It's Kegging Time 2023

[Pale Man]

14 minutes ago, Pale Man said:

Ive got my dibs on the next All In IPA Hoppy orders in. Its the quick or the dead around here 

Youll have to ask him nicely to order two @Classic Brewing Co

[Shamus O'Sean]

23 hours ago, Uhtred Of Beddanburg said:

@Shamus O'Sean I never get into % of attenuation with brewing but glad only kegging then I assume? Nothing worse that doing a bottle with an out of normal brew.

Yes, I put all of this brew into 1 and 1/2 kegs.  FG was 1.017, so not too bad.  But most lager yeasts I have used finish under 1.010.  If it was to kick off again in bottles, it might get messy

[Shamus O'Sean]

23 hours ago, Back Brewing said:

How do you work the % out?

I am pretty sure it is 

(OG-FG)/(OG-1)

[Shamus O'Sean]

10 hours ago, Pale Man said:

Bet it drinks nice anyway fella.

Time will tell.  The SG sample tasted nice.  It had a notable sweetness.  But that could have been the higher FG.

[Back Brewing]

Then x 100

[Shamus O'Sean]

21 minutes ago, Back Brewing said:

Then x 100

Yep.  Forgot that bit.

[Classic Brewing Co]

Kegging day for the Real Ale, it went smoothly, 19l in the keg fridge & bottled 8 x 500ml bottles which equals 23l.

I even detailed the brewing fridge; I think I have earnt a beer.

Cheers 

 

[Pale Man]

Just another kegging pic. FWK All In Brewing Bearded Dragon Pale Ale. I dry hopped with 25 grams of Cashmere and 25 grams of Eukonot.

@jennyss the real Blue Dog decided to photo bomb this time.

 

[Classic Brewing Co]

55 minutes ago, Pale Man said:

Just another kegging pic. FWK All In Brewing Bearded Dragon Pale Ale. I dry hopped with 25 grams of Cashmere and 25 grams of Eukonot.

@jennyss the real Blue Dog decided to photo bomb this time.

 

Sounds like a great brew @Pale Man I am going to get a few more of those, but I still have grain to use up as well. 

[Pale Man]

5 minutes ago, Classic Brewing Co said:

Sounds like a great brew @Pale Man I am going to get a few more of those, but I still have grain to use up as well. 

All Grain next for me ol chop too.

[Uhtred Of Beddanburg]

@Pale Man I have the same FWK on at the moment it is on day 4 with Verdant IPA Yeast. I added an extra 20 grams Citra and 40 grams Cascade in a hop tea on the day I started it.

Great value for money, I'm only paying $45 each when using cash.

[Brauhaus Fritz]

On 8/20/2023 at 2:13 PM, Classic Brewing Co said:

Kegging day for the Real Ale, it went smoothly, 19l in the keg fridge & bottled 8 x 500ml bottles which equals 23l.

I even detailed the brewing fridge; I think I have earnt a beer.

Cheers 

 

Looking good Phil. I have got a can of Real Ale to try out, and BE2. Any suggestion what else to add? Cheers and Prost

[Classic Brewing Co]

2 hours ago, Brauhaus Fritz said:

Looking good Phil. I have got a can of Real Ale to try out, and BE2. Any suggestion what else to add? Cheers and Prost

My recipe was as follows.

The hops were 50gm of POR added 4 days before kegging, tied up in a muslin bag. I would have preferred Citra but out of stock ATM.

I have a few mates that are Mega Swillers, they seem to favour Pub beer over my hoppy Ales/IPA/XPA types, so I usually try & keep a keg full of standard pub type stuff like Real Ale, Draught etc. I am not saying these are ordinary, they are great, but I still can't help myself with additions. They still agree it is better than some pub beer.

 

[Shamus O'Sean]

Kegged my Czech Budvar Lager a few days ago.

This is the 5th generation using the White Labs WLP802 Czech Budejovice Lager yeast.  It has progressively attenuated less and less.  I'll only use it once more, me thinks.  This brew ended up 4.1% ABV.  It will be nice.

[Uhtred Of Beddanburg]

@Shamus O'Sean I have had the same thing re using yeast. The FG  gets lower and lower yet the beer is fine.

[Shamus O'Sean]

28 minutes ago, Uhtred Of Beddanburg said:

@Shamus O'Sean I have had the same thing re using yeast. The FG  gets lower and lower yet the beer is fine.

At some point the beer will not be fine.  So far though, it is great.

[Back Brewing]

On 8/12/2023 at 8:00 AM, Kegory said:

I'll give this a shot. I'm sure somebody/everybody will correct me if I'm wrong.

Original Gravity minus gravity points of non-fermentables multiplied by 100/Final Gravity minus gravity points of non-fermentables.

