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I liked my peaty version of McEwans Champion. It was a 20L batch and I used 32g of SImpsons Peated Malt from Brewmaster. I've add a little of it into a couple of other beers too (maybe 25g in 26L batches).

Glad Pub is back in production as I just dumped my yeast slurry and kegged and primed (1g/L) 31L yesterday. I added some isinglass as I forgot the Irish Moss. I usually give it 10 days conditioning @ 17C then 5 days at serving temp (10C). It will be replacing a Adnams Ghost Ship clone on my...

Jus finished 16 gallons of beer to get through before I brew again... I guess I'll be saying goodbye to A09 until Imperial gets on top of their issues! In good news, the 4mo yeast did get the job done (says 80% attenuation - prolly 75%) It might be fun to experiment with drying this slurry...

Sorry - this was referring to the laymans "wash" mentioned in various yeast-makers and homebrew guides/videos. i.e. repeatedly add water, agitate, refrigerate ,and decant off the cream.

Well, I missed my very narrow window for top crop it seems as the krausen disappeared during today (open ferment for first bit) and it's down to 1.011 in just 30hrs. Will see if it gets to the calculated FG of 1.006 but seems close to flat - maybe a couple more points over the next week. The...

I've got this half-way fermented right now. I struggled to find a place to get A09 and my LHBS all said it will be not be available for a while. It got me thinking about top-cropping some. Never tried to harvest yeast before and I just finished a brown ale last week so doubt I'll brew for...

I always do a full (7-10 days) primary fermentation closed but have heard some people leave it open for the first three days then close it. I guess since this brewery is bottling early in order to finish fermentation in secondary no priming is needed. For me to try this I'd really have to be...

I love that video! The thing most interesting is not sanitizing things like spoons, samplers, and doing an FV top up with straight tap water (not boiled). I brewed a brown ale last week and my FV was very full (30L wort in 30L bucket) and had a mix of Voss and US-05 (an experiment). I had to...

I wonder if Anchor Brewery is going to sell off their open fermentor tanks?

I brew British cask ales and don't force carbonate. I cask [keg] condition it at 17C (62F) for about 5 days before chilling. I'm only shooting for 1.1 to 1.2 parts and add only 1g per liter. A 5L mini keg gets 5g.

Is the recipe presented on the first page of this thread still correct? Asking as I see there's lots of discussion and mention of not being able to edit it anymore. My LBS has A09 last I checked. First Gold - not so easy to get here. I have a Dark Mild and Ghost Ship [citrus pale] clone on the...

I used to shy away from any poorly attenuating yeast but now am on a bit of drive to brew more session-like English ales and have a dark mild finishing now. I used WLP 002 for the first time and it looks like it's slowly creeping up to 69% or so to give me a 3.3% ABV. My go-to's are S-04, 1469...

I went back and forth on a larger fermenter but in the end I just got a second 7.9gal plastic bucket for my mostly British ales. If I have a big batch I do it in two buckets - each of which I can lift and place inside my $60 used chest freezer for temp control. I have a spigot on them and cask...

I acquired two hi-gene 1/4pt without jackets so I built an insulated box and a small 50mm fan pushes cold air into the box and it returns to my keezer. Mind you - my keezer is only at 50F/10C as it is all cask conditioned real ale.

Same here (SF Bay Area). Luckily just casked three ales for xmas so enough to hunker down for a bit (David Heaths ESB, Fullers London Porter, and TT Landlord). Although, I can move my Anvil in the garage and leave a side door open and run a box fan pushing the steam out of the open door. Re...

I did actually cancel my pre-order. I like my Anvil 10.5 and my "issue" with big grain bills not so huge since I stick to English style beers. My desire for larger batches (to get some beer for whiskey) is valid but I can just do another batch. I mean I only fire the thing up once or twice a...

I'm actually considering canceling my pre-order at MB. It is obviously NOT too late :D Thinking about sticking with my Anvil 10.5 - at least for the meantime. See how the gen4 goes in the general populous for a bit.

I emailed them but have not heard back. On the FB group there was talk of these pre-orders getting lost.

Seems like they could release the firmware update to allow for BTLE temperature sensors much easier than manufacturing and distributing new false bottoms. Talking of half batches, one of my reasons to go up to the 65L (from Anvil 10.5gal) is so I can do a little more than 23L batches much...