A day in the life in the JoKing Brewery.

Comment by JoKing on April 19, 2009 at 4:15pm

And the Naked Blonde is fully cranking now... Good old 03-09 Batch of US-05! Gotta love that stuff!

Comment by denimglen on April 19, 2009 at 4:26pm

Interesting to see you only use 200mg of servomyces, is that the reccommended dosage?

Your chiller is 15m of 1/2" with the whirlpool aye? What temp did you get to in that 15mins from flameout to whirlpool-out? Any idea of water temp? Just wondering, ditched the plate chiller in favour of one of these and just wondering what to expect next brewday.

Comment by JoKing on April 19, 2009 at 4:33pm

Yeah - the recommended dose is 1 gram per hectoliter of wort. If you overdo this stuff it creates insane cell growth (resulting in off flavours in the beer).

Good question mate. It's astounding how fast these chill... and there are soooo many benefits of having the ability to chill all the wort at once, while it is whirlpooling. At the end of the day, the hop flavour in the beer is much more pronounced.

Anyway... by 5 mins (at this time of the year) the wort is at 40 - 50 degrees. 10 mins it is 25 - 30 and 15 mins it's at the same temp as the water. I turn the whirlpool off when it's reached temperature equalibrium.... but I leave the water running with the wort in the kettle for at least and hour and a half - just so that all the break material settles to the bottom.

I cant wait for winter - to see what really cold supply water will do here.

Comment by denimglen on April 19, 2009 at 6:04pm

Yeah the plate chiller is awesome but with the clogging and slow overall cooling times it's not doing much justice, maybe if you had glycol or some fancy below-freezing coolant it would be better. But even recirculating back into the kettle I'm looking at about 30 mins to about 30 - 35C. Kinda sealed the deal with the amber I brewed with hop bag and plate, and 120g hops in the last 15 mins and has only the slightest hint of hop aroma.

Comment by Mike Neilson on April 19, 2009 at 7:11pm

Loving the Krausen!! Cant to see it sister on my bitter!! Bubbles after 2 hrs This stuff is like Viagra!! so ive Heard!!!

Comment by studio1 on April 19, 2009 at 7:18pm

I've got some 1469 about to blow the lid off my fermenter on a brown ale. I love it!

Comment by Mike Neilson on April 19, 2009 at 7:26pm

I take it youve got temp control aye!! Dont want it to be to hot!!

Comment by studio1 on April 19, 2009 at 8:07pm

yip, sitting at 19.

Comment by JoKing on April 19, 2009 at 8:09pm

I'll be keen to know how things turn out with your 1469 - there seem to be a few of us on here noticing that it doesn't drop down from the top of the fermenter... even after a generous rousing, 30mins later - it's back!

Comment by Mike Neilson on April 19, 2009 at 8:27pm

Nice see how I go I have about 21-22 in the fermenter so F'all head space, so im expecting abit in the blow tube!!

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