Netflyer

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"We'll think of all the friends we know and drink to all worth drinking to."

Future:
*Yooper's Hoppy AA/Malty APA that her HWMBO likes best.
*Orphy's Mild Mannered Ale
*Teagues Pt. Creations

Primaries:
Teagues Pt. Stout (1.051)
Full Owl ESB (niquejim's)
Aberdeen Session Haus Ale (Biermuncher's)
Boddington's Bitter Clone (Orfy's)

Bottled:
Pliny the Elder AHS Clone (1.075 OG)
Guinness Clone (Riclarke's)
Boddington's Bitter Clone (Orfy's)
Basement Baltic Honey Porter

togabear

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Gonna try this next. Have you ever kegged it?

Netflyer

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Never Kegged it but I do carbonate with about 80 grams of corn sugar gives about 2 volumes to 5 gallons which is a tad high for an ESB but some would consider it really low in general. There are threads about English bitters and carbonation on here and the consensus is that 1.4-2.0 volumes is pretty common with perhaps a tad more in a bottled version of most popular English brews. I've had Fuller's out of the bottle here in the states and out of the tap in England and the tap version is just a bit (but noticible) less carb'd. Bottom line shoot for a carb that will give you a short head but you still always have a slight cloud on top of the brew the whole glass down

BTW that victory malt I use is American, I believe it is from Breiss

http://www.annapolishomebrew.com/shopGamerican.asp Item #18104 about 1/2 way down the page...
www.rebelbrewer.com might have it too (I didn't check) and chances are he is less expensive (place rocks).

Let me know how it turns out.

__________________
"We'll think of all the friends we know and drink to all worth drinking to."

Future:
*Yooper's Hoppy AA/Malty APA that her HWMBO likes best.
*Orphy's Mild Mannered Ale
*Teagues Pt. Creations

Primaries:
Teagues Pt. Stout (1.051)
Full Owl ESB (niquejim's)
Aberdeen Session Haus Ale (Biermuncher's)
Boddington's Bitter Clone (Orfy's)

Bottled:
Pliny the Elder AHS Clone (1.075 OG)
Guinness Clone (Riclarke's)
Boddington's Bitter Clone (Orfy's)
Basement Baltic Honey Porter

togabear

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Thanks for the information! I have got the same victory malt already so that's perfect. I'll tell you how this goes when I brew it, but I have to drink some kegs empty first. I'll probably do this in about a month.

damdaman

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Hey, thanks for the recipe. I brewed this on 12/19 and had a pretty active fermentation, which has died off now (been 10 days now). I only used 7lbs of extract, and I'm concerned I didn't top off the water in the fermenter enough, as I used 2 gallons of water in the boil and then added 2 more to the fermenter (for some reason assuming that the extract and other ingredients made up the difference!).

Anyway I ended up with a slightly higher OG, at 1.062. Definitely could be explained if I didn't add enough water at top-off.

I took a reading today and the SG was 1.021, significantly higher than I had hoped for, especially since I started with a higher OG than expected. I know it's possible there's still fermentation going on and it will continue to drop but the high SG makes me a little worried.

I pitched at 70 degrees with 1 swollen smack-pack of Wyeast 1968.

Any thoughts? Should I just let it sit another 10 days as prescribed and see if the SG continues to drop?

The sample I tasted after taking the reading was delicious btw.

Netflyer

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I always leave this for 21 days and have never taken an intermediate gravity so I'm really not sure of the progress after 10 days. 1968 has high flocculation but at 70 degrees I'd expect it to krausen fast but continue to condition the brew for many days thereafter. So, I guess my answer is yes, it probably will continue to drop. That said, you were 10 gravity points higher than the recipe which will change the hops profile too. You will end up with a higher ABV, maltier brew but I'm sure it will still be good. A word of caution, when you carbonate - if you bottle with sugar, consider the fact that the 1968 is faily thick and will combine with about .5 gal of your 4 gallons. So figure your carbonation based on about 3.5 to 3.7 gallons. Means if I used 2.9 for 5 gallons you would use about 2 grams. That may seem like a small amount but trust me...

Good luck with it, and let me know how it finishes... Let it condition in the bottle at least 2 wks but 3 is better. Esp. with a gravity over 1.06...

__________________
"We'll think of all the friends we know and drink to all worth drinking to."

Future:
*Yooper's Hoppy AA/Malty APA that her HWMBO likes best.
*Orphy's Mild Mannered Ale
*Teagues Pt. Creations

Primaries:
Teagues Pt. Stout (1.051)
Full Owl ESB (niquejim's)
Aberdeen Session Haus Ale (Biermuncher's)
Boddington's Bitter Clone (Orfy's)

Bottled:
Pliny the Elder AHS Clone (1.075 OG)
Guinness Clone (Riclarke's)
Boddington's Bitter Clone (Orfy's)
Basement Baltic Honey Porter

damdaman

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Update: took a reading today SG = 1.019, so it's still dropping, albeit slowly. This is encouraging! I plan to bottle next weekend, so this should be ready to drink about the end of the month.

Netflyer

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Well, even BeerSmith thought this brew should finish at 1.016 my last batch finished at 1.013 but I've brewed this several times and it does finish between 1.013 and 1.017 ... if you were 10 pts higher to start you may not get down to 1.017 .. You know the deal, as long as you get 3 days of the same gravity she is probably done... I go 21 days and never worry about whether it is done or not, it's done!

Good luck and keep me up to date!

__________________
"We'll think of all the friends we know and drink to all worth drinking to."

Future:
*Yooper's Hoppy AA/Malty APA that her HWMBO likes best.
*Orphy's Mild Mannered Ale
*Teagues Pt. Creations

Primaries:
Teagues Pt. Stout (1.051)
Full Owl ESB (niquejim's)
Aberdeen Session Haus Ale (Biermuncher's)
Boddington's Bitter Clone (Orfy's)

Bottled:
Pliny the Elder AHS Clone (1.075 OG)
Guinness Clone (Riclarke's)
Boddington's Bitter Clone (Orfy's)
Basement Baltic Honey Porter

damdaman

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Just wanted to give you an update, this has been bottled about 3 weeks now, and I served it at a party last night, and it was a hit. One friend in particular couldn't get enough of it, sent her home with a couple bottles.

It's very smooth and easy to drink, I like it!

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Primary: Dead Guy clone, Cyser, AmMO SMaSH
Bottled: English Ordinary Bitter, Apfelwein, Vanilla Bourbon Porter, Chief Niwot's Mead, American Amber

Netflyer

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Glad you like it! Thanks for the kind words

__________________
"We'll think of all the friends we know and drink to all worth drinking to."

Future:
*Yooper's Hoppy AA/Malty APA that her HWMBO likes best.
*Orphy's Mild Mannered Ale
*Teagues Pt. Creations

Primaries:
Teagues Pt. Stout (1.051)
Full Owl ESB (niquejim's)
Aberdeen Session Haus Ale (Biermuncher's)
Boddington's Bitter Clone (Orfy's)

Bottled:
Pliny the Elder AHS Clone (1.075 OG)
Guinness Clone (Riclarke's)
Boddington's Bitter Clone (Orfy's)
Basement Baltic Honey Porter