Recent content by yurtbrewer

Aloe, when processed by boiling, reveals a very bitter taste often accompanied by stomach ache... But perhaps fermenting it made it less so

Ok, going to bottle carb this now and I don't have corn sugar. How much white sugar would I use? smells good! Can't wait to have a cold one!

By the way, is this the domestic Hallertau Dom or should I use Mt. Hood or Liberty instead to get the aroma of the German version?

Is it possible to try to add something like molasses to add body instead? Must be something else I can use

What is the function of it?

Has anyone ever tried substituting maltodextrine with something else? I don't have access to it and am wondering what I can use instead. Thanks!

Love the idea! I'm an organic farmer and I love to use things that are grown by me or locally grown. With GF brews, I'm resorting to brown rice and sorghum syrups from who knows where. I know sorghum grows around here, but the cost is so high compared to purchasing it from a HBS. Would love to...

When using brown rice syrup from a health food store do I need to add enzymes?

Thank you :) I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't buying overpriced "ginger beer plant" and really it was water kefir :) It's coming from gingerbeerplant.net

So I did a cold-process mead, 2 batches of 3 gallons each, one with wildflower honey and one with orange blossom honey, both raw. So I had 9lbs honey, 2.4 gallons water, 3 grams Fermaid K and 6 grams Lalvin 71b-1112. So there was no heating involved, didn't sanitize with a Campden, just...

No, I have not yet... I do not see it at Northern Brewer or my LHBS.. do you buy it at health food stores? Does it need added enzymes?

Right now Petco.com has a ton of aquarium heaters 40% off and free shipping until March 10th... I took advantage of this to get a few more for my fermentation closet :)

Hmmm interesting about the tapioca extract. Where can you find that?

OK so in this case, I have also made an orange blossom mead and I only used Fermaid K. I noticed that fermentation is prolonged and that it hasn't finished up in the secondary, where it's been for over a month. Should I have used DAP and would that have helped my fermentation finish out...

Hey gang, I am thinking of using a lot of Scott Mansfield's recipes for things like ginger beer, cider, etc. In his recipes, he always uses malt syrup when a beer-like recipe is being made. I am going to switch this out for white sorghum syrup 1:1. Also, he carbs his bottles with 7...