Recent content by kmbell

It was 16 oz of cold brew in 3 gal or roughly 5%

What I did was a strong cold brew from home roasted beans. It could still be the old coffee flavor, but I'm still at a loss to explain why it went from funky coffee then three weeks later to pouring one perfectly topped great-tasting beer and then back to more funky coffee flavor with no foam.

Any idea why this would be more noticeable on this beer, a dark oatmeal stout, that wasn't present during my previous ones? I'll also try tightening my fittings, I had a similar weird carb issue that had to do with incomplete seals from not tightening the fittings enough

I only had the keg open to add beer and coffee initially and I purged the headspace

So I added coffee to my oatmeal stout and it's had this kind of sour off-flavor, I imagine from the acidity of the coffee. It's been like that since the week I kegged, which is when I first added the coffee. Came back from vacation and pulled a beer, great flavor, could taste the melding of...

Was originally just going to use a pinch of Mosaic at 30 and then do all late additions, went with Amarillo instead. I'll report back in a few weeks on how it has turned out

Was just wondering if anyone else had answered the same question. I have mine in the fridge at the moment and taped to the side of the fermenter with a sock to insulate it from the air temps. Set at 64.0 F for fermentation. Had it on 5 minute delay and just dialed it down from 2 to 1 degree...

Just brewed using the suggested combo with lots of late hopping: 30 min 1 oz Amarillo 10 min 1/2 oz Amarillo 1/2 oz Galaxy Whirlpool at 160 F post flame out 1/2 oz Amarillo 1/2 oz Galaxy Will be dry hopping with 1 oz Galaxy and 1/2 or 1 oz Mosaic Had to bottle the remainder of the keg so the...

Thanks, that's great feedback. Do you have a big difference between flameout and whirlpool as far as aroma? BeerSmith pegs it at 65 IBUs with obviously the majority of hops going in after 0 mins. Looking forward to trying this recipe and will report back with the results.

Just checked, Galaxy AA is 14.9%. Looking to get more of the hops aroma than the bitterness. Thanks to both of you, I think I'll add the first ounce of Amarillo at 30 mins -- I have a gumballhead clone recipe that I've used as a base before and it calls for a 30-min total boil so thirty for...

I'll be doing my second BIAB batch tomorrow of a hoppy wheat beer. I've done a similar recipe with all Amarillo and with all Mosaic. I currently have: ~1 oz leftover Mosaic whole hops 11.5% AA 2 oz Amarillo 7% AA 2 oz Galaxy My initial thought was to use Amarillo and Galaxy in a heavily...

Success! So it turns out the Mini Brew Bucket's faucet tube can be rotated nicely to get nearly all the beer from the fermenter as it nears the bottom. That, and not agitating the trub got me down to maybe less than 12 oz of waste apart from the yeast cake. I racked to my new 3-gal kegging...

Mission accomplished. After realizing that I had to move the freezer element I just installed the tap right in the middle.

In fact I was concerned about the same issue. When I got the fridge the wire was angled away from the cooling element but directly under it. So I moved the thermostat back to be next to the cooler. I could reattach it completely, but I'm getting a temperature controller in the mail soon and...

I'm in the process of assembling my kegerator/temperature control chamber so I'll cold crash before kegging. I imagine that will improve my yield.