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GreGorGy said:
I'm envious of my nitro head. Now, I kick the puppy - as cute as she is - out of the bed and let her sleep outside in the driving snow while I take my nitro setup to bed. I hesitated on it a bit but the results are so pleasing, I am annoyed at myself for waiting.
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You're quite convincing when it comes to nitro kegging. 😁
 
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Snyper564 said:
Haha I must say that's one thing that gets me the most about homemade beer. Just because it's homemade doesn't mean a 7.2% porter doesn't pack a punch. Quite excited for my boddingtons clone now. Will be using another kveik strain this one specifically aimed at ales so I'm super keen to see how it goes after the porters success with the Ragnarok kveik. The other strain I have is for lagers that I'll use for my Stella clone after this.

Def top cropping or harvesting from a starter never never bottom again!
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Snyper564 said:
Haha I must say that's one thing that gets me the most about homemade beer. Just because it's homemade doesn't mean a 7.2% porter doesn't pack a punch.
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Exactly... my 11.5% Easter Quads have a big kick; it's a delicious that's best enjoyed slowly.

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Quite excited for my boddingtons clone now. Will be using another kveik strain this one specifically aimed at ales so I'm super keen to see how it goes after the porters success with the Ragnarok kveik. The other strain I have is for lagers that I'll use for my Stella clone after this.
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You've done amazing -- literally like a duck to beer flavoured water.

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Def top cropping or harvesting from a starter never never bottom again!
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I'm even more convinced of that with my open fermentation -- although I'm not saving anything that I currently scoop. I want to finish off all my stir plates before I start down that really intriguing rabbit hole.
 
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Snyper564 said:
Haha I must say that's one thing that gets me the most about homemade beer. Just because it's homemade doesn't mean a 7.2% porter doesn't pack a punch. Quite excited for my boddingtons clone now. Will be using another kveik strain this one specifically aimed at ales so I'm super keen to see how it goes after the porters success with the Ragnarok kveik. The other strain I have is for lagers that I'll use for my Stella clone after this.

Def top cropping or harvesting from a starter never never bottom again!
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I got one of those Ragnaroks and I am busy right now with the same clone recipe (I wanna put 20L in my keg) and I was just going to pitch S-04 but I think now I will throw a kveik at it. Mine's liquid culture and the guy who supplied the nitro tap recommended that yeast for brews.
 
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GreGorGy said:
I got one of those Ragnaroks and I am busy right now with the same clone recipe (I wanna put 20L in my keg) and I was just going to pitch S-04 but I think now I will throw a kveik at it. Mine's liquid culture and the guy who supplied the nitro tap recommended that yeast for brews.
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Yeah I bought all 3 liquid culture yeast strains Ragnarok Oslo and midbust

Just careful Ragnarok is the porter stout strain not the ale one. Just look at the liquid culture website
 
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I've only bottled... have been avoiding kegging because of all the costs, plus it makes it more difficult for buddies.
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Yeah this is the part I agree with. I think if I went the kegging route I would love a bunch of 5l kegs but they are veery expensive
 
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Snyper564 said:
Yeah all that. I used to have a high tech planted aquarium and had the entire c02 side that I would have needed for kegging but sold that 2 years ago...
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Also a bit restrictive in a way... i.e. you can only make as many different beers as you have kegs -- bottles comparatively are very flexible for experimentation. Also the lifespan of beer in kegs is a bit worrying; I have bottled beers from >10 months ago that wouldn't be possible with kegging. Even then as much as it doesn't sound so practical -- the micro bubble head on that nitro beer looks just so good.
 
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[)roi(] said:
Also a bit restrictive in a way... i.e. you can only make as many different beers as you have kegs -- bottles comparatively are very flexible for experimentation. Also the lifespan of beer in kegs is a bit worrying; I have bottled beers from >10 months ago that wouldn't be possible with kegging. Even then as much as it doesn't sound so practical -- the micro bubble head on that nitro beer looks just so good.
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I've hedged my bets a bit in this regard: not everything is kegged. Bottles are still being used, albeit less. Like now, I will keg about 30L and bottle about 20, so when kegs run dry I can live on bottles. And since it is still new, and I need to find my feet, I will be inviting people over to sample the kegs. That's how the first 10 disappeared in 3 days.

New kegs are rare and expensive at the moment. But an SAB keg can be found for the R300 deposit. Then I just shift that spear and clean it out and have a spare. And I have the coupler for it. It's the lifespan of the beer in the keg that is the only real catch. But at any given moment, there's two of us drinking from it so we can manage but we will need to get smarter when I stop inviting people over.
 
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Carahell Pilsner
  • Diluted 15%
  • ABV 6%
  • SRM 7.32
  • IBU 19.74
  • Fermented for 8 days
  • Bottled primed for 3 days
  • Head retention Not too bad; dissipates slower than the Vienna Pilsner
  • Finings: No additives; double filtration, and then I pumped the fermented wort to a separate bottling bucket to avoid any trub contamination.
Verdict: Delicious, another very quaffable beer for heavy drinking without regrets.
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