Recent content by xmcchillinx

Not the reply I was hoping for.. Could it really be that bad? I had no idea using a yeast out of style could produce such an awful beer.

I racked this off the yeast cake a week ago. I tried to save the yeast but there was so much twin it was.impossible, I lost a half gallon of beer with it as well. however the beer tastes much much better now and I can't wait to try is again when I bottle in a few weeks.. I will never contemplate...

I went with your suggestion, thank you. Looks like it'll be a great brew.

I've used wyeast oktoberfest to brew an oktoberfest and a Bock. I'm wanting to reuse it again, any suggestions??? I really would like to make a cream Ale using a lager yeast and I'm wondering if anyone has used this yeast before or one like it with a cream Ale. I know its not in the style but I...

I did the same search a while back, Kilkenny is hard to come by in Orlando and the only place to find it in in Disney and is outrageously priced. As for a recipe I stopped looking once I realized that I wouldn't be able to reproduce the head without the ability to nitrogenate the beer (Kilkenny...

Hey guys, I'm brewing a lager this weekend that calls for chocolate rye and my LHBS doesn't supply it. Any good substitutes? The recipe already has about 25% rye so I'm thinking I may just replace it with chocolate wheat, but this will darken the beer, but does anyone have any advise or...

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Thanks, I guess I was searching for reassurance.. Nobody wants to dump a batch but I've read that the alcohol taste is one that doesn't really mellow with time. And even though it's young, the taste was strong enough to make me consider dumping it.. (so you know it's quite strong)

...and yes I used a yeast starter, and the yeast was less than a month old.

Last Friday I brewed big IPA, somewhat malty, somewhat hoppy, somewhat fruity.. Kinda a Frankenstein beer. Everything went perfect, I hit my OG of 1092 ( I said it was a big beer, and today i took a gravity reading and i'm at 1025 (almost to my predicted FG of 1021), I dry hopped today and will...