Recent content by markcurling

Great thanks for the tips. I'll see how many I can get through!

Hey guys, I'm from London but am in New York for a week from tonight until 1st. Any suggestions from your combined fountain of knowledge of beers to seek out/places to go/specific events happening this coming week? Thank you!!

Here is my over-carbed stout - can't remember the exact circumstances but thankfully I only had two of them (his brother exploded!)

Wort/DME/sugar/crap dried on to the bulb of the hydro has thrown mine a long way off before!

Hm, maybe I will make the effort to bottle it then. If I've counted correctly, I think it had about 3 weeks in primary (rising from 66 to 73 degrees) then 6 weeks in the garage (varying from 32 to 55), still on the yeast cake. I guess it's ready to put in the bottle?

I can help you out with London - there's quite a lot so do you know roughly where you'll be staying?

Everyone is talking about bottling this beer - do you think that the priming and bottle conditioning process adds anything to the flavour profile? I brewed this a couple of months ago and it's sitting in a cool garage, I was going to keg it but do you think I'll be missing a trick by not bottling?

No don't move it before it finishes. I don't secondary, I primary for a week or two then stick the dry hops in the primary for a week or two in a bag (attached to a coat hanger to help wedge it in so it doesn't float!), works great.

Ha the ones I use definitely aren't! They tend to be something which liquidises at a much lower pressure than CO2 so they can be made in thin-walled aerosol cans rather than the heavy thick-walled cartridges you get for CO2. I can't remember the exact chemical but I certainly wouldn't want to...

You're only listening to the left channel, I did the same thing, the voiceover is in the right!

Argh I wish people wouldn't keep adding to this thread and teasing me with email alerts that there might be a tasting video! I used to have a sweet shop and last year I fermented these, I hope your experiment comes out better! http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/blackcurrant-millions-p-151323.html

What kind of tap do you have? Can you get away with something like this? http://www.swelluk.com/img/shop/original/hozelock-multi-tap-connector-2-2274.jpg

...though most people on here would argue that it's a pointless question - kegged after 3 days might taste marginally better than bottled after 3 days, but both will taste terrible compared to either after 3+ weeks

I'm sure carbonation level subtly effects drinkability, but that aside... Your bottle conditioned beers are undergoing another mini fermentation with the priming sugar, which partially resets the clock because you get another bunch of fermentation byproducts spat out after bottling. The yeast...

Quick question on this one - assuming you don't add bitterness with the finishing/dry hop additions, I calculate <100 IBUs from the bittering additions whether using 4 shots or 2 shots + 2oz Columbus. However, the recipe on your website claims 199IBUs. Am I missing something here? I can get...