What are you brewing?

[nzbrewer]

Since this is the most popular thread on the RealBeer.co.nz forum I thought I would start it here just to see what happens

[Ally Mcg]

Ten days? Cool - thats what i'll try then - add them later this week and leave off bottling till the following weekend. Cheers

[James P]

That's only becuase it gets you a bigger hit... you're just a hop junky....

[Reviled]

;o)

Went and picked up my US hops from Martin late last week, was let in the door and as he pointed at the hops I almost bolted straight for them, opening the centennial and taking a big whiff :o)

Then I looked up and saw his wife looking at me strangely saying they may have to put up "opening hours" on their front door :o) bahaha

[Martin Bridges]

Ah, she's getting used to it by now. However, she is complaining that my hop collection is taking over the freezer....

[Reviled]

You dont have your own freezer yet? Ive got my own one and even im starting to run out of room, I couldnt imagine actually having to share my space with food?!?! :o) haha.. Does your fermentation fridge not have a freezer space?

[Martin Bridges]

We have 2 freezers, so I have a corner of one of them. Which is quickly expanding towards being a whole shelf.

Neither the fermentation fridge or keg fridge has a freezer.

[Reviled]

Thats a bit of a bummer, thats where I scored my freezer space on my ferm fridge, allthough if it didnt have it id be able to fit a fermenter and not just a cube...

At least youve got freezer space tho and dont have to store them on the shelf or in the cupboard :o)

[James P]

My wife wanted the freezer in my man cave (garage) so she gave up the right to two shelves.... one for hops and one for yeast...

I also have my own freezer for my kegs and fridge for my fermenter... my garage is starting to look like the whiteware department of noel leemings...

[Reviled]

lol, its crazy aye, can never have too many fridges :o) Two cool rooms would be ideal, one just wouldnt cut it :oP lol

[Reviled]

Just went and grabbed a Coopers Lager kit for my Doppelbock yeast starter... There was something not quite right about the whole thing!

I feel so.. so dirty :o( lol

[Reviled]

Semi disaster last night :o( Made up my coopers kit to 10 litres and then without thinking pitched the smack pack, then thought... Better check the temp... 32*c Fuck! Couple of litres of cold water and some ice cubes quickly brought it down to 28*c and then chucked in an ice bath to bring down to 18*c over an hour or so...

Woke up this morning and nothings happened yet, allthough hopefully theres still hope for the lil suckers? The volume is more like 12-13litres now so there no doubt would be some lag time anyways...

Oh well, heres hoping!

[denimglen]

Oh yeah sorry bro, got your text when I was at the casino, couldn't reply at the time and then totally forgot.

"No phone at table!!!!!"

Did you pitch the smack into a starter at 32? Should be fine, just crank it up again for another round, yeast will ferment that high it's just not that good for them, I usually aim for about 22 - 24C for starters.