Recent content by tboyer

Zymurgy, Brew Your Own

Thanks, guys! Appreciate the suggestions, and maybe next time I'll have less cleaning up to do...

OK, here's one of those really stupid questions. I guess this should go in techniques; I don't really know. I've been brewing a long, long time. And the one thing that always causes me pain is making a yeast starter. Books make it easy. Just add 10% malt to your erlenmeyer flask, and...

Great. Bad attenuation is much better than horrible attenuation... :)

Aha! So 'dope slap' was the right answer! I had no idea a refractometer did not work with FG. That's the hint I needed. Thanks very much, everyone...

Me, either. That's what's confusing me. It ought to be undrinkable...

I'm a semi-serious brewer - all grain since 1990; dozen or so batches a year - but my one big failing has been recordkeeping. Yeah, I know I should, but I've always been lousy at it. So last year I turned over a new leaf. Got a Misco Palm Abbe refractometer, and started keeping detailed...