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by drjim
Thu Oct 17, 2024 6:46 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Crossmyloof retirement
Replies: 10
Views: 2025

Re: Crossmyloof retirement

It sounds heavenly compared to being an A&E Consultant in the NHS though!
by drjim
Thu Oct 17, 2024 3:41 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Crossmyloof retirement
Replies: 10
Views: 2025

Re: Crossmyloof retirement

Just spent £150 on lots of 100g yeast packs and shedload of hops. I aspire to partial retirement from the NHS next year and that's the sort of business I'd like to run as a hobby/sideline to help me stay occupied when I fully retire. Sadly geography and time would preclude me asking for their financ...
by drjim
Sun Oct 06, 2024 4:58 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: Crossmyloof retirement
Replies: 10
Views: 2025

Re: Crossmyloof retirement

Hope someone buys the business, great source of yeast and hops.
by drjim
Sat Oct 05, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: Out by the Shed again
Replies: 0
Views: 1074

Out by the Shed again

Had a couple of days off work, Thursday was spent lifting roof tiles at the side of the house so I could insulate some pipes that run underneath and keep freezing up in winter, come to think of it I actually wasn't off - just fitted it around 4 hours of work meetings on teams! So yesterday was more ...
by drjim
Wed Sep 04, 2024 8:06 pm
Forum: Hops
Topic: Creating a whirlpool for pellet hops.
Replies: 10
Views: 3610

Re: Creating a whirlpool for pellet hops.

Hop spider? I recently started using the spider again, but I'm relaxed about hop pellets going in the fermenter. If you don't have any big leaf hops the pellet bits don't need a filter, they settle into a lump at the bottom of the kettle, especially if you give it a good swirling. I find they help t...
by drjim
Mon Aug 05, 2024 4:28 pm
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: Been busy!
Replies: 8
Views: 5471

Re: Been busy!

Got 27L of dark brown Belgian/quadrupel underway yesterday. Despite temperatures being around 18C overnight I found it this morning heating itself to 32 degrees and blocking the airlock with Yeast, which proved that my electrical box conduit glands seal very well as the stainless fermenter was tryin...
by drjim
Wed Jul 31, 2024 1:45 pm
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: Been busy!
Replies: 8
Views: 5471

Re: Been busy!

It actually got worse, I had taken test samples from the fermenter tap a couple of times before bottling day for the VB, and after the last one a slug must have climbed into the tap body for a drink. I stuck the hose on and let it rip down to the bottling stick. Opaque hose and stainless bottling wa...
by drjim
Sat Jul 27, 2024 10:20 am
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: Been busy!
Replies: 8
Views: 5471

Re: Been busy!

The perils of outdoor brewing!
by drjim
Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:39 pm
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: Been busy!
Replies: 8
Views: 5471

Been busy!

Over the last month or so I've made the following... 27L of. Simcoe extra pale ale Smash with a belgian yeast. Butlers simcoe smash belgian yeast = BUSSBY 25L of my VB clone, used up the last of my pride of ringwood hops 27L of an IPA recipe using CML tropical England hops 50ish L of my BUMPA best b...
by drjim
Fri Jun 14, 2024 10:09 am
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: 2 batches poured down the drain!
Replies: 14
Views: 7264

Re: 2 batches poured down the drain!

I think I worked out why the stout went wrong, giving the stainless klarstein fermenter a good clean before putting a batch of IPA in it on Tuesday. Despite it having all been cleaned and left soaking in chemclean, the lid smelt horrible. I realised there was a load of gunge behind the lid seal whic...
by drjim
Wed Jun 05, 2024 7:13 pm
Forum: Grain Brewing
Topic: "British Helles" - Any ideas?
Replies: 8
Views: 3226

Re: "British Helles" - Any ideas?

I generally use crossmyloof brew kolsch yeast for lagerish stuff in the summer. I did do some very nice lager and vienna lager in Feb with Bigger jugs pils yeast, all done at ambient in the shed so the lagers were 11-15 degrees for a month and as I say very nice. The kolsch stuff works fine at UK sp...
by drjim
Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: Kveik Bitter
Replies: 8
Views: 2653

Re: Kveik Bitter

How did it turn out?
by drjim
Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: 2 batches poured down the drain!
Replies: 14
Views: 7264

Re: 2 batches poured down the drain!

Fermentation is at ambient in the chosen room! Guinnish was under the stairs at about 20 degrees, the bitter was in the boiler room on the floor with its temperature sticker showing 20 as well. The previous lagers were done in the shed in Feb/March so very cool slow lager fermentation as it should b...
by drjim
Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:18 am
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: 2 batches poured down the drain!
Replies: 14
Views: 7264

Re: 2 batches poured down the drain!

I built a HERMS thing a couple of years ago which has a 20L buffalo boiler wrapped up in foil insulation as the heat source, acopper coil in there heat exchanges to the mash tun. For the HERMS batches the probe was sat in the 20L tank rather than the tun itself. Previously I just had the thermostat ...
by drjim
Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:52 pm
Forum: Brewdays
Topic: 2 batches poured down the drain!
Replies: 14
Views: 7264

Re: 2 batches poured down the drain!

It was bang on first time but maybe changing the probe messed it up. I'll see what temps it actually runs at next time.