What are you brewing?

[Dewald Posthumus Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dewald Posthumus]

You could still add the gelatin ... mix as usual and add it to the keg with a syringe via the prv valve ...

release pressure on keg ...
unscrew prv (that's if you have one)
and inject liquid ....
this will introduce just about zero OČ

SAB kegs, so I can just depressurize it, open it up, chuck in gelatin and purge...nah, will live with my mistakes and ensure I always have gelatin in stock...

So leer mens uit jou foute uit...

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

best is to present it as is, and learn from it. You are trying to over-engineer a simple beer, trust what you made and roll with it. Like i've said before, you will never ever be 100% happy with what you present when somebody is else is marking your homework, so just go with it.

Dunno how else to articulate it, but go with it and try again, you are judging the beer before it's been judged.

so much this !!!!

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

SAB kegs, so I can just depressurize it, open it up, chuck in gelatin and purge...nah, will live with my mistakes and ensure I always have gelatin in stock...

So leer mens uit jou foute uit...

Yea, My last 2 kegs also didn't get gelatin and altho i could add via the PRV, I also thought nah ... im the only one drinking it, so who cares what it looks like

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

You are trying to over-engineer a simple beer

That's the thing, it's a simple beer, but VERY hard to get perfect. I learned this the hard way this time. 5% ABV, very little colour, 16 IBUs, it's not easy. At all.

[Dewald Posthumus Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dewald Posthumus]

That's the thing, it's a simple beer, but VERY hard to get perfect. I learned this the hard way this time. 5% ABV, very little colour, 16 IBUs, it's not easy. At all.

Tell you what, buy some Craft Lagers and compare, I'm sure it will stack up just fine against them.

Ask yourself the question, what would you do different next time? If there is something, then cool, if there's nothing, then what?

By over-engineering I meant trying to add copper to the keg and all sorts...

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

+1 dont mess it up know ... you've done what you've set out to do ... enter as is and learn from it ...

why fuck it up now with copper and what-not just because you read about somewhere or such.

Soos Snotkop sal sê "Raak vir my Rustig!"

[Chris S Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris S]

Thanks for the feedback guys! Will look into it. My baseline knowledge on this is 0. My plan is to make 2lt starters, keep 500ml and pitch the rest. Will try keep the stored yeast for less than 3 months before re-building

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A liquid yeast pure pitch pack has around 100B cells when manufactured and it can't be more than 50ml
It depends on your method. If your saved 500ml is mostly wort then you can have around 100B in there. If your 500ml is just yeast it could be 500B.
A good yeast calculator that shows you your overbuild volume is the best way to understand it.

The way I'm saving and freezing yeast I should be getting 20B in 6ml

[Chris S Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris S]

You could still add the gelatin ... mix as usual and add it to the keg with a syringe via the prv valve ...

release pressure on keg ...
unscrew prv (that's if you have one)
and inject liquid ....
this will introduce just about zero OČ

I've also seen a YouTube vid of using a plastic bottle and carbonation cap to get your gelatin into the keg O2 free. Basically the pressure in the bottle is higher then the keg.
You have a dip tube from the carbonation cap into a small bit of gelatin disolved in liquid. Pop on a gas to gas line and gelatin will transfer from bottle to keg.

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

I've also seen a YouTube vid of using a plastic bottle and carbonation cap to get your gelatin into the keg O2 free. Basically the pressure in the bottle is higher then the keg.
You have a dip tube from the carbonation cap into a small bit of gelatin disolved in liquid. Pop on a gas to gas line and gelatin will transfer from bottle to keg.

Aah yes, i think I've seen that video

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

So the copper thing is a trick from winemaking, it's not a gimmick, it really works (if there's sulphur present). To be honest, if I stack this up against a commercial lager, there's something amiss. I'm not sure what it is, but (from the bottle anyway) there seems to be a slight off flavour, almost powdery dry and slightly fruity. I want to know what caused that and how to fix it. Personally, I think it's the yeast, or the fact that I pitched the entire yeast slurry and didn't decant the oxidized beer on top of the yeast. I forgot to do that, and it was a pretty large amount. Could be oxidization.

[Chris S Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris S]

Going to do a DIPA this weekend. Should get columbus and El dorado hops this week

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Going to do a DIPA this weekend. Should get columbus and El dorado hops this week

Where you getting the ElDorado from ?

[Chris S Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris S]

Where you getting the ElDorado from ?

Africa hops are having a massive sale. They asked me not to mention prices on online forum as they are wholesalers.
I'll tell you I paid R295 per kg for the El dorado
Email Marc sales@africahops.co.za

[Dewald Posthumus Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dewald Posthumus]

Africa hops are having a massive sale. They asked me not to mention prices on online forum as they are wholesalers.
I'll tell you I paid R295 per kg for the El dorado
Email Marc sales@africahops.co.za

Now you've gone and done it!

We will all mail them today for specials thanks!

[Chris S Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris S]

Now you've gone and done it!

We will all mail them today for specials thanks!

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