Anna's Brewdays

[MashBag]

Be VF careful with the drill. Feel you way. Bradawl is a brilliant idea. Look hard. There are always pipes in the wall for the condenser (different to the bit on the back)

A nasty hissing sound made me say some very rude words and kick a bucket across the yard

 

[DocAnna]

Back to the balloons….

I have been swapping over the Dubbel from temperature control to warm the lager up for a a diacetyl rest then cold crash. The 80 litre fermenters deform a wee bit in lifting so I wanted to fit one of my CO2 ballon reservoirs to prevent sucking in of air during movement and cooling. Problem is they don’t fit the super large airlocks on the fermenters. So it was a hunt around the brewery for something that fitted…. Behold the next generation of CO2. Balloon tech for filling from a CO2 line and fitted to a large airlock .

Quite chuffed

 

[Clint]

I work with a few balloons.

 

[Buffers brewery]

Good fix doc. Now do it properly and have a standardized connection system for all your balloons and all your fermenters etc. You know it makes sense and you have soooo much time to spare.

 

[DocAnna]

Testing and sampling the beers before cold crashing.

Dubbel Knot Too : Fits to style for a Dubbel other than a bit more bitterness but it's that initial bitterness that usually clears once the beer has cleared, nice but not the caramel creamy scruminess I was hoping for. Lets see how it conditions. There's hints of layers here and eek it's strong not by taste but by how I feel after trying a small glass (7.5% based on current readings)
Core F3 : Oh this is yum for a lager, I do like this new yeast. Citrus lemon with a bit of yeasty complexity there. If that stays after it clears I'll be very happy indeed

 

[dad_of_jon]

Worry ye not, it will become more complex. I have a Belgian golden strong ale ready for bottling abv 8.14%+ (est), partly inspired by :

1. Your Dubbel knot - to do a Belgian beer and
2. As a protest against duvel for lowering the abv of their standard beer in the UK. Leffe blonde from 6.6% to 6% apart from in JDW, Delerium tremens to 7.4% from 8.5% Kasteel rouge from 8% to 7% etc.... still Cherry Choffe is still 8% and St Bernadus abt 12 is still 10% so not all is lost.

 

[Twostage]

Belgian golden strong ale

That sounds nice. Without googling or looking up the style I can imagine a slightly dark, lightly hopped, strong lager with a hint of sweetness aftertaste.

 

[RoomWithABrew]

That sounds nice. Without googling or looking up the style I can imagine a slightly dark, lightly hopped, strong lager with a hint of sweetness aftertaste.

Should be very very pale, minimal hop, most taste from yeast and highly carbonated. Pretty dry.

 

[DocAnna]

More cleaning this evening and using caustic which gives me the heebie jeebies but it gets the job done. Things still not properly clean since the roofing disaster a year ago. I’ve cleaned everything at least twice but it still doesn’t seem right. I get quite upset about it if I think about it too long. Caustic is a way of being definitive about it in that ‘all bugs must die’ caring doctor way.

Time for the big pump too as I’m not disturbing the lager that been patiently at -2 or thereabouts for about 3 weeks.

 

[Clint]

Hmmm...cleaning! I'm an expert...but mainly in work as the regime we put the machines through before production (making wound dressings) is pretty brutal! We use solvents,a couple being MEK,methylethylkeytone,and DMF,dimethylformamide. The latter is particularly effective but quite dangerous as its a kill everything sort of product.
But then everyone knows the only way to be sure is to nuke them from orbit.