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Cleaning bottles

September 10, 2020 stephen gale 1 Comment

I like using traditional glass bottles to condition my beer. Particularly, clear ones. I like that you can always see…

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Posted in: Cleaning Filed under: bottle cleaning, bottle conditioning

Deep cleaning my Grainfather kit

September 7, 2020 stephen gale

After about 20 brews in my Grainfather G30, I noticed quite a bit of brown staining in the bottom of…

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Posted in: Cleaning Filed under: Cleaning, G30, Grainfather, sodium percarbonate

Clearing So-La

September 6, 2020 stephen gale

I use bottle conditioning with the majority of my beer. I do have some Corny kegs, but it is early…

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Posted in: Fermentation, Ingredients, Yeast Filed under: bottle conditioning

Hops by the kilo

September 5, 2020 stephen gale 1 Comment

One of the things that I have found is that I have had to use different suppliers for the various…

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Posted in: Hops, Ingredients, Suppliers Filed under: hops, uk suppliers

Clearing Verdant IPA

September 4, 2020 stephen gale 1 Comment

Normally, after 48 hours after bottling, most of my beers have 80-90% cleared. This isn’t the case with this Verdant…

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Posted in: Fermentation, Yeast Filed under: bottle conditioning, Verdant Yeast

Verdant Blonde IPA

September 2, 2020 stephen gale 2 Comments

I have seen a lot of press recently about Verdant IPA Yeast from Lallemand, so I thought I would give…

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Posted in: Fermentation, Yeast Filed under: beer fermentation, Verdant Yeast

Avoiding contamination

August 25, 2020 stephen gale

I recently encountered by first contaminated brew. It looks like it was some sort of wild yeast contamination. I am…

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Posted in: Contamination, Fermentation, Yeast Filed under: avoiding contaminsation, sanitising

Record keeping

August 24, 2020 stephen gale

If you want to improve your brewing, and you want to be able to brew consistently, you have to keep…

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Posted in: Fermentation, Gravity Readings, Record Keeping Filed under: record keeping

Reducing sediment

August 16, 2020 stephen gale 1 Comment

One of the things that has bugged me has been the amount of sediment in my bottle conditioned beer. It…

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Posted in: Fermentation, Yeast Filed under: chiller, cold crash, sediment

Contaminated fermentation

August 14, 2020 stephen gale

Well, after nearly 50 brews, this is the first time that I have encountered a contamination in the brewing process.…

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Posted in: Contamination, Fermentation, Gravity Readings Filed under: beer fermentation

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