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Evening all. Just started the last couple of gallons of the Tribute clone I brewed at the end of July. Cleared nicely now and is a very enjoyable beer. I have another barrel of it conditioning in the shed. Should be just right for Christmas.

What’s the plan? I recall you used to give your king kegs a blast of CO2 after transfer. Do you still do that? Do you let air into the barrel as you pour and lose any pressure you had after carbonation?

First beer out of my new (complicated) fermenter. Cascade pale ale at a pleasant snooze inducing 5% ABV.

So I asked Lallemand about pitching their Verdant IPA yeast into wort at 14C. This is the response.... Might have been OK :confused.:

Just used this…. https://www.omnicalculator.com/chemistry/boiling-point-altitude to check boiling point at 270m and normal pressure, 99C All my digital thermometers give different readings, consistently. I suggest boiling some water in a saucepan to check the boiling point reading.

The storage instructions indicate keeping the packet of yeast at 4C or below… Lallemand recommends dry pitching their yeast I wouldn’t have been concerned pitching a lager yeast into wort at 14C or lower, I was pitching an ale yeast with an operating range of 18C-25C so was not sure what might...

Transferred the Tribute clone to the fermenter last week so decided to put the "new" fermenter to the test and brew a NEIPA and check out the dry hopper in the lid. Started with a beta-glucan rest, 45C for 30 minutes. I always do this now when brewing NEIPA as I've suffered stuck or clogged mash...

That sounds like a really good solution. Ta athumb..

Sadly, my boiler won’t fit in my brew fridge. Too tall.

The brew I’ve just done is a NEIPA and destined to have a shedload of hops added so the last thing I wanted was a complication with the yeast asad.. I’ll be brewing a simpler pale ale next, when it might be colder, so I might just try and pitch into cold wort to see what happens ashock1. I’ll...

Thanks peeps for your feedback. The wort temperature this morning when I syphoned was 14.6C. I was in two minds and decided to warm it up a bit before pitching. My yeast is probably a bit above fridge temperature (4C) when I normally pitch into wort at about 23C so the larger bulk of warm wort...

Earlier this year I changed my brewing process and now leave the partially cooled (sub 50C) wort in my garage overnight to finish cooling but also to let it settle out before syphoning off. Now the overnight outside temperature is dropping, by the following morning the wort temperature is well...

I was trying to make it less complicated.

If you're happy with the calibration of the hydrometer ( 1.000 @ 20C with pure water) I'd be tempted to start changing things. If you are comfortable sitting in your living room or bedroom, get rid of the heater, pitch a sachet of yeast, wrap it up in the blanket in your living room or bedroom...

Just checked and they were doing it back in 2019. I did my build in 2022....but I wasn't aware of what "they" were doing :coat:

They nicked my idea! 😂

Ta! 👍🏻

Ta! 👍🏻

Snap!

@Shaun-p how are you measuring the beer gravity, hydrometer or refractometer?