Anyone getting one last brew in before the end of the year?

pilgrimhudd · Dec 30, 2020

Might do GH's old ale if I can. Or if I can get away from the family for a few hours GH's Honey Ale but I want to give that some attention.

An Ankoù · Dec 30, 2020

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I really fancy a mild but I always have this crazy niggle and think "I'm putting in the same effort as a real beer here." So I might make a stronger version, account for bitterness then water it down to 30 litres. Sort of like the macros do with their pish. I'd never thought about doing it until just now.
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That's what I do. Brew 12 litres on the cooker and water it down to 20 litres. Mild's a stranlack ge beast: it's the only beer where (on two occasions) I've taken perfectly good ingredients and managed to brew every last vestige of flavour out of them. I once bought a couple of bottle of bottles of Thwaites Nutty Black and, try as I might, I couldn't taste a thing. Having said that, Elgoods Black Dog is amazing.

Plotmaster · Dec 30, 2020

I did a big chocolate Porter yesterday and have just finished a pina colada neipa

Oneflewover · Dec 30, 2020

Oneflewover said:
Just about to start the boil for a dopplebock.....had a few mishaps so far, not least that my mill jammed up as I was crushing the grain

Well that went from bad to worse. Tripped the consumer unit (fortunately near end of boil) and couldn't get it to stay on initially so decided to curtail boil. Pump blocked so couldn't transfer to FV. Then realised that pump issue was down to bazooka filter coming adrift (it was on its last legs). Couldn't get anything to come out of boiler tap so resorted to picking up boiler and pouring wort into FV through a sieve. However was using the fermentasaurus and struggled to pour neatly through the opening. Wort all over outside of fermenter and kitchen floor. Ended up with 18l of 1.060 wort in the FV, hopefully some good will come of it. Not had a brewday as disastrous as that before. Fitting final brew of 2020 perhaps

foxbat · Dec 30, 2020

Oneflewover said:
Tripped the consumer unit

This part is worrying. Do you know why it happened?

Oneflewover · Dec 30, 2020

foxbat said:
This part is worrying. Do you know why it happened?

I suspect build up of steam resulting in an insulation issue tripping the RCD

Frog 1 · Dec 31, 2020

Well I wanted to brew today but still waiting for my shiny new Fermzilla fermenter coming from Ireland (DPD tracking seems to be stuck so not sure if it's getting here on time, so much for next day delivery, on day 3 now), going to brew a NEIPA and want to use the new toy to keep oxygen minimised. I did do a smooth bitter for my dad for Christmas, pumped it full of nitrogen beer gas but that failed miserably, had some minor fizz but no creamy head, was quite bemused and the beer wasn't that good anyway so tipped it. My attempt at nitro stout worked perfectly, so not sure what I did wrong with the bitter.