What are you drinking tonight 2021?

[Rodcx500z]

McEwen's Champion while watching Firefox. Photo doesn't make it look very appealing, bit it is!

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If you don't mind me asking what make is the guitar on the chair

 

[Griff097]

First pint of Hokum Stomp, got to say I am impressed.

That keg didn't last long

I need to get brewing

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

I’ve deliberately not put my bitter on tap as yet.

Wha....??

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

It’s our Friday today as the hubby has a four day weekend coming up - so I’ve broken out the rhubarb stuff ha ha! My Christmas wine needs to hurry up and be ready, I’m sick of this stuff!

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Great news Lisa - you guys have a fantastic w/e :-)

 

[Griff097]

Been too busy with work stuff and need to get some brews on but having a go at this Guinness clone recipe I found somewhere, which is nothing like it except black, I think there is too much chocolate malt which tastes almost burnt, have to do for tonight though.

I think I may put the porter that finished sweet on the next tap and pour half of each and see how that goes, shame to waste it

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Wha....??

I’m trying to encourage myself to finish some of the others, I need four kegs for the beers currently fermenting.
#FirstWorldProblems

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Great news Lisa - you guys have a fantastic w/e :-)

Same to you mate.

 

[Rodcx500z]

Well today has properly put me in the mood for a few glasses I did a brew different to what I normally do and I have a new toy, a ninja maxi air fryer to play with, happy new Friday good people

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

So hoping some of you more experienced guys can help with this. This was brewed on the 14th August. It’s Jim’s brew. He called it the low carb experiment. It was just pale ale and crystal malt, with belle saison yeast.

Although it’s yummy, it was bottled, and as soon as you open it, the damn thing explodes and you’re lucky if you get half a bottle of good stuff without getting the icky yeast at the bottom. Has this happened to anyone else?

Edit - it's not cascade - just an old bottle!

 

[Rodcx500z]

Yes Lisa it used to happen to me hence the reason i went over to kegs but, i think i was over priming, i like those worktops

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Thanks Rod - down to the people we bought the house from lol

Thanks for the heads up too - was it the yeast do you think or maybe hop creep? Over-priming we've ruled out unless it hadn't finished fermenting.

 

[dave_77]

I hope your WC IPA doesn't taste like pi$$.

Thought you were a grumpy man city fan for a minute....but WC I take it

It wasn't the west coast IPA I was hoping for but it's ok

 

[dave_77]

Now this is what I was aiming for in my West Coast IPA...I would like a keg of this.
Bitter, pine ,citrus

 

[Rodcx500z]

This a good brew while I watch some Americans sail across the Indian Ocean from Australia in a privlige 585 catamaran

 

[Rodcx500z]

Thanks Rod - down to the people we bought the house from lol

Thanks for the heads up too - was it the yeast do you think or maybe hop creep? Over-priming we've ruled out unless it hadn't finished fermenting.

To be honest Lisa i don't know maybe a combination of all but since i bought the kegs everything is better

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

@LisaMC I think it will help if you can REALLY chill it down as much as you possibly can before opening; also maybe if you can just tickle the cap open so you just get the merest hiss and then leave it?

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

To be honest Lisa i don't know maybe a combination of all but since i bought the kegs everything is better

it’d be better for him if I stopped hogging the kegs lol. He has a verdant ipa at the moment in the fermentation fridge so hoping for the best.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

@LisaMC I think it will help if you can REALLY chill it down as much as you possibly can before opening; also maybe if you can just tickle the cap open so you just get the merest hiss and then leave it?

the one I opened today has been chilled for a full week and still the same story. It’s hopeless lol. We have tried opening and leaving but we’d be here all week honestly and it’d be warm by the time it was pourable.

 

[moto748]

@LisaMC or do what I often do, and pour into a large (2 litre) measuring jug. You get a jug three-quarters full of foam? So what. Simply wait five minutes, it will all calm down, and you will be able to pour into a glass comfortably.

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

the one I opened today has been chilled for a full week and still the same story. It’s hopeless lol. We have tried opening and leaving but we’d be here all week honestly and it’d be warm by the time it was pourable.

I mean really cold - like in the freezer until it’s (almost!) frozen
Has it got much headspace in the bottles?
When I say ‘tickle the cap open’ I mean just lift a tiny bit of the cap (e.g. with a pair of long nosed pliers) so there’s a tiny path for the gas to hiss out slowly without removing the whole cap