Recent content by MrBinsky

Anybody try brewing the FW recipe yet? I'm thinking of doing it in the next few months? Edit: I threw together a recipe: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GCbPm2R2aw810C3HgR0Vky0lT6_ZQltLeJcTcYnjXhs/edit?usp=sharing IBUs are calculated with Tinseth. Based on personal experience with my...

In all honesty, this has made me realize, that while it is cool to use starsan for another purpose, there really isn't any excuse for why I continue to use it, rather than just buying some acid. I suppose it is laziness. But as I've said, I guess I've just never gotten around to buying acid for...

I can see why people have a problem with the idea of using it directly in their wort, but as I've said, when you use starsan to sanitize equipment without rinsing, you are going to end up getting more starsan in your finished product than this does. Especially if you are rinsing your 12oz...

No need to be condescending. The RO water may have very little buffering capacity but it still has some. It isn't distilled, after all. On my next batch I'll forgo the starsan and measure the ph of the water above the grainbed throughout the sparge process. If it doesn't change, great. You're...

I honestly think the suggested amount is waaaaay overkill, but I have very alkaline water, so I just use the suggested amount. The stuff is cheap and I'd rather be safe. But I'm sure the amount you've been using is fine.

Yes I read those posts before posting. I'm not talking about making major adjustments with super alkaline water. I'm talking about using RO water and a negligible amount of foodsafe, no-rinse sanitizer. (As I've said, most people get more in their finished beer through normal sanitizing...

For anybody who is really freaked out by this, take a few things into consideration: We are talking about 1 or 2 tiny drops in 5 gallons of water and half of that doesn't even ever make it out of the mash tun. If you have a ph meter and are skeptical about this, take a gallon of RO and put in...

I know FW has a pretty sizable lab and I'd imagine they would actually measure alcohol content rather than just calculate it. I know skibb said that he has experience with barrels increasing alcohol, but is I possible that a barrel could somehow decrease alcohol? I'm just trying to make sense of...

I use RO water, so yes the alkalinity is very low. Just a question, if you don't want sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate anywhere near your beer, then do you not use starsan?

The reasoning for starsan is that it is very cheap. Other acids are much more expensive. We looked into using other acids, but we already have starsan and since it doesn't do anything to the flavor, we just never got around to buying more acid which we don't need. We only use one or two very...

+1 on the magnum for the 60min addition. Maybe just use .5oz of magum though. I think this recipe looks really tasty. Personally, I would use 10L Munich and bump the C40 up to a pound of C60. Or if not C60, just a pound of C40. Also, the carapils is a bit high for my personal preference. I would...

I did a search for this and didn't come up with any threads, so I thought I'd post it. For the better part of the last year, my buddy and I have been using starsan to drop the ph of our sparge water. I know this sounds weird, but hear me out. The reasoning is that when collecting wort, you...

That's a very interesting point. I have a bottle of 2015 in front of me. From the label, OG and FG are 32.74 and 10.16 in Plato. That gives us an OG and FG of approximately 1.145 and 1.041 in SG. This is a bit of a discrepancy since this should give us an ABV of 16.44%. (Using the alternate...

I'm working on piecing together a recipe. I recently heard in an interview with Matt B. (http://thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/1041) that they mash very thick with this beer. So thick, that they have to manually stir it. That shouldn't affect taste too much, and it's really just them pushing their...

If you're just brewing today then you should have a few days until you need to put in the limeade, so I'd try to find it. If not, just look at the ingredients list on the limeade concentrate to see if there are any preservatives. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew