Hello everybody
Over the last few years, the quality of my homebrew has greatly increased. The two biggest factors were switching from extract to all grain, and swapping from bottling to kegging.
I have experimented with hop quantity over probably 40-60 six gallon batches of all grain, and...
I have thought endlessly about making a port mead, but I have never tried it. I have about 40# of very awesome honey on hand and I really wanted to give that project a try
My #1 tip is: Drink 100% of your beer in a timely manner. I have had way too many bottles go bad after 3-6 months, generally due to over carbonation from likely infection or wild yeast. The longer it sits the more chance it has to get ruined. So drink it up!! Especially when the beer is at the...
Some home-brew shops have 'Beginner Equipment Kits' for around $100-150. Also every home-brew shop I've ever seen carries recipe kits in little boxes for $25-45 depending on beer style. My suggestion would be to start with one of these beginner equipment kits, and one of these home-brew kits...
I often dry hop about 48 hours after pitching yeast, especially for juicy IPAs. There is a lot of debate going on around the 'bio-transformation' you get when adding hops during fermentation. I also lightly stir the hops a few times over the first day to make sure i'm getting the most out of...
Don't buy from Midwest/Northern Brewer. As others have said it is owned by AB InBev. I would suggest you find some local or online shop with awesome owners
I did this combo for my first all grain and it was great!
4.8% abv with 5oz of amarillo. I could have drank that beer all day.
Or a cream ale is a sort of smash beer. My recipe is Pilsen Malt + Liberty hops + corn and sucrose as adjuncts. That beer is very crisp and super crushable.
There...
Does that product remove head in the final beer? I looked it up and it looks pretty awesome
Edit: Never mind I found the answer to my question "FermCap S Foam Control does not affect the head on your finished beer. In fact, it can actually increase the head by retaining head-forming compounds...
A local brewery has a "Coffee Golden Ale" which is freaking awesome. I say definitely give it a try. I don't know how to keep the beer light colored though, but they manage to keep it nice and gold.
There is actually an interesting technique of scimming the krausen off the top of a fermenting beer which supposedly makes a cleaner flavor. I don't know much more than that about it though. So if you can skim a krausen I see no reason why you can't skim the foam you got. It may change the beer...
That looks like hop pellets to me. They sorta turn into big thin grassy particles after a few days in the beer. You say it happened after dry hopping I think this is extremely likely.
I drop hop many of my beers heavily. I often have some similar particles in the first few pours of my beer from...