SIBA 2017
Thursday Exhibition Hall.
LALLEMAND; Had a great talk with to Marie Coppet from Lallemand. (The company will be re-branding soon inc Danstar and ab Vickers) I use BRY 97 (West Coast Yeast) and was re-hydrating as per John Palmer. But it seems I have been doing some things wrong,,,
Firstly, check use by. fresher is best! But, yes, definitely re-hydrate with cooled boiled water, adding dried yeast at 30-35*C (way above the 20-23*C I was aiming for) Do not shake!!! but let the yeast dissolve then gently swirl. Pitch within 30 mins or the yeast will be dying. (sometimes I do two brews and was leaving it 2-3 hrs,,,Ooops) Yeast can stand up to 10*C thermal shock, so no need to be too exact on pitch/wort temperatures. Just get it in fast! And aerate once below 27*C (John Palmer) Keep dried yeast cool or in freezer use ASAP. 11G is fine for 23L, but aim for .5-1g yeast / litre wort. However I find 6g / 23L stops the excess Krausen and blocked bubblers,, The chemical makeup of yor brewing liquor will affect this.
Marie is happy to answer brewer queries;
[email protected] Great info and a nice tea mug for my other brews ââ¬â Thank you.
CHARLES FAREM; Hop talk, a lot way above my head but the bottom line is the volume and diversity of hops is increasing. No big problems and the future looks good. However a cautionary warning is that China has a growing demand for hops. Plenty new varieties on offer; Jester looks interesting AA 7-9% Coh 23-28, ; Grapefruit, Lychees, Blackcurrant American hop UK challenger (?) Also some blends like Mozaic. Check out their web
www.wellhopped.com thanks for another nice tea mug!!
Lots of plastic/HDPE kegs such as the Eco keg system which seem to be single use for breweries. Just wondered where they end up? Might be a source of cheap secondary/storage options for home brewers that like a re-use option.
Loads of lovely growlers for party dispensing. I particularly liked the re-usable one from Arlington
www.beercarriers.co.uk. They are happy to supply groups for splitting up as they supply in 180 piece boxes (@ ã0.90 per unit!) and a neat minikeg option with integrated CO2 cylinder from Erben. The company have a sister retail outlet for smaller orders (around 6 pieces)
I was interested in simple Bio testing systems. Looking for coliform presence and assessing sensitisation effectiveness after CIP. Found lots of posh ATP bio-luminescence second generation kits. But still too expensive for us at the moment.
Neat one off test kit from Industrial test systems www. sensafe.com. I have a free sample kit to try!!! The test kit for water quality from ITS looked brilliant, but just a bit expensive for us in our first year. I will report back on effectiveness of the one off sample kit as I will be getting Brewlab or Sheffield Hallam (Dr Jamie Young) to do some routine testing by post as a backup.
Most importantly the beer hall had over 200 beers to sample. I tried my best and failed to taste even half of them even in 1/3pt posh sampling glasses. Phew,,,,,
