Jim's Beer Kit

MashBag wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2024 3:50 pm

Halycon wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 01, 2024 7:05 am

Backsweeten with G180 Stevia and Gum Arabic
The Stevia does not contain the bitterness

Avoid. Neither of these are good for you. These are the shite the use in hyper processed food.

Just make a good natural cider.

But are they actually bad for you??

Guy

This is a water report from Wallybrew on here. Dated 16/02/2021. On brewday I measure the alkalinity using a Hanna meter. The new value goes into the spreadsheet a friend set up for me and the revised numbers appear. There may not be a directly proportional correlation between the alkalinity and the...

... Gratifyingly, the temporary hardness (which you say is identical to alkalinity) calculates as 185.83 in the Defuddler. Close enough to the 188 I started with! ... The details you provided never required you to dig into the spreadsheet at all. Eee, I knew you'd give the "Defuddler" a good workou...

Right, I've downloaded the defuddler, found out how to unlock it and added my values in. Not to four decimal places, just one! The extra three are the result of the way the spreadsheet calculates the values after inputting the alkalinity as tested on brewday. So I round them. Gratifyingly, the tempo...

OK, here's my latest water. The alkalinity changes every brewday, so the other bits are changed by the same ratio. What I was hoping, though, was I could just open your defuddler and use it. Like Graham's thingy.

Or, to put another way, every brewday is different.

Guy

Thanks PeeBee, but I don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about!

Guy

Ummm--No idea! I click on the link in your signature and get two options to open. xlsx or development.xlsx. The situation with it being locked is the same whichever one I click on. Nice light blue hue to everything after clicking on the word 'locked'! No arrow appears next to, or anywhere near the '...

Hi PeeBee

How do I unlock your defuddler, please? It says 'locked' and, when I click on the word, the whole lot gets a blue background and nothing else happens.

Guy

Go to Graham's water treatment calculator on here and enter a water with no alkalinity or ions. Then select 'Bitter', or whatever you want, from the drop down menu, line 5. Then enter your desired final volume of beer in the bottom section called 'volume to be treated'. This will tell you how much o...

Just looked at the two Inkbirds I have. Neither has a detachable probe.

Does yours, or will you need to cut the cable or get inside the case to replace it?

Guy

Not sure about this, but I vaguely remember something about older Inkbirds having this problem. Don't know if it was the probe or the electronics.

Mine are about 4 years old and are problem free.

Perhaps a new one is the way to go.

Best of luck!

Guy

I think that the answer lies here. "I had stuck a supposedly waterproof probe on it - it's in a plastic tube which is clearly leaky as it's full of liquid" Much better to attach the probe to the outside of the FV. Or even better install a thermowell. Not sure, IPA. The probe was in the mash. Any in...

How does your temperature control system for the mash work, please, drjim?

Guy

Sympathies, drjim. Somehow it always feels personal when a batch of beer has to be chucked away. Getting rid of two batches is way beyond horrible. As to the reason: an infection has clearly ruined these two beers, but the question is why? Non-viable brewing yeast allowing wild yeast and bacteria to...

If the bittering:aroma hop ratio was only one value, you'd only get one type of beer. The only variations would be the malts used and the variety of hop used.

Vary it as much as you want, cc986. Brew beers to the taste and aroma you want.

Guy