Well, couple of nights ago I slung in the Yeast Vite and Dry Beer Enzyme. But, at 15c, I honestly don't feel I can expect the poor, cold wort to do anything. I can't blame Muntons for this one now. This is purely environmental. Cold environmental!
So, later today I'll go through the ritual with the Hydi again. I don't expect to find it's budged a degree. Then it's point break. That Wherry is coming out of my Electrim, one way or another. I Have To get at that 'stat, to set it up for 20c and get another brew in there.
So, here's what I'm thinking: I have this five gallon jerry can sitting here. Might it be worth draining the Wherry, through a pipe, as Jim suggests when kegging a brew, into that jerry and putting it aside for the time it takes to ferment out my next attempt? I could then keg the successful brew and pour the Wherry back into the FV. Only, this time, I'd have the wort at 20c constant and would give it a fresh SafAle and all the trimmings.
Worth a crack? Or might I just as well sling it down the sink? Frankly, I'm easy either way. But I'd rather not waste any more brew day time by reintroducing that sad and sorrowful Wherry if it's only likely to block up my FV Again and then turn bad on me anyway.
Opinions, please, gentlemen?
Wherry: Ditch's Last Ditch Effort
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Waffty
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If it's dropping or be it slowly, it may be an idea to leave it where it is, providing it hasn't been on the yeast for more than say 10 days.
If the location is too cold, you could try to increase the heat, my brews are in the garage, with a couple of beach towels wrapped round them & an ATC800 connected to a tube heater & my flash cooler. I had issues with my Wherry but managed to get it back into life by raising temp to 20 degrees.
Even then, I ended up dropping it into the keg at 1015, with some priming sugar for another couple of weeks. Then and only then did I get a decent brew out of it.
Just finished drinking it today & now the wife (whose never drunk a bitter in her life) is asking when I'm going to have another batch.
Keep the faith.
Darren.
If the location is too cold, you could try to increase the heat, my brews are in the garage, with a couple of beach towels wrapped round them & an ATC800 connected to a tube heater & my flash cooler. I had issues with my Wherry but managed to get it back into life by raising temp to 20 degrees.
Even then, I ended up dropping it into the keg at 1015, with some priming sugar for another couple of weeks. Then and only then did I get a decent brew out of it.
Just finished drinking it today & now the wife (whose never drunk a bitter in her life) is asking when I'm going to have another batch.
Keep the faith.
Darren.
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Thanks for that, Darren. I have a quilt round it but, I live in an unheated cottage, see? There's no way to warm that FV and no where warmer to put it. It's simply one of those lousy strokes of mistiming. How was any of us to know that glorious weather would just cut out, over night?
Ok. I'll leave it alone, again. In fact, as it happens; I emptied and rinsed that jerry can tonight - preparatory to possibly putting the Wherry in it. Urgh! Ditch didn't like what Ditch just saw! But I'd better go and explain that onto my " Bleach Vs Cooking Oil " Thread, elsewhere. But either way, that now leaves me with only two possible options. Leave it longer or sling it. It's not really offending me, being there. So I'll see what it does next.
Faith kept
Ok. I'll leave it alone, again. In fact, as it happens; I emptied and rinsed that jerry can tonight - preparatory to possibly putting the Wherry in it. Urgh! Ditch didn't like what Ditch just saw! But I'd better go and explain that onto my " Bleach Vs Cooking Oil " Thread, elsewhere. But either way, that now leaves me with only two possible options. Leave it longer or sling it. It's not really offending me, being there. So I'll see what it does next.
Faith kept
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Raising the FV higher? Kenny, that's a brilliantly simple idea, isn't it? 
If school taught me one thing, it's that " Hot air rises ". I seem to use that consideration an awful lot in my day to day life, for some obscure reason.
Anyway, fact is it's already sat on to of my range. So it's not as if it's sat directly on the concrete. That'd kill Anything stone dead!
Max; By the time I could get a fish tank heater here, I'll have kegged it, due to it finally struggling to a finish, or I'll have sinked it, due to a comedy of vile circumstances.
As it is? Either way it goes, I'll set the 'stat on the FV for a steady 20c, as soon as I empty it, and shall sail through my next brew Honestly, mate; It really Has just been " Teething Troubles " and acclimatisation to brewing in this situation.
Good god, when I got here a few years back I remember one of my lovely neighbours coming out of his way to simply ask how I was doing. This was a few weeks in. When I replied I was doing fine, he looked at me, hard, for a moment and then nodded. " That's alright then. " He said. " Only some people get here and just can't take the change in climate. " As the rain came down like stair rods. As it had since the day I'd arrived!
I'm a survivor. Just need to iron out these wrinkles and I'll be talking of the knock out tasty brews I've been producing lately - just like the rest of us here
Total Faith!
If school taught me one thing, it's that " Hot air rises ". I seem to use that consideration an awful lot in my day to day life, for some obscure reason.Anyway, fact is it's already sat on to of my range. So it's not as if it's sat directly on the concrete. That'd kill Anything stone dead!
Max; By the time I could get a fish tank heater here, I'll have kegged it, due to it finally struggling to a finish, or I'll have sinked it, due to a comedy of vile circumstances.
As it is? Either way it goes, I'll set the 'stat on the FV for a steady 20c, as soon as I empty it, and shall sail through my next brew
Honestly, mate; It really Has just been " Teething Troubles " and acclimatisation to brewing in this situation.Good god, when I got here a few years back I remember one of my lovely neighbours coming out of his way to simply ask how I was doing. This was a few weeks in. When I replied I was doing fine, he looked at me, hard, for a moment and then nodded. " That's alright then. " He said. " Only some people get here and just can't take the change in climate. " As the rain came down like stair rods. As it had since the day I'd arrived!
I'm a survivor. Just need to iron out these wrinkles and I'll be talking of the knock out tasty brews I've been producing lately - just like the rest of us here
Total Faith!
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The fridge would put out a significant but gentle amount of heat which would help tookenny850 wrote:Just an idea Ditch,but seeing as you live in unheated accomadation, is there any mileage in getting your wherry as high as possible, i also make wine and find that putting demijohns on top of the fridge(6ft or so) makes a lot of difference,usually a degree or three warmer up there
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My old gran (and most of my family on my mum's side) is from Rothsay. Liza's cottage on the island is bloody freezing all the time, and I bloody loved staying out there with her.
On the beech collecting cockles and razor shells in the morning, and good thick lamb stew with fresh baked bread in the evening.
Cold? I laugh at your cold.
On the beech collecting cockles and razor shells in the morning, and good thick lamb stew with fresh baked bread in the evening.
Cold? I laugh at your cold.