I'm trying to plan a kickstart party in a month or so. Any advice on how to get the real beer geeks to come out?
My plan is to have an afternoon/evening event to sell pint glasses with my custom printed logo for $10 and have an all-you-can-drink beer sampling. I ordered the pint glasses...
Here we are. I mashed at 158. I've got an OG of 1.061. I'm debating between yeasts still.
I was going to use S-33, but when I got the primer going it smelled rotten.
I pitched WLP028 and we'll see where that gets me. What would happen with a different yeast?
I've still got
S-04
S-05
Windsor...
http://www.brew-monkey.com/recipes/html/kiltlifter.htm
So my plan was to make an 80 shilling by cutting the ingredients for that kilt lifter in half. I kept the 1/2 pound of smoked because why not.
You were right on with the malt bomb idea. I was thinking mash high to keep it thick and sweet...
I went to my local home brew shop to hang out and pet their cat. I got itchy for another brand new recipe so I started to put together the grains. Since it is August, Basement Brewhaus has very slim pickings and they are only open for a few hours, once a week.
I had to substitute almost every...
Well darn. I got swindled by a piece of plastic and some bubbles. Oh well.
It took almost an hour to get the whole kit n kaboodle up to temp.
Thanks Pommy, that makes sense. I'm ok with that though, I like a lot of bitter bite. There will be a 2 oz. dry hop when it goes into secondary, so...
I started a RyePA recipe yesterday. I waited until this evening for the wort to cool down. I noticed my air lock bubbling once every 20 seconds or so. So instead of pitching yeast, I put my whole sealed fermenter into my brew kettle. I set it up like a double boiler with some wooden spoons...