Recent content by Irisheyes

Didn't know the gravity could ever really hit that low. 1.001? That's practically water. I've heard of super low gravity being an indication of infection but who knows. Ha Ha - I'm surprised you could take an accurate reading with all that foam in your sample jar. Sure if the foamy beer tastes...

Glad to hear your wit turned out nice. Is it citrussy like hoegaarden or a bit more mellow? I think my malty beer is down to a hop issue. I'm forced to use a really sh*t electric stove for my boils which won't boil three gallons unless I wrap the pot in three handtowels and leave the lid mostly...

Hey Gats. Thanks for the advice. In the second batch of wit I brewed more recently I upped the hops considerably, added one third of the extract at the start and added two thirds with fifteen min remaining, like you did with your brew. It turned out less malty than the first batch. Still a bit...

Hey. I also do partial boils and use beer alchemy. How accurately would you say hops utilization is portrayed by the figures shown in your post, given your own experimentation? Which formula do you think is most accurate at predicting utilization in a partial boil (if any?)? I'm planning my...

Right so it's been in the bottle a week now. Seems to be carbed fine but still tasting sweet as hell. It may mellow out some more but I think it's definitely too sweet (or at least a perceived sweetness - don't think that there's much sugar left). Maybe it's underhopped? Thought I was on the...

Yeah no bother - head on over if you don't mind a bit of treacley wit. Course you could always just drink the Guinness . . .

Ha yeah well I kind of jumped the gun and bought the ingredients for a second very similar batch what with the first tasting coming out so nice. Hence I was properly headwrecked when it turned so treacley because I thought I'd thrown good money after bad. In any case hopefully the gamble pays...

Cool so you think it'll just mellow out in the bottle? I was sickened that it was tasting so funky. My girlfriend loves wit beer but she was completely disgusted by the taste of it. She tasted it without telling me before I took the recent gravity reading and was nearly going to throw it out! I...

Hey Guys. I recently brewed a simple wit from extract. Here's the recipe. I'm from Ireland and so have used metric recipe measurements - but you hopefully get the general idea 2 kg. Dry Wheat Spraymalt 1 kg Light Spraymalt 21 g. Hallertau Hersbucker boiled 60 min. 16 g. Saaz boiled 15 min...

Hey Guys. I recently brewed a simple wit from extract. Here's the recipe. I'm from Ireland and so have used metric recipe measurements - but you hopefully get the general idea 2 kg. Dry Wheat Spraymalt 1 kg Light Spraymalt 21 g. Hallertau Hersbucker boiled 60 min. 16 g. Saaz boiled 15...

Never had Youngs beer. Is it good? Was given the yeast by someone who'd never tried it and thought I'd give it a go. It's either that or Coopers Yeast and I've had variable results with that to date

Hi Guys. Anyone have any experience with this yeast? good/bad?