Recent content by citizen1

i havnt had an experience with champagne yeast but yeast can play a very important roll in the creation of the taste in beer and my opinion is that the champagne yeast changed the taste of your beer. i dont think you need to combine different yeast styles... unless you want to... if the beer...

maybe you can add the spices sanitized and then try to "dry-spice" like dry hop for a couple of days... i used to do no chill and that is the way i treated the late hop additions... transformed them to dry hop... well some of them...

if you are going in a way its not mean that this is the right way... suit yourself i think that not re-hydrate the yeast its taking a chance that the fermentation progress will not go as planed...

have you re-hydrated the dry yeast??

in designing great beers by ray daniels you can find a good review about the german wheat's... and if i remmember well other german styles to...

well first thing i have to tell you that i did'nt had in mind to use a non magnetic pump...! second i have seen a person who uses a washing machine pump to flow his sparge water. my homebrew shop guy told me that there is no risk in using them but only the formality that should be...

just to let you know... i went to my homebrew shop today to ask about the pump... he straight a head told me to get a washing machine pump... as long as im not commercialized... so im guessing that that can help you in alternative to an expensive march pump... :)

first of all thanks for the answers... secondly, i am building a mash tun that is heated by electricity, and so i heard that i need to circulate my wort during the mash to equale tempartures. my father and i discussed that and we decided that the best way to do so its a pump. at start i...

hello, im new in home brew. i myself started to build an all grain setup, and i rally dont have 120$ for a pump, does a washing machine pump can be good for homebrewing?? is there anyone here that uses a washing machine pump? thank you :)