Recent content by bigbadal

OK i'll go ahead with those recommendations and see what I get, thanks both of you.

I just picked up a bag of said base malt for brewing a few hop forward saisons and a few white IPAs Whilst having a pint at my favourite local brewery after passing through the LHBS i asked the brewer what he did about pilsner malt and DMS his answer went like this; I have a closed boil...

If you're a foam junkie ad 4oz each of wheat/flaked barley/carafoam it will not affect your clarity and your friends will give you some kind of illustrious title like "FOAMASTER" :mug:

Get some pride of ringwood hops and do a standard australian bitter 1oz FWH and 1oz 15min with marris otter or an australian IPA that uses galaxy hops if you can get your hands on them, I brought back some hops to Canada from Australia so i'm experimenting with them as we speak

my god...you don't know what you're getting yourself into my friend. I have 4 high yielding plants and its a big job at picking time, not to mention watering and pruning in the spring/summer! you're going to have a lot of hops to brew with, how do you plan to dry them?

I brewed a white galaxy IPA 1,050 and pitched a tube of WLP380 and it took off fermenting very quickly and i let the temp freerise just to its maximum recommended temp then i went to the basement to bring the temp down i discovered a massive sulphur stench bomb! it is still fermenting away in...

The grist looks perfect but I would change 20min hop to fuggles and 1 min to a 10 min EKG

Wow, give it a try! Worst case is you get something non viable for beer. Best case is you have a true wild yeast! good luck

no worries buddy it's not obvious the first time, just a one second blast each pull and thats it with the pressure 10-20 as you said.:mug:

test your system with water (no need to carbonate the water) wind it up to functional pressures and put some starsan or soapy water on everything and check for leaks, If the seals are wet then they will be ok but if you can get your hands on some keg lube then do it, I pull the keg disconnects...

I would back off on the molasses, if it dominates the flavour profile you won't be happy.

10 lbs Grambinus pale 1 lbs carrared 8 oz flaked barley 4 oz crystal 45L 4 oz carafoam 4 oz biscuit malt 2 oz carafa III special 1 oz Chinook (homegrown) 60min 1 oz fuggles (homegrown) 15min I get 75% efficiency so it should come out @ 5.5% ABV am I being a little...

yep check it out mate, you will love it!

10lb grambinus ESB ,5lb carared 1oz black malt 4oz medium crystal english hops and english yeast

you could do a nice CDA with those hops