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- Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:24 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Best use of controller probes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3354
Re: Best use of controller probes
I am now the proud owner of a shiny box fresh Inkbird 308 but could do with some informed advice best use of the probe? One of the Inkbirds uses will be to control the temperature of my mash but reading around the subject, there appears to be conflicting views on how best to achieve this? The obvio...
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:09 am
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Best use of controller probes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3354
Re: Best use of controller probes
I am now the proud owner of a shiny box fresh Inkbird 308 but could do with some informed advice best use of the probe? One of the Inkbirds uses will be to control the temperature of my mash but reading around the subject, there appears to be conflicting views on how best to achieve this? The obvio...
- Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:13 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3377
Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
Made my first beer in eons yesterday, spent all day yesterday doing it and iv just got in from work today and the thermometer strip is saying 32 [emoji853]. Will it at least be drinkable or is it facing certain doom Sent from my SM-G781B using Tapatalk Ale yeast can die at those temperatures, leavi...
- Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:09 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Effect of mashing with too much water
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6579
Re: Effect of mashing with too much water
Then you can do little better than to start here. Where you will learn that the pH of your starting water isn't important, it's the pH of your mash that counts.
- Sat May 22, 2021 8:20 am
- Forum: Home Brew Reviews
- Topic: Dennis King’s Galaxy Delight
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9095
- Tue May 18, 2021 2:46 pm
- Forum: Brewing Liquor
- Topic: How Much Water to Brew 500ml of Ale?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3712
Re: How Much Water to Brew 500ml of Ale?
Spare a thought for those that throw away perfectly good brewing water to eliminate minerals, some of which they are just going to put back later, by using an RO filter.
- Tue May 18, 2021 1:15 pm
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 29763
Re: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
Concerned you added "dregs in the bottom of the mash vessel". If they weren't boiled first it's a possible route to infection. They were but I should have quoted them as "dregs after boiling" as it's a Grainfather system. They had cooled but I gave them another "boil" on a hob top to make sure. The...
- Tue May 18, 2021 9:07 am
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 29763
Re: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
Concerned you added "dregs in the bottom of the mash vessel". If they weren't boiled first it's a possible route to infection.
- Mon May 17, 2021 5:52 pm
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 29763
Re: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
This - and this weekend’s brewing - has me thinking about yeast growth phase and subsequent fermentation phase. How do they know? If I pitch a yeast quantity at the smaller end of the scale, received wisdom is that the yeast get multiplying until there’s enough of the buggers to ferment the wort. I...
- Mon May 17, 2021 4:08 pm
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 29763
Re: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
Good luck. Interested to know how it turns out, particularly FG and % of attenuation achieved.
- Mon May 17, 2021 3:01 pm
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 29763
Re: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
Your second point is also worthy of comment. You don't "build up the cells quicker/better in a smaller volume of wort". In fact to the contrary. So the yeast cells grow faster in a larger volume of wort? I think you've mentioned this before in an analogy with the number of sheep in a field--or some...
- Mon May 17, 2021 1:23 pm
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 29763
Re: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
If you're saving 25% of the yeast cells you are reducing the potential pitch by 25% You don't need a second starter if the original is enough. Only if you have 125% of the starter that you need would it make sense and then you wouldn't need it for this Beer. You can save it to make a new starter in ...
- Mon May 17, 2021 10:46 am
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 29763
Re: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
Yep, thought the amount of yeast would be a potential issue. Hence, holding back 25% of it to try and build up more just in case the brew doesn't take off. I'll let you know how it goes. Cheers I don't see why you don't use all of it. If a fermentations stalls it's usually because it can no longer ...
- Sun May 16, 2021 10:01 pm
- Forum: Brewdays
- Topic: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 29763
Re: Ghost ship clone (BIAB)
1.069 is high gravity for any yeast. You're going to need as much as you can get.
- Mon May 10, 2021 9:49 pm
- Forum: Links
- Topic: Kegtrade.com
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9073