection, sure.

Wil Wheaton's latest post about his homebrewing attempt is really rather touching. Possibly the nicest thing you'll read this week.

For the homebrewers and historians of science amongst you:

And another update from Mr Wheaton regarding his homebrews.

My lovely Missus has bought me a home brewing kit, which may well be put into production this weekend, ready for Christmas. I wondering if I should put some festive stuff in - cinnamon and cloves or nutmeg or turkey or something - for added seasonal wintery deliciousness.

If you do it this weekend, it will be done way before Christmas..

Squirt in stunning inability to calculate dates shocker! I've actually got time for 2 lots, I reckon. Maybe I'll do a plain one first, to ensure I actually know what I'm doing.

Hot water, stuff from can, sugar, stir, cold water, stir, lid on, wait, bottle, wait, drink, fall over.

Does anyone have a favourite homebrew online store? I'm gonna need some bottles soon, and I fancy wine-making as well, so some demijohns and a smaller fermenter will be needed.

I ordered stuff through amazon, seemed to be about the same price and had the convenience (and, to my mind, the safety) of amazon, rather than a website I'd not heard of before.

Tesco Value Still Water bottles have the advantage of containing sterile water, and being sterile, so that's what I used, but I'm cheap.

The experienced home-brewer I know uses those as well.

Except now he knows me and gets as many Diet Coke bottles as he wants for free.

Have to say. unless you have a large amount of storage, don't bother with glass bottles, I have loads lying around, and for the few times I use the,, they just take up a load of space, and don't work amazingly better than a plastic bottle. Aternatiavely buy a keg.

Also, experienced home-brewer ('Dave') makes sure to pour off a bunch of half-litre fizzy-pop bottles because his job involves a few days a week of travelling and therefore staying in hotels, so he's always got a cheap night in without staying sober.

Not beers.








That was step 1. Got 25 litres!

Kalmar has all the best toys.

Ooooo!

Wow...