Recent content by schuwa

Is there any advantage to boiling for 90 min when you are adding hops as 60? Will you get better carmelization with that volume? Asking in pure ignorance.

Thanks! My plan is to leave it in the secondary for a good 3-4 months, bottle maybe around late October, and then try the first bottle at 6 months post-brew-day, which would be right around Christmas / New Years. I realize it may need a year or so to age, but I figure one bottle at that...

From some reading I've done, and talking with the people at the LBS, there has been some suggestion that sometimes putting a second, different kind of yeast in the 2ndary will yield different flavors. Specifically, I was told that adding some Brett to the secondary is preferred to adding it to...

Not long. About 5 days. I'm not expecting autolysis now, but I was planning on keeping it in the secondary for about 2 months total before bottling it, and I've always heard anything over 1 month on a large amount of yeast sediment should be racked to avoid it.

So I made a first time attempt at adding a second yeast strain to the secondary just after I racked it for an Orval clone; it was racked about about week 3. While it appeared (I did not take gravity measurements) that after I racked it from primary to secondary to not be "visually" bubbling, I...

Hello All, A number of years ago I lived in Indianapolis and frequently the Brugge in Broad Ripple. I highly recommend you try it, if you have not. The had a tripel there one time that was sweeter and less phenolic, and I absolutely loved it. They've made their tripel time and time...

I have been brewing ales for years, but this is only my second attempt at a lager. I am doing a Kolsch, following a recipe from my local HBS. The recipe states to start in a primary at 68-ish degrees for 5-7 days, then rack into a secondary, cool to 50-55 degrees, and lager for 2-3 weeks...

I'll have to keep that in mind. TY! Normally I do, but with this one I did not. I used the Wyeast smack pack, though, but I realize it is still better to use a starter.

My basement usually is at 69 degrees, typically. Would that degree of temp make that much difference?

3 weeks in primary. In bottle for 3+ weeks right now.

Hello everyone. Long time reader, but but time poster. I have a question or 2 that I am hoping someone can help me answer. I just finished making a Belgian Witbeer, and used the Wyeast Wit strain. I realize this is supposed to be a "phenol" flavored yeast strain, but it is excessively...