Recent content by skibikejunkie

Check out the thread in the yeast forum on freezing yeast. Short answer is that you can't just stick them in the freezer, unfortunately.

+1 I have a similar system, and this is more or less how I do it from a volume standpoint.

1) I don't think you're adding enough hops. 2) I don't think you're adding enough malt. Which is not to say you won't end up with a tasty beer. However, entering your recipe (revised) into Beer Alchemy and assuming 70% mash efficiency and 6 gallons post boil, I get a nice, hoppy pale ale (OG...

If people don't like my beer, I look at what they choose to drink instead. If it's Michelob Ultra or shots of Jaeger, I'm not offended. So far the correlation between people who like good craft beer and people who like my beer is 100%. Frankly, I want to hear negative feedback from people who...

I don't understand why people are always trying to build a better mousetrap for wort aeration. Unless you are using bottled O2, you are never going to get more than 8ppm oxygen into your wort. You can get to 8ppm by shaking the carboy for 40 seconds. http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_oxygenation.cfm

Some big beers may wear out the yeast a bit, in which case you can add some champagne yeast when bottling to help ensure proper carbonation. It doesn't take much, and it's easiest to add at the time of bottling, though I've heard of people doing it after the fact in the event that the bottles...

I've done protein rests on most of my batches, and while this seems to help with clarity, it doesn't seem to improve hop utilization.

Longtime lurker, occasional poster on the BN forum. Finally decided to post in response to an interesting thread on BIAB, since that's the method I've been using. In the process of moving to a mash/lauter tun and away from Brew In A Bag.

I've brewed 19 batches using BIAB so far. My experience has been that wort is cloudier than that resulting from a traditional lauter process. Clarity is never an issue in the finished beer provided I use whirlfloc and cold crash. The bigger issue is hop utilization. My half-baked hypothesis is...