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jema
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 21 12:34 pm Post subject: The science of mashing

My mashing has been getting slacker and slacker over the years.
Pour all the barley in the pot heat to "about right" drain add more water, repeat.
Seems to have been working ok.

This year I thought I'd watch some youtube for tips and use the baby burco and a temperature regulator, got some iodine (stuff for horses is cheap) to look at starch levels, do things in two batches so there's more circulation...

Guess what? I'm still getting pretty much the exact same specific gravity as when I was just chucking stuff in and hoping.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 21 1:03 pm Post subject:

rough but sound chemistry works

my wine and "sherry" making is even more unreciped than i would have expected after a long time doing such things

as folk know from my recipes it is often some, a while and hottish or such vagueness

with this the important stuff is losing the nose and tail by biochem or chem, both is good

how you do it is irrelevant (explosions excluded

i have heard a shed story)

dpack

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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 21 1:07 pm Post subject:
an unnamable rainbow tribe chap and the wormwood and valerian potcheen was an education the monk juice stuff is fun but lightweight double or triple bubble is good

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 21 6:53 am Post subject:
The only thing I am very careful about with wine making is sterilising everything. Otherwise it is 'about right'.

jema
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 21 6:21 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

The only thing I am very careful about with wine making is sterilising everything. Otherwise it is 'about right'.

Been giving me buckets their seasonal major clean, but I'm more into quick ferments with turbo yeasts, I don't think the nasties stand much of a chance with them.

Shane

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Posted: Sun May 02, 21 11:21 am Post subject:
If I were in the habit of fermenting anything - which I'm not, for obvious reasons - I'd be a big fan of turbo yeast as well. I would still be pretty careful with cleanliness but perhaps not as rigorous as with regular beer/wine yeast and wouldn't have had any problems. The above is, of course, entirely hypothetical.

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