Recent content by jakeperks

Genius. By definition I have plenty of beer to hand!

Simple and elegant. I like it!

I've never stored them together. Not because I was aware it would ruin it, but because it was more convenient, so it's good to know I accidentally did the right thing there!

The tubing's as tight as can be. That's an interesting theory about the CO2, but I fear it was more likely to be air.

I thought it had developed a problem, but I tested it later with water and it was fine. I can only imagine that there was a huge amount of resistance because of the hop sack and the vacuum created by the siphon overcame the seal drawing air in. If there's one thing I've learned tonight then it's...

I have a bottling bucket, that's what I was racking to. The problem with the sediment is that some was suspended and hadn't settled after three weeks, which is something that I haven't come across before.

Sadly I have none of those. If it's undrinkable I'll just have to chalk it up to experience,

A constant stream of bubbles. Quite a lot of air.

I bottled my third batch tonight. The beer had some sediment that refused to settle, so I decided to attach a hop bag to the end of my auto siphon to filter it out. However, I think the resistance it created caused air to get sucked in through the outer tube, which got mixed in with the beer as...

And at around 8.3% you won't really care after a pint or three :-)

+1. Beersmith costs about the same as a couple of buckets or a brew's worth of ingredients.

I'm one brew in and tried to bottle with a siphon + wand. Never again. I bought another bucket, drilled a hole, attached a tap + wand and will bottle from that from now on. As above, priming solution into bottling bucket, swirl beer in from FV via autosyphon (without splashing), then bottle.

I used this yeast last Saturday. Lag was short and there was plenty of airlock activity within a few hours, which was vigorous for about two days, then slowed down and is non-existent now, 6 days later. The temperature was steady at around 63-64. I haven't taken a gravity reading yet, so I don't...

I learned that one large marble is not heavy enough to weigh down a bagful of hops, which is now floating on top of the beer in my bucket. Guess I'll have to turn the bag over occasionally so all the hops get contact with the liquid.

I've only done three brews so far and I've used tap water with a precautionary campden tablet added (actually only part of a tablet, crushed). The water round here is fairly hard and not entirely dissimilar to Burton water, so that's fine for pale ales, my favourite style. The beer's great. If...