Dark Velvet Stout Pressure Barrel & Priming Wilko Home Brew Beer Kit UK Part #8
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
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Interesting vid . You should have a longer tube to fill barrel from the bottom. Keep oxygen to a minimum
Very interesting bit of kit that pressurised barrel. Have never seen anything like it here in the colony.
My English bitter has come out a little under-carbonated but its still a hell of a drop.
This weekend just past, I had a workmate who bought himself a Coopers Homebrew Kit come over and I've set into the FV Thermo control fridge 2 FVs. 1 is a Muntons Continental Pilsner, and 1 Morgans Ginger Beer. Couldn't film as I had company, but next time! Promise :)
Thanks for sharing mate.
From what I have read thery are meant to be better for storing/conditioning than bottles, the barrels are. Pour straight from the barrel to the glass & top the Co2 up to keep the beer flowing from the tap, so though I would give it a go since I had the equipment. I would have thought you would get them as easily as we do, as there for sale everywhere you look that sells home brew hear.
What did you you carbonate the bitter with & how much? Two drops in the bottle for the Newkie Brown worked a treat.
I have looked at the ginger beer and would like to try a non alcho one, might give it a go but am now looking for a Christmas beer to start, not come across one yet that takes my fancy.
Glad you liked the video mate, all the best.
Do a search on Instagram for #ddoubletap to see my first beer with a label :) roriski is my username.
I usually do 1 and a half carb drops per beer, so I don't get over-carbonation, but I think I need to just run it as 2. I leave my beers in the FV for much longer these days. Well past when they should have stopped fermenting.
As for the ginger beer, let me give you a top gear top tip. Grab an FV that you use SOLELY for ginger beer, otherwise your Newkie will taste like a Newkie with ginger, and your porter will taste like a porter with ginger. Unless you're using glass or stainless, you'll always retain a bit of that ginger smell and taste. I currently have 3 FVs, and I run 2 at a time most often. I seem to go through my alcoholic ginger beer as quickly as I can brew it. The missus loves it, and its the beer all my workmates want as well.
Non-alcoholic is great if you want it for the kiddies, but a 3% ABV in summer is just insanely good with ice cubes. For winter, I run it closer to 5% and its a hit.
So hold off on the ginger beer until you want to get a second fermenter would be my suggestion, otherwise keep brewing!
Just had a look at the labels there well smart & a great beer name too :)
I think thats why the Sweet Newkie Brown was good as it was in the FV 2 weeks then straight to bottle for a month, I also think the bottle and where it is stored makes a difference aswell.
Very nice tip's with the ginger beer, I had no idea it left an after tayst so very glad you mentioned that as I have not seen that mentioned anywhere before. I now have 5 FV's so should be able to keep one aside just for the GBeer & will now I know.
I want to start a Christmas beer next as well as a GBeer so they get plenty of time before santa arrives :)
Also a cream liquor but can only do that 2 weeks prior to Christmas because of the ingredience, as it will need to be drunk quick, as it will go off (double cream) etc.
Well plenty of food for though there, love the lablels mate, nice one :)
cheers chum very informative thanks
Cheers Paul, glad you liked it :)
You've done some nice brews mate. I've got a sweet newkie brown kit. Definitely doing the stout after
Cheers mate, glad you like them so far. The Sweet Newkie Brown is geting better every time I try a bottle. If you like stouts then give the Coopers Original Stout a go that I done a while back it is very good. Let me know how you get on with your brews :)
ive all ready had some of my ipa hehe and ive made some Mexican Cerveza by bulldog
Was the IPA a Wilko kit? How did both of those turn out and did you add anything to the kit?
the wilko's ipa i just used normal sugar and the yeast came with it turned out all right and the Mexican Cerveza i used beer enhancer and it came with some hops but its not ready yet only did it on thursday
Does the normal sugar work just as well as brewing sugar? As some people were saying that it can leave an after tayst, not tried it myself so not sure if it's true or not. I might give the IPA from Wilko a try I think, I have had some bottle's from the supermarket but it gave me a headace can't remember what ones they were though as it was a good while back.
Normal sugar does work as well as brewing sugar - they're as bad as each other, lol!
Brewing sugar is pure dextrose (aka glucose), normal sugar is 50% glucose, 50% fructose. The yeast will cleave it into glucose and sucrose and then eat it and produce alcohol all the same. The aftertaste coming from it being table sugar has been debunked:
www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=90498
The problems come from when you're just adding loads of sugar to a kit. The sugar gets totally converted by the yeast to alcohol and doesn't leave any maltyness or any of the beer flavours you're after.
Geordie/Muntons beer enhancers tend to be 50% dextrose, 50% light malt extract which is a move in the right direction, and a bag costs about 6 quid. But in Wilkos just buy a bag of spraymalt for £4.50 and you can choose light, medium or dark and then add 500g of sugar, which is 22p if you get the 2kg bags from Morrison's and you've just saved yourself £1.28 in creating the same thing.
Coopers Brew Enhancer 1 is 60% dextrose, 40% maltodextrin - maltodextrin doesn't brew out so leaves an extra thickness and body so you'll end up with a higher finishing gravity. So you're getting only 600g of fermentables if you use that.
Brew Enhancer 2 is 50% dextrose, 25% maltodextrin, 25% spraymalt - better than Enhancer 1 but still less malt than a brew enhancer.
Of course you'd want to use all spraymalt if you could but it's damn expensive and adding a kilo will add another 9 quid. You might as well pay for a 2 can kit at that price. If you want to try stepping things up a bit you could buy some pale malt, do a mash and boil it and use that which works really well and you get the equivalent of a kilo of spraymalt for £1.50 if you buy a 25kg bag, but I'm not pushing that as it's a bit daunting, even though all you need is a saucepan and a bit of curtains.
But - don't even worry about using sugar for priming. Chris White from whitelabs says use table sugar to prime your barrel and bottles because the taste is imperceptible. That makes me so happy.
I bulk prime for bottles with 23g of sugar per gallon boiled in a little water and added to the bucket and I find that's spot on.
Sorry for the lecture!
And I read you didn't fancy a lager kit - good plan! We didn't start homebrewing to drink bloody lager. And they're almost always tasteless. And it's pointless arguing with me over that.
Cheers, dude.
Good to know about the sugar, think I will give it a go with table sugar next then & add spray malt.
I did just win an auction on bay that was for 25kg of Muntons spray malt, it's priced of the web for £250-£320 & I won it for £29 so bargain of the year there. It's in date, sealed & an original item so well happy with that.
Not a fan of larger, so can't see myself ever doing a kit.
Great info there and well appreciated,
Cheers mate :)
Why add co2 when you have added priming sugar?
Is there always enough yeast left for the priming sugar when you put into the pb?
I use all the yeast in the original fermentation, so I don't have any left over. You could do a secondary fermentation but would need a new yeast etc I prime the barrel for carbonation only and not a secondary fermentation on this brew.
DDoubleTap
thanks. I will be doing the same thing today for my ale. first time.
How long do you wait once it is in the pb before taking a sneaky drink? I think when you move it to pb you have to leave it for a while to carbonate? so can u still take a drink while you wait?
I leave it a minimum of 1 month before I have a 1st drink, but the longer you leave it the better it should be. The carbonation works the same for bottles as well as the barrel, the longer you leave it the better the carbonation is too, good luck and let me know hoe you get on :)
I'm new to all this. So do you bottle it after it's been in the pb or can you decant straight in to a glass and drink?