Recent content by brent77

Hey all, not sure if this is the proper place for this question so feel free to let me know if I should post elsewhere. I've been brewing beer for years, but decided I would try my first hard seltzer recipe today. Brought 2 gals RO water up to boiling, killed the flame and added 4.5 lbs of...

That's kind of what I assumed I've just never seen it like this before. Grain bill was: 86% 2 row / 8% flaked wheat / 6% honey malt

Unlikely as the kettle has no valves. It is definitely something from the wort/hops.

Hi All, Mid boil last night I noticed a film starting on part of the surface, and and also some stringing/film like floating around. Best way to describe it would be like when you drop an egg into boiling water, what the whites look like as they float around. some of them got to be about 6"...

Kind of winging it but thinking about: Belching Beaver Modern Times Monkey Paw Lost Abbey/Pizza Port Alpine Churchills Ballast Point Stone

Going to San Diego this weekend if anyone wants anything from there or any breweries i'll be stopping by on the way between Los Angeles and San Diego let me know, offer some trades. :mug:

Being from bakersfield, you will probably have an easier time getting Kern River Brewing Company beers than Russian river. If you guys haven't had those, you should trade zombie dust for some just outstanding ipa.

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Anyone know if adding malto in secondary would have any effect on aroma intensity?

now I am more confused, as I just read in "how to brew" that as the gravity of a wort increases the less AA are able to isomerize...So in theory, shouldn't the ibu's of your recipe have gone down if you left the additions the same? "It is the gravity of the boil (1.080) that is used in figuring...

Could the longer boil time have an effect on the utilization of the hops? Regardless of when you add hops, I imagine there are chemical reactions happening within the wort itself for the additional 60 mins of boiling before you add the hops. There may be some coefficient at play...

Do you run a bottle shop, or is that your personal cellar? I only asked because I see you have 41 bottles of matilda, haha.

On his site it says that you can "in app upgrade" from the lite version to the full version for the difference in price. So in this case it would cost $3 to upgrade for you.

I think what he was getting at here, is his Wort was tasting like all wort does when its yet to be fermented. It is not a "great" flavor, and will taste nothing like beer. Try tasting the wort when you take your pre boil gravity, it will not have that HARSH acrid flavor that freshly boiled hops...