Recent content by frogger81

Yes! Hi Dave. Hi Mike. You've both been great. The US-05 I got from Mike made my Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone GREAT! I missed my calculations in Beersmith (overestimated trub loss and underestimated boil-off rate) so it came in as OG of 1.034 instead of 1.051. Came out at 4%abv instead of...

That's great, thanks!! So, when you create a grain bill, you generally use a variety of different grains, each of which I imagine would have different potential SGs. So, how do you work out the overall potential SG of your wort? Do you just add them together and make an average or something...

Sorry to bump this thread after such a long time. It seems to sum up efficiency succinctly. One question though; you explain the efficiency calculation by starting out with the premise that a pale 2-row would yield a gravity of 1.073 if you hit 100% efficiency. How did you reach this figure...

Hi Sweetcell, I'm an Aussie living in Qingdao, Shandong Province. Thanks for the welcome :) Yes, getting supplies is difficult. The funny thing is, I don't think getting equipment should be hard, because I'd say 90% of the stuff is manufactured here. Actually I may be wrong, because it's...

Hi! Thanks for the info. Yes, I've got Oktoberfest's page on Taobao and I've been slowly wrangling my way through the awkward e-commerce setup in China (a mixture of screw-ups from taobao/Alipay/BoC)... I do plan on getting some stuff from him. He used to sell hops, but unfortunately he seems...

Hi There, Through my research I've noticed a few people mention they are brewing beer in China. I've just started getting my kit together and doing the research. I'm working my way towards BIAB, because I live in an apartment and space is at a premium. I'm just trying to get a little...