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Posted: Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 11:45 am
by Oliver
thehipone wrote:I have boiled a Morgans kit, which is supposedly "specially kettled for excess clarity"
Hmmm. Excess clarity.
Would anyone hazard a guess at what the hell that means?
Oliver
Posted: Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 12:26 pm
by Dogger Dan
You can see through it?
Like water............like their beer..........
Just a guess
Dogger
Posted: Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 9:29 pm
by Tipsy
Oliver wrote:thehipone wrote:I have boiled a Morgans kit, which is supposedly "specially kettled for excess clarity"
Hmmm. Excess clarity.
Would anyone hazard a guess at what the hell that means?
Oliver
If I have a beer with excess clarity I give it a shake to stir up the sediment.
Posted: Monday Oct 10, 2005 1:44 am
by 50% Mogman
Thanks for the input, comrades.
....clarified a few things for me.....
John.
Posted: Monday Oct 10, 2005 6:38 am
by yardglass
Dogger Dan wrote:
....unless you are placing the pot directly on an electric oven which you shouldn't do.....
Hi Dogger,
What difference does the heat source make to the boil ?
Heat is Heat isn't it ?
yardglass
Posted: Monday Oct 10, 2005 8:54 am
by Dogger Dan
Ahhh,
See, there in lies the issue.
Electric heat is a point source, gas is " all round"
(think about the element foot print in your pan when you boil water)
When boiling wort, it you don't displace it off the electrical element you can burn the sugars and then you will really see the element imprint. This also goes for funky little electrical immersion heaters to.
I will guarentee that 90 percent of the people who tell me their malt darkened with boiling are using electric stoves. The rest have nuclear powered natural gas
They make little things to displace the pot off the element which are cheap cheap cheap
Dogger
Posted: Monday Oct 10, 2005 3:19 pm
by yardglass
Thanks Dogger,
Will get one.
yardglass
Posted: Monday Oct 10, 2005 8:00 pm
by NTRabbit
I boiled the result of 100g of steeped crystal grain, a 1.5kg can of amber malt and a coopers real ale can and the wort came out much much darker than i was anticipating. I guess my gas stove is nuclear powered, or I underestimated what i was getting.
Posted: Monday Oct 10, 2005 8:58 pm
by Dogger Dan
That Amber is a lot darker than most expect. I was suprised. I used an Amber malt on my last couple of brews cause there was no pale malt and gees Louise, they were dark, Nut Brown Dark
But to clarify a bit, I had read about this electric vs gas issue and never thought anything about it as I boiled on my electric stove but I could never make that really light blonde colour. Beer was good so I didn't worry.
As soon as I bought my gas stove, I hit it every time.
Dogger