Nothing to do this summer

[Dogger Dan]

Installed this last weekend. Am taking it out for a spin today


Dogger

http://spaces.msn.com/members/DoggersBrewery/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c=&_c02_owner=1

[grabman]

yip yeah,

go Dogger!!!

Had a look will, check back soon to watch it grow!

[Dogger Dan]

Well,

was a hell of a dream, best on I've had in years.

Dogger

[dab123]

There has to be a twist to this one ?
maybe Dogger is not realy a home brewer
but the owner of one of Canada's top brewerys !!!!

[anti-fsck]

Dogger, you bastard. You made me cry.
Going downstairs now to run the tape measure over everything.

[Dogger Dan]

Sorry guys,

That was the dream I had the other night,

Reality still has me with a plastic primary and glass secondary.......but the beer is just fine thank you. One day though, one day........

Dogger

[munkey]

i make stuff like that for a living, it guts me that i haven't got free access to the machinery or materials, how come when you have the capability you never have the inspiration. the law of the sod me thinks.

makes me think,
it would take a lot of convincing the missus.

[simonb]

Dogger
Why do you use the plastic for your primary fermentation?
I would have thought it would be better for that to be in the glass?

Ideally, would you use two glass fermenters?

[Dogger Dan]

I seem to brew a bit different than others here but the end is the same.

The Plastic primary is actually 31 L with a mark at 23 L so you have head space for the yeast cap. As fermentations tend to be rather violent in the begining with copious quantities of CO2 being generated and huge positive pressures so I am not stressed about bacteria leaping in.

As the fermentation calms down, I transfer out of the pail to a 23 L glass secondary. No big yeast cap so it fits just nicely in the bottle with small headspace

Dogger