Busy busy Molery

[Wez]

Definately going to try roasting them with Orange, usually just use Honey, cheers Aleman :thumb:

 

[Moley]

nice looking brew moley, have you ever tried parsnip stout? i made a 1 gallon batch a good few months ago based on on the recipe in CJJ Berrys home brewed beers and stouts

Ok, no I haven't, and I don't think I've ever seen or heard of that book.

Sod you, that's more homework I've got to do! :cry:













I hope you realise that was meant tongue-in-cheek :

 

[Moley]

Update on these, as someone on the other forum asked me for a recipe and I gave a link back to here.

Parsnip has finished at 0.992 and I have just racked, added campdens, de-gassed, added sorbate and finings. After racking I had 4.5 gallons, didn't feel inclined to top up with water so found a half gallon bottle.

I never got around to adding the extra gallon of water to the Fruity Pink Wurzel but at 5 gallons that would give a calculated OG of 1.110, which is probably a bit too high for a Wurzel. SG is now 1.010 so I've added 4.5L of mineral water (freeing up a PET), bringing the calculated OG down to 1.090, and it's back in its warm corner for another couple of weeks.

The Wherry was bottled at 1.014 on 17th Jan and has now carbonated and cleared nicely. The majority has been put away for another month or so but initial tests have been promising.

Racking the parsnip leaves me with the obscenity of an empty fermenter, so I will endeavour to rectify that before the day is out.

 

[evanvine]

Parsnip has finished at 0.992 and I have just racked, added campdens, de-gassed, added sorbate and finings.

Why does "de-gassing" need to be done Moley?
I've read a lot of references to it, but not yet twigged why it's nescessary!

Edit
Forget the damn fool question, gas stops syphons!

 

[Roost]

Hi
I have tried the parsnip stout recipe a couple of times and it is great. If you want to try the recipe you can find it here http://roosthousingcoop.wordpress.com/p ... pes/beers/ .
Let us know how it goes.

Fiona

 

[SamWise72]

I picked up that precise CJJ Berry book from a book swap at our local organic hippy cafe. Hadn't noticed the parsnip stout, but I reckon I'll try a gallon when I do. Lord knows parsnips aren't for eating, so they might as well be SOME use!