Found a quick simple formula OG- SG/OG×100

So example 40-12=28/40=0.7x100=70%

[Shamus O'Sean]

8 hours ago, Back Brewing said:

Found a quick simple formula OG- SG/OG×100

So example 40-12=28/40=0.7x100=70%

Yeah/Nah

The Coopers formula is reasonable: (OG – FG) / 7.46  But you have to make the SG whole numbers.  So for OG 1040 and FG 1012

(1040-1012)/7.46 = 3.75%

This is in the fermenter.  If you prime with sugar or carb drops in bottles it will be 0.3 - 0.5% higher. 

[Back Brewing]

58 minutes ago, Shamus O'Sean said:

Yeah/Nah

The Coopers formula is reasonable: (OG – FG) / 7.46  But you have to make the SG whole numbers.  So for OG 1040 and FG 1012

(1040-1012)/7.46 = 3.75%

This is in the fermenter.  If you prime with sugar or carb drops in bottles it will be 0.3 - 0.5% higher. 

Sorry mate My formula was for attenuation 

[Otto Von Blotto]

Kegged my pale ale this morning before heading off to golf. It's on high pressure until tomorrow morning so I can sample it tomorrow after golf, but after that I'll try to leave it alone until the red ale is ready

Gotta work out when I'm doing the next two brew days too. At this point I'm looking at the weekends either side of grand final week. 

[Shamus O'Sean]

Kegged my Aussie Rice Lager tonight.

Calling it Aussie because I used Pride of Ringwood (and Magnum) in the boil.

Lots of trub in this one, about 5 litres worth.  I must have transferred a heap of rice powder across to the fermenter.

I harvested the top 2 litres of the trub and will use 1 litre in a Munich Dunkel next week.

Much better attenuation in this one compared to the first brew done with this yeast.  82% this time, compared to 65% in the Rattenhund Pilsner clone.

Filled the corny, plus a 4 litre mini-keg, that I put 12 carb drops in to naturally carbonate.  Also got 6 x Grolsch bottles filled.

[Back Brewing]

23 minutes ago, Shamus O'Sean said:

Kegged my Aussie Rice Lager tonight.

Calling it Aussie because I used Pride of Ringwood (and Magnum) in the boil.

Lots of trub in this one, about 5 litres worth.  I must have transferred a heap of rice powder across to the fermenter.

I harvested the top 2 litres of the trub and will use 1 litre in a Munich Dunkel next week.

Much better attenuation in this one compared to the first brew done with this yeast.  82% this time, compared to 65% in the Rattenhund Pilsner clone.

Filled the corny, plus a 4 litre mini-keg, that I put 12 carb drops in to naturally carbonate.  Also got 6 x Grolsch bottles filled.

Mate that is a lot of trub

[Shamus O'Sean]

Keg beer line cleaning

Last night I finished off 2 kegs.  Time to clean the beer lines.  I usually do it manually.  However, inspired by something I think @ozdevil posted a while ago, I decided to slightly modify my Kegland Bucket Blaster to pump cleaning liquid (6 litres of hot water with 2 teaspoons of pure sodium percarbonate), through the beer lines for cleaning.  Basically, into the outlet of tap 4, through beer line 4 to the beer disconnect and using a beer to beer jumper, then into the beer disconnect of tap 1, through the line to the outlet of tap 1 and back to the bucket blaster via a tube from tap 1.

Ran cleaner through for 30 minutes, then hot water for 10 minutes.  Then pushed santiser through.  Just a bit more simple than my usual process.

[ozdevil]

7 hours ago, Shamus O'Sean said:

Keg beer line cleaning

Last night I finished off 2 kegs.  Time to clean the beer lines.  I usually do it manually.  However, inspired by something I think @ozdevil posted a while ago, I decided to slightly modify my Kegland Bucket Blaster to pump cleaning liquid (6 litres of hot water with 2 teaspoons of pure sodium percarbonate), through the beer lines for cleaning.  Basically, into the outlet of tap 4, through beer line 4 to the beer disconnect and using a beer to beer jumper, then into the beer disconnect of tap 1, through the line to the outlet of tap 1 and back to the bucket blaster via a tube from tap 1.

Ran cleaner through for 30 minutes, then hot water for 10 minutes.  Then pushed santiser through.  Just a bit more simple than my usual process.

yes i did post something like that up   , it makes cleaning beer lines alot easier  then doing them individually

 

[Shamus O'Sean]

4 hours ago, ozdevil said:

yes i did post something like that up   , it makes cleaning beer lines alot easier  then doing them individually

 

Yes.  It was so easy, there is no reason why I shouldn't clean all the lines at once (other than getting a few more connectors)