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Your mineral levels will be within a working range wherever they are in those measurements and unless you get a more accurate estimate I wouldn't see much point adjusting with salts as its a bit of a shot in the dark! Alkalinity however will have an impact especially for a pale ale so worth...

I go for the side of FV with foam over the top, the fermentation generates its own heat so ambient air temp does not always correlate with wort temp. This way is more likely to maintain stable fermenting temp which is key for good yeast performance

Are you sure it's only been 4 days?!

Hopefully time is a great healer and all that!

That looks and sounds very nice indeed :smile:

Yes please

Looks a solid technique to me :lol:

Now that you mention it that does sound a bit weird! :lol: I must admit I am not sure if I like the flavour from the cardinal either at the moment, I am also hoping it will mellow a bit. I didn't use a huge amount of it but perhaps it is one that needs to be used sparingly or balanced against...

Agree with Clibit this is a good intermediate step and one I have used myself before moving to AG, I have used basic pale ale and pilsner kits with steeping grains/partial mashes to create APAs, IPAs, Wheat beer, Raspberry Beer and a German Dunkel. The beer was great and a marked improvement on...

Nice, did you get any strawberry aroma/taste I have a cardinal pale with a bit of wolf in it and the strawberry was very prominent to my taste buds

Serious BBQ cravings are kicking in now and tragically I only have a banana and some soup for lunch :doh:

Interesting discussion, I don't have enough experience to take a view really but a couple of beers I did recently with my slovenian hops only had bittering and post boil additions and my initial tastings (not conditioned yet) suggest that there is maybe not the depth of hop flavour that you...

mmmmmm pork shoulder........

Yep time left, good choice it came out great for me. It's hoppier than the real thing but did taste very similar. The yeast is quite important for getting an authentic Adnams flavour but if you are happy with a nice citrusy APA style beer it will still be good using a standard yeast like Gervin...

Agree nice idea but when I tried a bottle it was 1 sip and then down the sink, possibly the worst bottled beer I have ever tasted

Interesting hop combo there Clibit, look forward to hearing how it comes out.

The west yorks did take quite a while to ferment out (10 days ish) despite it being very active, I guess this is probably also due to much of the yeast being suspended in the krausen? Perhaps with yeasts that do this highly floaty/floccy thing it might be a benefit to over pitch slightly to...

I agree with MyQul when it comes to swirling, I currently have some West Yorkshire on the go in a TT style beer and it did help to get it to drop out. I think that the SN yeast did perform in a very similar way to what I have observed so far with this stuff, although I didn't actually get to see...

Enjoy! :thumb:

Definitely worth purchasing in my opinion especially as it is a one off payment. A few minor things that could be improved but on the whole it works very well and is well supported