Recent content by Ettels4

I would use Magnum to bitter @60 to 70-80 IBU. Then Do a 165F hop steep for 30 min with equal parts Amarillo and Citra and half as much Mosaic. So a ratio of 2:2:1. Dry hop generously with the same ratio of the three. This is a DIPA so I would use at least 6oz in the hop steep and 6oz again dry...

I realize this was months ago but its a good thing you chose the Red Eye beer. The Minocqua brew pub's beer sucks at best and is sometimes undrinkable. I had a sampler glass of their Vanilla Cream Ale there just so i could fully experience just how bad it could be. Seriously... Vanilla Cream...

Damn, thats too bad. I was hoping this would have worked out. When I finally get around to making this I am probably going to go with WLP575. Seems like a beer like this is going to take a few batches to get even close. You need spicing that will be similar and a yeast that will be similar and...

The hops and yeast info both came from "Brew Like a Monk" by Stan Hieronymus. Also of note from that book, primary ferment is @75F for a week and then its secondaried for a month @32F. The only adjunct is sucrose (table sugar). IBUs are 20. OG is 1.081. "...includes a solid dose of unspecified...

There will be no bottle bomb if there are no more sugars fermentable by the bottling yeast. Same as any home-brew bottled with various fermentables. A lager yeast would ferment all it could at lower temperatures.

But if they do bottle with a lager yeast for bottle refermentation they'd be doing it well under 70F. I'll be watching to see how things turn out. I've been working on the recipe for some time now and have a grain bill and spicing that I will use for the first iteration. The yeast is the...

I am not arguing that you do not have the correct primary yeast. I hope you have the right yeast because I'd like to try it someday but I have seen nothing to convince me that his is indeed the primary yeast. BTW it's apparently not too expensive to keep two yeasts going in the same brewery...

According to Brew Like a Monk, Karmeliet is fermented with 2 yeasts. Wether or not that is 2 yeasts for the primary fermentation or one for primary and a second for re-fermentation in the bottle, I do not know. For those of you culturing this from the bottle, how do you know you aren't just...

Sure, could be the style. But still it lets me down every time. And there are few styles I don't like one or another example of. Perhaps its not just me... or there would be more versions of the style. Dunno.

Guiness. Remains the most overrated overhyped beer I know. Every twentysomething with the faintest hint of irish blood in him or a cousin that went to notre dame for a semester or who hangs out at the "I-whish" bar has to wax poetic over and over about this one. Every once in a great while I try...

Yeah funny... I posted (above) that I was consistently getting 83-85% with N. Brewer's standard crush... and then I went to brew Jamil's West Coast Blaster yesterday. When I looked at my grains they just looked less crushed than usual with less flour in the bags too. Lo and behold I got 74%...

I am consistently getting 83-85% eff. with BIAB using Northern Brewer's standard crush. My setup is a 44q. Bayou Classic w/ the strainer basket and a 5 gallon paint strainer bag. I don't sparge but I do mashout at 170 for 10 min. and give a firm squeeze by pushing down w/ a pot lid on top of the...

Tried this one again tonight and it is improving for sure. Feels thicker, tastes more roasty and strangely even looks a touch darker. I like where this is going. Thanks for the info on the P.B. that sounds interesting to say the least. This one would probably be good. Another (I have not yet...

Probably work as good as any. It's fairly light as porter goes. I bottled mine on 7/11 and tried one 10 days later. It carbed up but the flavor did not wow me. However I am expecting this to get much better with some time on the shelf as others have experienced. Biermuncher's Orange Kolsch...

Wow still down. It has come back in fits and spurts but has been mostly down. During a brief moment when it came back I noticed the 14 items that were meticulously chosen and added to my cart were gone. They definitely lost some significant sales from this.