Recent content by tylerdmichaels

Hey All! I stumbled upon this thread while looking for a potential solution to an entirely different problem - having pressed apple juice that still had starch in it due to pressing unripe apples. I was looking for a way to convert the starches in the apple juice into sugars without the...

Hey everyone - I posted about two years back about doing a green-tea beer using a warm wort and vodka-infusion and thought I'd post an update: The beer turned out alright (fermented a bit too hot), but there was VERY little green-tea flavour to speak of. Almost none, in fact. Upon reflection...

Hey runs4beer, any chance of an update on this one? I'm about to brew my first batch with the WLP 665 and am trying to decide on whether to use a starter (to try and up the Sacc. cell count prior to pitching).

I'm about to do a Green-Tea Cream Ale, brewing tomorrow. I'll let you all know how it goes, but here is the recipe (Yes, I know - There is no corn in it. Also, I use 2-row instead of 6-row. Sorry to disappoint you, Cream Ale Puritans): 7lbs Canadian 2-row Pale Malt 2.5lbs Minute Rice...

I use Oxy-San. It was developed for the Milk Industry, and (apparently) it sanitizes within aprox. 10 seconds of contact. Also, it takes about 1tsp for 1L of H2O, and with 1L I am ALWAYS able to sanitize all of my equip (again - no immersion needed. Just fill bottles/carboy with 1L solution...

Hey everyone - This is many years late, but in case someone searches (as I once did) for info about oxy-san on google and comes across this, I thought I'd weigh in: Oxy-San seems to have been developed for the Milk industry, and is a mixture of two different chemicals that break down in...

Been using Oxysan for a while now... From what I can tell it was developed by the Dairy Products industry as a sanitizer that wouldn't affect milk. Here's a link to a company that claims to make it. Have had no problems so far! No rinse is great...