Comments on: Saturday Summer Lightning

By: chromosphere » Early Morning Bitter

chromosphere » Early Morning Bitter — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:56:07 +0000

[...] the hopback yeast skimmed off the top of the Summer Lightning clone. Again, it toook off well, but then slowed up – eventually (2.5 weeks later), it was down to 1.008 [...]

By: Graeme Coates

Graeme Coates — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:56:29 +0000

Absolutely – Hopback is a vigorous top fermenter – it has continuously regenerated a thick yeasty sludge at the top of the fermenter, and this after I cropped a batch off for future use and skimmed a couple more loads off. It’s taken 2 weeks, but we’re down to 1013 (4.8% ABV) – I reckon it must be done now (??)… maybe I think I’ll crash cool and bottle this week. I’ll reuse this one again and see if it does the same for me after two or three brews with it

By: John

John — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:42:19 +0000

I grew some yeast up for the guys in the brewing group and they’ve been brewing with it and passing it round for a few weeks now. I found that it really hit it’s straps after the second or third brew it fermented, I got a slug of it back off Rob and it went crazy, it filled the eight litre space in the top of my fermenter four times and still fermented the brew out even with me scooping the head into sterilised takeaway cartons, top stuff. Next up for me is either Brakspear or Black Isle.