Recent content by edufur

soooooo.... replace the flours with the spent grain? So basically 3 cups of spent grain?

I bet that if oak fibers were made into cloth or jewelry, it too would smell weird if it got wet or was manhandled by hippies. But oak chips having soaked in beer tastes wonderful.

This is a serious question about accent flavoring. Hemp stalks contain NO THC. They have no stoner value. So it isn't for any purpose other than possible accenting. Considering hops are a relative, didn't seem to crazy an idea. I bet plenty of stalks are easy to come by in washington or...

Has anyone considered roasting hemp stalks and placing them in the secondary? Almost like the concept of oak chips?

Actually, I had heard this somewhere as well... and the experiment reply is a good one. Why wouldn't I want to propagate a yeast that has adapted to survive my environment? Seems like the perfect / right thing to do.

So I just started all-grain. WOW... what a leap. Now I am thinking ahead for a yeast reclaim. I have done this in the past but my most recent one was a very slow start. I have a multi-part question: 1. I have read that one should only reclaim a few times. But why is this the case? When...