Are you?Mitchamitri wrote:... for your 90 minute boil you are supposed to leave the lid off the boiler...
I've often left the lid on on previous occasions. Why are you meant to leave the lid off?
Equipment - what's the minimum?
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Cheshire-cheese
Re: Equipment - what's the minimum?
I've often left the lid on on previous occasions. Why are you meant to leave the lid off?-
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Re: Equipment - what's the minimum?
Because Sulphur compounds are released which may result in an off taste apparently.Cheshire-cheese wrote:Why are you meant to leave the lid off?
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Cheshire-cheese
Re: Equipment - what's the minimum?
I've not found that so far 
but may well mend my ways to avoid the possibility in the future.
I had the lid off for the boil at the weekend and nearly had a nephew fall into it; would this taint the final brew?
but may well mend my ways to avoid the possibility in the future.I had the lid off for the boil at the weekend and nearly had a nephew fall into it; would this taint the final brew?
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Mitchamitri
Re: Equipment - what's the minimum?
ALso, leaving the lid off enhances the brewing smell and makes it very clear to the neighbours that you are brewing and, therefore, better than them.
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farmhousekeg
Re: Equipment - what's the minimum?
Then one other essential piece of equipment will be a baby minder, to avoid serious accidents with all that boiling wort around!Gill wrote: Seriously, I have a two bedroom flat, a partner with carboys and demijohns everywhere, and a very adventurous baby.
Gill x
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Gill
Re: Equipment - what's the minimum?
That's what his daddy's for...and the lovely harness chair he (the baby, not my other half!) likes to watch me brew from after I've finished the "hot" bit with kits. I think he's going to be a brewer when he's older. He should probably start on ginger beer rather than, say, Headcracker though....farmhousekeg wrote:Then one other essential piece of equipment will be a baby minder, to avoid serious accidents with all that boiling wort around!Gill wrote: Seriously, I have a two bedroom flat, a partner with carboys and demijohns everywhere, and a very adventurous baby.
Gill x
Given the various suggestions of me finding a friendly AG-brewer to try the whole thing out, I might well do that! For future reference, anyone know any tame, non-biting AG types in Edinburgh?
Thanks everyone.
Gill x
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Gill
Re: Equipment - what's the minimum?
You might start a new beer-brewing taste craze...Cheshire-cheese wrote:I had the lid off for the boil at the weekend and nearly had a nephew fall into it; would this taint the final brew?