Basic Brewing Video - Triangle Test - November 30, 2011

James puts Steve on the spot as he tries to find the odd, but tasty, sample in an experiment.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• beer
• homebrew
• experiment
• triangle
• test
• belgian
• Brewing

[arrogantbastardale]

Very interesting! One question for you: how long did the beers ferment for? I know that plastic buckets have a little more passage of oxygen, but that effect is said to take a long time (couple of months?).

[basicbrewing]

@arrogantbastardale The beers were in the primary for two weeks, then I racked to a bottling bucket and bottled. I don't think the permeability of the plastic to O2 was an issue. - James

[MaximAvs]

I wonder if there would be a difference in a metal conical fermenter or a plastic better bottle as well?

[basicbrewing]

@MaximAvs One of the brewers who conducted the collaborative experiment compared a stainless conical with a glass carboy. He didn't note any difference between the two. - James

[mlaudio72]

Funny...I was toying with the idea of building or buying an economical conical fermenter. These would be plastic, and I now wonder if they final product would be better than my current glass carbon system. Interesting...thanks for posting!

[basicbrewing]

@mlaudio72 Have a listen to the Basic Brewing Radio episode I just posted. In the second beer I brewed as a split batch between fermenters, I didn't detect any differences. I want to brew the Belgian again to see if I can repeat our results from this test. - James

[blawjr]

really cool experiment, interesting to see what sort of differences fermenter shape would contribute, maybe one day will be fermenting in totally different shaped fermenters :-P

[bowow0807]

hay james you haven't been responding to some of my emails but well i might just post them on your facebook page, since that has always given me a response

[arrogantbastardale]

@basicbrewing Wow, yeah.. totally good experiment!  Cheers!

[bvmujati]

''Close your eyes and think of England" - Hilarious!!