Recent content by DeTech

Piece together a large diameter hose clamp to keep your tape from bending up and venting heat. Good luck.

FYI. RGC is almost always in tap at Deep Ellum in Brighton, ma, and avail in bottles at Gordon's on main st in Waltham.

I purchased a fresh char'd oak barrel 1/2 a year ago I ran 4 batches through it and drank my fair share of whiskey water before I let it meet my belgiums. It's all personal taste tho, just keep an eye on it, in that small of a barrel your oak favor can go pair shaped quickly. Sample daily.

I agree with the group think on this. Even your last shot just looks like bubble nucleation. You probably have an over carb'd beer. Post your recipe and dextrose measurements and we'll help fix the next batch. I've had much more success using cocoa nibs at the secondary rather than coco powder.

pH 3.8-4.2 is a good sweet spot. I'd shoot for 10 IBU's since you have an uncontrolled bug zoo.

Sealing it with sticky fresh wort sounds like a mess and a mold party invitation. Boiling water seems unnecessary, but it'll work. I seal between batches with water and sorbic acid, just bring your water down to a pH4.0 or there about. Your bugs remain happy above ~pH3, but everything else...

I just ginned up a recipe (leaning heavily on Mosher's) but souring the wort to pH4.0 using food grade lactic acid rather than sour malt. After a short boil I pitched Belle Saison dry yeast. Tastes great so far, I'll be back when it's in bottles.

I'm not an expert but* My gut says your 004 hydro reading seems questionable. Even if you contaminated your lacto culture with yeast (that was weird to type) that's a lot of chomping to accomplish in a few hours overnight. Let's assume your post-sour reading is bunk and back calculate from...

Sold. Thanks I'll let it be. It's so hard to leave it alone sometimes.

Another simple one I drew up.

My sourness level isn't where I want to be at 3mos. My sach finished at 1.016 which seems low after reading through the thread. Even tho it's early I'm going to add some MD. Since MD has an SG potential of 40pts, a 1/2 lb should get me from 1.016 to 1.020 in a 5 Gal batch. It's about time to...

I've got 3 batches out of this yeast at this point. I'm a fan, but it definitely finishes on the dry spicy side. Pick a sweet or floral note to bounce that off of and you can not fail.

It sounds like a bottle washer could drastically improve your life.

My swmbo makes some awesome spent grain cheese bread. Very similar recipe. Must be a google thing :-p

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