At the moment I'm a bit behind the eight ball, as the stuff is getting drunk quicker than I can brew it.
You must have a fridge with 4 taps and a beer gut like me.
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At the moment I'm a bit behind the eight ball, as the stuff is getting drunk quicker than I can brew it.
Sick. The old dodgy yeast eh
I bet the memories came thrushing backMakes me reminisce my days in Mandurah.
I bet the memories came thrushing back
Yeah I'm just basing that on what some forums have said. I think it affects the amount of bitterness you get out of the hops if you have less malt in the boil - really not sure how - but apparently it prevents too much caramelising and therefore getting darker.While all that was going on I got started on that Euro Lager too. Thanks for the suggestion on reducing the DME in the boil SpaceClef. I didn't realise the boil caused the darker colour. Had wondered why my Lager Styles didn't have that straw colour about them. Learn something new everyday.
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Yeah I'm just basing that on what some forums have said. I think it affects the amount of bitterness you get out of the hops if you have less malt in the boil - really not sure how - but apparently it prevents too much caramelising and therefore getting darker.
See how you go, I haven't done a comparison
I don't even wanna ask man....Makes me reminisce my days in Mandurah.
Woah!Cooking any sugar gives you caramelising do more dry malt/time being cooked gives you a darker wort.
Look up decoction mash. It explains everything and how to create layers in a malt profile by boiling some or all of the mash.
The lupins from the hops which give you the bitterness are less soluble in a higher gravity wort. Less malt more bitterness from the same amount of hops in the same volume wort.
Hope that makes sense. I need a beer.
Woah!
Learnt two new things today. That makes heaps of sense. So if you wanna keep your hop bill down (and have a lighter looking beer) less malt in the boil.
Oila!
Damnit, just spent an hour looking up Brew In A Bag methods and cheap 50L stockpots and now i'm super excited to start all-grain brewin!
C02 leaks are such a pain in the arse. I had my keg system setup by my local HB supplier. Guy made it way more complicated than he needed to, with more connections etc, increasing risk of leaks. I'm sure I've got a small one in my system. I always turn off at the bottle, even though it is a massive pain in the arse.You should man. If you can find a local homebrew store who will mill your grain up then it saves investment of a mill.
I cleaned up my two empty kegs yesterday and purged them with co2 ready to rack beer into them then noticed my gas bottle was empty. Spewin! Just got back from a site visit so popped into my mates shop and swapped out bottles so I can tackle it tonight.
Hope I dont have a leak somewhere as that bottle seems to have gone fairly quick
C02 leaks are such a pain in the arse. I had my keg system setup by my local HB supplier. Guy made it way more complicated than he needed to, with more connections etc, increasing risk of leaks. I'm sure I've got a small one in my system. I always turn off at the bottle, even though it is a massive pain in the arse.
Was lucky enough that a mate I was helping setup a system for had a 10kg bottle which he couldn't get filled as it is one of those that have to go back to the provider. He bought a new one and gave it to me. My LHB guy took it out the back to 'have a look at it' and amazingly it had 'plenty' of gas in it.
So much easier to do carbing. Now my little 2.6kg sits in the kegetator and is for pouring only.
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Man, I have purposely stayed ignorant to all grain methods. I would get seriously hooked.Damnit, just spent an hour looking up Brew In A Bag methods and cheap 50L stockpots and now i'm super excited to start all-grain brewin!
Yep, my LHB guy when advising me at handover just said always turn off gas even in between pours, so it's become a bit of a habit now. Mine sits in the fridge, behind three kegs and all the lines, so getting to it can be a pain, but I figure I'd rather go through that find I've lost a bottle of gas overnight.10kg is boss! Im going to start turning my bottle off each night, or rather only turning on when using. My bottle sits in a holder on the back of the kegerator where I have no access to even adjust pressure so Ill have to move it beside the fridge I guess
Yep, my LHB guy when advising me at handover just said always turn off gas even in between pours, so it's become a bit of a habit now. Mine sits in the fridge, behind three kegs and all the lines, so getting to it can be a pain, but I figure I'd rather go through that find I've lost a bottle of gas overnight.
I'd love to be able to re-do my lines and connections but because I've built my bar around and above the kegetator making any changes means having to f*** around and disassemble everything.
The other alternative for you is to install a manifold suited to however many lines you need.
www.ebay.com.au/itm/291818357153
I'd love to have one of these set up. Much easier to isolate your kegs and lines and added bonus is you can run different carb pressures on your kegs with no risk of them losing pressure through equalising (if your system is set up like mine, where the three gas lines come back to one primary and back to the regulator). I just don't have the room inside the kegerator, which is where I'd have to install it.
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Ive got one. Has no check valves built in. Bought one just like that link on ebay and the check valves are rooted, I could blow air back thru it. Sent it back and yet to find a viable solution. I was going to go 4 tap manifold and convert one line to a bulkhead for force carbing but I dont do much of that anymore.
You cant regulate pressure through those manifolds though. Each line on the manifold would need to have its own regulator and gauge. Its either on or off, and if you half crack open a line the gas will eventually get through to the pressure set by the reg.
Problem with current setup is it equalizes pressure in the manifold and I lose aroma on my hoppy beers. It definitely needs addressing
Ah f*** it i didn't realise it didn't have a check Valve. They do seem a bit on the cheap side.
I thought the advantage of the manifold would be that you could carb a keg at whatever pressure and once on the manifold so long as you had it turned off, the keg pressure would remain. You'd just open the valve up to give the lines enough pouring pressure and then shut it off. Or am I missing something?
Under my setup now, I've even got to the point of unhooking the gas lines off the keg. I just found I had the same issue with losing hop aroma and depending on how full other kegs were it could screw around with the pour as well.
I've only ever forced carbed my kegs. I'm still finding it a bit hit and miss after a two years. Have seen a few people talk about just hooking it up to gas at serving pressure and leaving it for 3 or 4 days to carbonate. Will have to look into that a bit more I think.
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