Recent content by decaf111

I brewed a Pilsner Urquell clone using a kolsch yeast and kept it in primary for 3.5 weeks then racked it onto isinglass. It's in the fridge right now cooling down to mid 30s but the taste after 3.5 weeks in the mid to high 50s during primary is fantastic. So crisp and clean. I think high 50s is...

Also doing my first lager and am wondering if lowering the temperature after fermentation incrementally on a daily basis is necessary. I don't have the ability to do that right now so planning on doing 10d@52F/diacetyl rest@60/8@36/4@?. And as for carbing - does this need to be at a lower temp...

Just wondering how this one turned out? I've got a similar brew with OG 1.081 in the primary right now (total 3 week primary fermentation) and then going to rack to secondary with vanilla. Still deciding on vanilla beans or extract. Did you do anything to sanitize the extract e.g. boil it?? I'm...

So how did the blueberry porter turn out? I'm very interested as I'm about to embark on a similar recipe.

Question about fermentation here: So I made a starter for my Wyeast 1728 but kinda rushed things I think... Let the pack swell for 3 hrs, poured into a starter at roughly 65 degrees, let sit for roughly 45min and then pitched into fermenter wort at 60 degrees.... Where these temps a bit too...

Novice homebrewer here. I'm coming to the end of my second week in the primary for an oatmeal bavarian hefe and was wondering whats going to be the difference between leaving it in an addition week vs. racking it at the end of the second week???

I had a question for following up on aeration: I just did a partial boil a impatiently added and aerated (shook 2 gallons of wort in the fermenter) before it had properly cooled. I did not take the temp before doing this but I'm guessing it was somewhere around 120 F. How will this affect it???