Recent content by Skyforger

Thank you! It's a bit of a nuisance but once I have a yeast culture going it'll be good. Wasn't able to find Fermaid K or bulk orange blossom honey locally today, I'm trying to figure out if I should go for broke and get a 60lb bucket of honey at lower per-pound cost or if that would be a tad...

Thank you for all the time you put into answering questions Bray! I haven't the time right now to read the entire thread, so I'm sorry if this is redundant, but a gluten allergy makes me unable to use WYeast starters directly. Is there any good solution for this we've found, or is it best to...

"As far as the millet and rice malts. Are they similar to regular all grain amounts as far as efficiency and amount of pounds I should plan on using?" Similar, though not quite the same. We're still actively experimenting, but something like 80% of the efficiency you'd get with barley seems to...

MarshmallowBlue, Obviously I'm not your doctor. So don't take this as medical advice. I've looked into gluten sensitivities/allergies/celiac sprue a lot since I've developed issues with gluten. We don't really know all that much about how it all works yet. Blood tests are a great initial...

scubahound Well yes, lack of demand feeds into lack of experience. But I take your meaning, this might be a perfectly good base grain, there just isn't demand for specialty oat malts out there. Yet.

Yup, I've done a few myself! I'm just saying that making a good SMASH is an easily fallible prospect - and that if it does fail, it would tend to be on the axis of having too little flavor. With a recipe as novel as all-oat malt beer, that prospect looms large. So one of the first things...

Nice! Thanks for the link and the (ongoing) experiment scubahound! I've wanted to make an all-oat malt beer since my issues with barley beer became clear, but the cross-contamination inevitable from a malthouse that also makes barley malt always held me back. I wonder how much the reported...

You could check some recipe threads where they used millet as the base to see if other people reported FG; that might give you some idea what you can expect. A lot of people here use enzymes in the mash to help things along though, so you might get different results without them. Like I said...

I don't think this is a loaded question. The attenuation of beers can differ substantially based upon mash temperatures and base ingredients. There are a variety of compounds that can increase the gravity of a wort/beer that are nonetheless unfermentable. That said, I can't give you a direct...

FWIW, the enzymes you use will change the properties of the finished beer quite a bit. So that's a variable to take into account. If you use a combo of alpha and beta amylase you'll get a different FG than just using alpha amylase. My favorite way to do experiments is with Nottingham yeast...

My. We've had pretty big temps swing here too this winter, but I agree that may be a bit much to deal with. A water bath helps, but there are limits. Even a fairly stable first week would be fine. A slightly unstable week and you need to move stuff around a few times, but it's manageable...

I think it will! :drunk: Maybe try rehydrating the yeast this time. It's usually not necessary, but it's not hard and does help yeast viability considerably. If it doesn't go give a shout-out, cause then there's something weird going on and we'll have to figure out what.

Ghetto lagering just means you ferment the beer in a place that has a cool enough ambient temp to ferment at lager temps - about 48* or so is ideal, but somewhat higher is also fine. For about 6-9 months of the year where I am, it's possible to find places with appropriate stable cool temps...

Alright! I'd go ahead and pitch more yeast. Also add some yeast nutrient and aerate the beer somewhat. Give it the best chance possible of restarting. Maybe there was something wrong with the original packet.

Are you sure the hydrometer reading was 2.0 and not, say, 1.200? Or 1.020? Not trying to imply you're being less than rigorous or anything, but most hydrometers don't go even close to that high. And some of them have multiple scales on them; it wouldn't be unreasonable to believe that your...