Recent content by brewtimus

Happy new years all. Ok I have to say this is the first and last recipe I ever follow. While I respect what you guys think of Jamil this dunkle is really dissapointing. I wish I would have gone with my first instincts and gone with the dark grains. Holy cow this thing is maybe a shade...

So for a 24 gallon pilsner batch with an o.g. around 1.065 what would you suggest. 4-5 yeast vials in a two liter starter? I could make another starter with an airlock and stopper on it and ferment the yeast at intended main batch temperatures or does that even matter?

Thanks for the replies. It went down the drain, lesson learned. I guess next time I'll be using a stopper and airlock. I can't figure out why i get so much mold in that chest freezer. I wipe it down with bleach and water and put a beach towel in the bottom under the kegs too. Btw I was gonna...

So I made a 2 liter yeast starter with two vials of wlp pilsner lager yeast. I covered it with foil and put the erlynmeyer flask in my kegerator freezer to keep it at 54 degrees. Long story short, got busy couldn't brew and left for work. A week later I came home and there was a precious...

Man, thank you for all the prompt replies. I picked up a couple pounds of special B and a pound of carafa II to go that route. Gonna throw in 4 lbs of honey at flameout. Very excited to see this one go. Hope I take enough yeast out of the bottom dump that it doesn't blow up my conical, lol...

Hello thinking of brewing a Dunkel this week and pitch it over my hefeweizen cake in the fermenter. Anyone use any crystal in their dunkels with success? I was thinking about this for a grain bill 20 gallon batch 60-70% wheat 30 lbs 20% marris otter 10 lbs Munich 7 lbs crystal 60L...