Recent content by TimpanogosSlim

I could certainly taste the basmati in the beer i brewed with it. It was brown tho, so it included the husk. You have to cook it first to gelatinize the starches for conversion. I didn't have a grain mill at the time and would recommend running it through one to crack the grains first. Not...

A week or so back when I was in salt lake city I stopped by the original site of Epic Brewing and spent over $100 on a box of beers. And four of them were their new Horchata Cream Ale. https://www.epicbrewing.com/horchata-cream-ale As opposed to the horchata beer recipes I could find here...

I don't think the nutrient is really necessary, particularly if you used a starter instead of just pitching the yeast as-is from the packet. If you're worried, pitch another packet. But if fermentation kicked off and is running, my guess is it will probably be fine. You can even boil a...

*shrug* fine. MDA rather than methamphetamine. It was still an early volley in the war on drugs. As an aside, by the way, a couple years ago during a visit to seattle i wandered into an artisanal candy shop deep in the bowels of pike place market. All kinds of hand made sugary whatnots. An...

What, you mean eugenol?

The alleged carcinogenic nature of safrole was trumped up strictly because it's dead easy to make safrole into methamphetamine.

Yeah, i figured out malzbier with google - which found a page at the german beer institute, which didn't name any brands but stated that it is rarely exported. So thanks for some brand names and other terms for it. The gbi page stated that it is usually an ale yeast that is pitched when the...

It turns out that I vaguely know an older German fellow who's wife just gave birth to his first child. They tell me that he vaguely recalls that there was a beer he was given small drinks of as a small child to help him sleep. Almost no alcohol, and very sweet. He has no idea what it was...

Got my 1/4" FFL to Cornelius post adapter from CHI, works a treat. Recommended. I'm sure their 1/4" MPT adapter works just as well.

You're fine. As long as you are properly sanitizing everything there is very little risk of infection. And the fizziness is normal. And anyway, worst case scenario, in six months you are selling artisinal cider vinegar at the farmer's market. FG should be less than 1. From what my...

A step or two closer to my cornelius pin lock line cleaner. I've decided to use a never-used 1 gallon garden sprayer i already have and a 1/4"FFL x 19/32"-18 adapter from CHI-Company. And my cornelius pin-lock gas post that only has one pin hanging on. I'll be using 5-star LLC. The...

Cold crashing helps. But I was a n00b not so many months ago, and i got a lot better at racking over time. And with floaties in the beer, a filter bag over the end of the cane can really help. Just tryin' to give a n00b a few hints to a more rewarding bottling day.

Nah, just yeast settling out.

The exact units by style is less of an issue than it seems. Shoot for 2ish. When in doubt, try google, "brown ale co2 units" for example. As for filtering, try tying a hop sock or 1 gallon paint strainer bag over the end of the racking cane when you transfer to the bottling bucket.

I bought a 5lb aluminum co2 tank, full, hydro from august 2011, for $40. Slapped a regulator on it and shoved it in my lame kegerator.