What are you drinking tonight 2021?

[samale]

You’re still at “Dusty bin” when the rest of us have moved on to “Iron man”.

Speaking of super heroes

 

[Clint]

What a top hat...

 

[user 18729]

looks great, what yeast and hops?

Mosaic, Chinook, Citra & Cascade fermented with the Verdant yeast (London Ale III variant)

 

[samale]

Mosaic, Chinook, Citra & Cascade fermented with the Verdant yeast (London Ale III variant)

Must be a wee can knocking about with my name on it

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Must be a wee can knocking about with my name on it

You are such a beer tart!

 

[samale]

Mosaic, Chinook, Citra & Cascade fermented with the Verdant yeast (London Ale III variant)

Just incase you plan on reusing the yeast. The beer I sent you that tasted like a Belgian wheat beer was a 3rd pitch of verdant yeast. I seen someone else on the forum reporting similar results.

 

[samale]

You are such a beer tart!

I can't argue with that but it takes one to know one

 

[Drunkula]

Mild off the keg that I just overprimed the hell out of because I'm out of gas.

It's the one where I did post fermentation dilution. Well the first couple of pints (5, 6?) just five days after keg priming I tapped out into swingtops straight from the airing cupboard and put them in the freezer. It was fairly nice, a bit cloudy, let's call it 'underdeveloped' and I had a wonderful night, trumped so much I had to change the lightbulbs and luckly woke up during a nightmare about being trapped in a well, which lucky timing just about stopped me from crapping the bed. I was skittish for most of the next day.

Anyway, not to be deterred, it's a day later now and let's see how it's matured... me joko - it's 18 days and it's completely clear and it's really coming on. It's got a lot of maltyness, definitely enough body and there's enough flavour there from the vienna and darker crystal malts but ideally I'd like it more bitter, but I made a mild and that's what I got. Even post dilution it makes your teeth sticky - was 1.022 -> 1.016 but the priming sugar will have knocked that down a bit. I'd actually prefer it a bit dryer.

For a first post-dilution experiment I know it's a win. I've done post boil dilutions before when I was just doing 14 litre boils and got to 23 litres with a fairly decent efficiency. I suppose I could do a post boil and post dilution experiment but it would kinda feel contrived and I'd only want to do it if it would be an actual situation somebody had, which is unlikely.

 

[Mrhandsome]

Young’s Barely Wine

Is that a low alcohol wine?

 

[lupinehorror]

Is that a low alcohol wine?

mine is 10.5% so i guess so.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Is that a low alcohol wine?

Strong beer.

 

[obscure]

Is that a low alcohol wine?

in my case it’s a 8% beer, so in the lower end of the range. But to be clear Barley Wine is a strong English style beer, typically with a fairly high final gravity (Mine was 1.018) tend to have a rich flavour and if your into them can make really nice beers. A nice contrast to Double or Triple IPA’s and Imperial Stouts (which while both very nice seem to have become the dominant styles when it comes to stronger beers).

 

[user 18729]

Just incase you plan on reusing the yeast. The beer I sent you that tasted like a Belgian wheat beer was a 3rd pitch of verdant yeast. I seen someone else on the forum reporting similar results.

Wow that’s interesting! I wasn’t actually as I’ve got a couple more packs tucked away in the fridge. The yeast character in this one (first generation) is apricot and fruit, no harsh character that some people mention. I wonder why it changes with repitching... two strains perhaps?

 

[chrisb8]

Is that a low alcohol wine?

This was perhaps a little too subtle??

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

This was perhaps a little too subtle??

Needed at least a wink

 

[samale]

Wow that’s interesting! I wasn’t actually as I’ve got a couple more packs tucked away in the fridge. The yeast character in this one (first generation) is apricot and fruit, no harsh character that some people mention. I wonder why it changes with repitching... two strains perhaps?

My first pitch was pineapple and apricot. Very fruity

 

[user 18729]

My first pitch was pineapple and apricot. Very fruity

Thanks for the tip, I’ll avoid repitching this one then there must be a dominant strain in there that takes over after a few generations...

 

[user 18729]

Looks great hopsteep, only trouble is, it won't last very long

I know! I ‘sampled’ 3 or 4 last night, for quality control purposes of course

 

[obscure]

This was perhaps a little too subtle??

Perhaps but I have learnt to take all questions seriously just in case.

 

[Mrhandsome]

I feel like I've waited ages for midday to come. Let's GOOO!