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Ready by Xmas?

  • 27-11-2013 1:19pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,
    Due to life's little pressures I haven't made anything in a while and I've depleted my stocks (save a few bottles of TC and a few Ruby Reds). I've a few kits ready to go, but need to get one on to be ready by Xmas, which of these do you think will be most drinkable in 4 wks!

    Cobnar Wood Northern Brown
    brewferm Grand Cru
    Young's Harvest Barley Wine

    Coopers irish stout
    Muntons Wheat Beer
    Muntons Pilner


Comments

  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    I'd go with the wheat beer. The brown should be OK too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭KAGY


    Thanks,
    I've two buckets so I'll do both! I might even risk putting them in a warmer room, I normally leave them around 17-18 for three weeks, but hard times call for drastic measures :).
    I also have a mini keg (tap-a-draft), so could force carb the wheat beer?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    KAGY wrote: »
    I also have a mini keg (tap-a-draft), so could force carb the wheat beer?
    Using CO2 bulbs? I'd say it would take a lot of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭00833827


    i think with mini-kegs ideally you still need to prime?? the co2 bulbs will just push it out/preserve it for a while -


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭zacmorris


    KAGY wrote: »
    Hi All,
    Due to life's little pressures I haven't made anything in a while and I've depleted my stocks (save a few bottles of TC and a few Ruby Reds). I've a few kits ready to go, but need to get one on to be ready by Xmas, which of these do you think will be most drinkable in 4 wks!

    Cobnar Wood Northern Brown
    brewferm Grand Cru
    Young's Harvest Barley Wine

    Coopers irish stout
    Muntons Wheat Beer
    Muntons Pilner

    Starting a coopers Irish stout myself tonight with the hope of drinking it at Christmas- reckon it won't be ready on time??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    zacmorris wrote: »
    Starting a coopers Irish stout myself tonight with the hope of drinking it at Christmas- reckon it won't be ready on time??

    While it might be drinkable, stout always improves with age ( up to a point obviously - but that point is probably measured in months or years not weeks)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭zacmorris


    While it might be drinkable, stout always improves with age ( up to a point obviously - but that point is probably measured in months or years not weeks)

    Sound, I'll get it on this eve anyway and see how it turns out :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭KAGY


    While it might be drinkable, stout always improves with age ( up to a point obviously - but that point is probably measured in montes or years not weeks)

    On a slightly related note opened a minikeg of finlandia winter ale made in Nov '12 , it was pure mank (prob infected in hindsight) when I opened botles of it a few weeks later. Dumped a few bottles but forgot about the keg. Is actually drinkable now, still a back ground twang, but still drinkable.
    I think I'm missing out drinking my brews too soon, if time can make that crap better maybe I should hold out drinking my beer for a couple of months not weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 741 ✭✭✭poitinstill


    i've turned round the coopers wheat with 1kg wheat dme in about 10 days last summer...i think it actually peaked at about 3 weeks...

    on the finlindia i dumped a corny of it the other day too dont think it was really infected just manky stuff. not a fan of that brand at all...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭zacmorris


    My coopers Irish with 1kg dark malt is 15 days in the fermenter , gravity is at 1.016, what should the final be around? I stupidly forgot to take an original gravity reading...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭blueshed


    i bottled one a few weeks back at 1.014, it started at 1.050.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭zacmorris


    blueshed wrote: »
    i bottled one a few weeks back at 1.014, it started at 1.050.

    Cheers for the reply, I'll give it a few more days and hopefully will get down towards 1.012- 1.014.

    Have you tried any yet?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭zacmorris


    Hi lads,

    Stout has stopped at 1012, so I'm going to bottle (won't be ready for Christmas now?). I have carb drops, but think I'd prefer to prim as have to transfer into bottling bucket anyway.

    What would be the recommended amount of sugar to water to use and also what's the best sugar for it?

    Thanks


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    I use this to work it out, and would be shooting for about 2.2 vols in a stout. I prime with dextrose, but any sugar will do, really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    zacmorris wrote: »

    What would be the recommended amount of sugar to water to use and also what's the best sugar for it?

    Thanks
    Cheap white sugar
    It's cheap
    It will add no flavour to the beer
    It's very widely available
    (Your other half will have one less brewing ingredient to complain about)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭KAGY


    BeerNut wrote: »
    I'd go with the wheat beer. The brown should be OK too.

    Tried both tonight. The wheat beer is stilla bit too sweet - sticky teeth :-E . I'm starting to think I should cut down on the spray malt. The brown ale is nice even if the hoppiness needs to mellow. Not sure either will suit my guests (at least not to start with!) Luckily i picked up some Franzikanker while it was on offer.

    Happy (or should i say "merry") Xmas to all ye home brewers and thanks for the advice through the year


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