bad keg turned good :)

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bad keg turned good :)

Post by Fil » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:45 pm

My last brewday before today was a use up the old stocks brew, and i had just under 5kg of pale malt and 2 lots of opened hops, bobek styrians(60-70g) and challenger(50g).. i split what was left of the bobeks into 1/3 and 2/3rds, and saved the 1/3rd portion for the last 15mins...

it was not a good brewday, HLT leaked, and i managed to clog my hop filter and poured just under 20l of 23?l in the neck of my fv thru a sieve..

i managed to clean the fv off and bung it in the fridge to ferment with s04, and the fridge had been set to stimulate my starter at 24C, i didnt change it or even look at it for 5 days, :( 'shame on me'! i decanted into 2ndry, It smelt a bit off-sour, pub carpet at 8am-ish, and set the temp to 12 for a week before crash cooling to 5 kegging and carbing.. on the upside it was just the keg to fil no bottles :) It smelt a bit off-sour, pub carpet at 8am-ish,

it smelt sour during the kegging as well, tho better? and the first sample post conditioning wasnt nice. i thought i had got some nasty flavours from the warm fermentation and perhaps some wild yeast in during my mucking about pouring the wort into the fv. and then i worried about the keg as i couldnt remember if i had rinsed it out with videne or not...

well today was brewday too and i have to have a pint when the boil is going and i tried a pint of the sour challenger/bobek bitter.. 3 weeks in its a dry and refreshing pint.. almost tart, but i dont have the beer vocab to desribe it, NICE works for me..

im just wating for the boil outside to reduce down and am contemplating a second pint..

no i just went n poured it :)
cheers..
ist update for months n months..
Fermnting: not a lot..
Conditioning: nowt
Maturing: Challenger smash, and a kit lager
Drinking: dry one minikeg left in the store
Coming Soon Lots planned for the near future nowt for the immediate :(

Lime Corridor

Re: bad keg turned good :)

Post by Lime Corridor » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:57 pm

I raise a glass to you Fil and raise one again to 'chance'. It's great when that happens, isn't it?

Cheers/sante/prost!

LC

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