Recent content by evanos

GTG, Whereabouts are you collecting? I'll be collecting this weekend as well (both mesquite and carob that grows at the UofA). I'm just not 100% sure where to collect. I was thinking about collecting the velveteen mesquites along I-10 (and giving them a good wash before processing) because...

Oh, I should mention: the gentleman that is taking care of my hops for me is an old hort guy from the UofA that did field trials of hops up in Phoenix (yeah, IN Phoenix before urban sprawl). The trials only lasted a couple years, so they never got full results because the funding got pulled...

My hops over-wintered nicely into the 2011 season, and now I've lost track of them. A friend offered to take care of them for now and I haven't seen them, lol. But when I did see them back in June 2011, they were really stout, healthy looking plants. I'll have to get a hold of the guy I'm...

Hey HBTers! It's been a long time since I've been on here. School has been pretty crazay. Anywho, I was wondering if someone was to offer basic yeast lab services, what kind of goods and services would you expect? I've finally gotten some basic equipment and wouldn't mind culture yeast...

Hey HBTer, In a moment of frusteration here. I just bought a sulfiter and bottle tree, but the sulfiter isn't working. When assembled and pumped, liquid flows back out from underneath the base as if the one way valve isn't working. Maybe I'm missing something here (and I hope I am, I need...

I guess my understanding of going to secondary was more an issue of minimizing the amount of yeast that ends up getting into the bottle (or keg) when filtering isn't possible, not just for the purpose of preventing autolysis.

What are you talking about? EDIT: Sorry, I don't mean to sound like a ******, but I've never heard this. I'm interested to hear what you mean.

Well, originally my idea with pitching twice was because I've got a bad habit of leaving beers in secondary long enough as to hinder carbonation, so I thought it'd be good to repitch with a clean yeast for bottle conditioning. Also, I know some breweries (ie, Bridgeport) inoc and bottle...

So, I've just brewed with WLP029 for the first time, and I'm noticing that it has amazing flocculation capability. So, here's what I'm thinking, and here's what I'm wondering. I'm thinking, flocculation probably has to do with certain glycoproteins on the yeast cell membrane (that's what I...

Okay, here's the article from Zymurgy my prof sent me. Thanks to Jaellis for converting to jpeg.

I'll second what he said about boiling the pods. My only experience working with the pods and making the molasses involved boiling the pods and it smelled like oats and molasses mixed with alfalfa hay. Not too pleasant.

Yeah, he sent me an article in Zymurgy from 2002. I'm not sure how to post a .pdf file and I googled the article and couldn't find it online. It's titled "Sower 2002 - Homebrewing Indigenous Beverages of the Southwest - Zymurgy". If you could tell me how to post a .pdf or find a link to it...

Yeah, they're clusters of little flowers.

It's gonna be a good year for mesquite pods this year. The hard freeze seems to have shocked the trees into putting on loads and loads of catkins. Gonna keep my eyes open for good spots to pick.

Yeah, if I were to be putting together my own ingredients, I'd be more inclined to consider the gravity's effect on hop utilization. But, this was a kit put together by the brewshop, and so I can't change the boil format and change the amount of hops I'm gonna get with the kit. Buttt, I...