Recent content by timdsmith72

My Brew Dawg

I don't decant. I siphon. I make a starter a few days in advance, take it off the stir plate a full 24 - 36 hours before I need it and stick it in the fridge. A few hours before I need it, I take it out of the fridge and siphon off all of the "beer" except for just enough to swirl it up good...

For some reason, all my friends seem to think Guinness is one of the strongest beers made. Few believe me when I tell them it's actually got a lower alcohol content than many, if not most beers you find at the pub.

Holy smokes this stuff is good. The bread yeast and the lalvin EC-1118 both finished/cleared up within a week or so of each other. The two batches were started mid-October. Tried samples of them both last weekend. In my opinion, I like the batch with Lalvin EC-1118 slightly better. Both...

Thanks. Dry I don't mind so much and hopefully the bitter will age out.

EdWort's Haus Ale while watching the Cubs vs. Dodgers.

My first one died, so here's version 2.0. Nothing fancy, but it works.

Blue eyes.

I don't use an airlock. Or even snap the bucket lid in place. I just rest the lid on top and stick a thermowell through the grommet. EDIT: I had to go to the LHBS yesterday because I wanted to make a couple of sample batches of mead in one gallon jugs and couldn't even find any of my airlocks.

Short answer, YES! Longer answer, This:

After reading about 50 pages of this thread, I couldn't resist putting this together. I put together 2 batches. One exactly as described in the first post. The second I substituted Lalvin EC-1118 for the bread yeast. I just wanted to see the difference. I put the yeast in about an hour and...

How did you mix in the priming sugar before bottling?

Yea. Too warm will do it too.

I had this same issue with batch brewing. This is gonna sound weird, but try keeping your SCOBY uuuuhhh "nicely trimmed"? What I mean is, once he gets big enough to cover the entire width of the vessel, he gets really thick really fast. Take him out, trim him back down to "normal" size...

If you promise not to tell anyone, I've made this with both pilsner and two row. I've even made it splitting it 50/50. {To me} I can't tell enough of a difference for it to matter. It was amazing all three ways. :mug: