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Scenario: Brewed first Lager, Primary 4 days @50 degrees. Racked to Secondary and Lagered @35-38 degrees, didn't get around to trying to bottle it until now.... over 3 months later. Questions: do I need to add fresh yeast? If so does it have to be the same strain? Can I revive some of the...

I actually had this same problem recently with an imperial Stout. Only I left out a whole ounce of bittering hops during my 60 min hop addition. I didn't realize until I was about to pitch and I saw the unopened pack of EKG lying on the counter. I did something similar only added some DME as...

OG right now is 1.096. Grains: 3# Maris Otter 3.3# light LME 2.5lbs light DME 1# Amber DME 1# Flaked Oats 1# Melanoidin .5# Roasted Barley .5# Choc .5Black Patent .4# Blackstrap Molasses

I blanked during my hop additions for my Imperial Stout and left a whole ounce of EK Goldings out!:drunk: According to beersmith my IBUs will be only 34.7 when they need to be above fifty...my wort is cooling as I type and I am wondering if boiling the hops on the stove with a little dme would...

Was there a lot of cold break? If so that could lead to chill haze but I have always poured everything into the primary and tried to be careful when racking to bottling bucket or secondary. My beers have all been very clear which i attribute to whirlfloc/irish moss, a longer time in the primary...

I have always lived by that mantra. You wouldn't happen to be an infantryman would you?

Definitely not trying to keep me down or control me. (Also been there, done that, got the divorce and found a much better model :rockin: ) its mainly budgetary. Where the little disposable income should go. What's fair to everybody. As for my "testicles" and the be a man comments, I hope that...

This is a way of looking at it that I had not considered. No matter how hot SWMBO gets she can't maintain 155° for 60 min!

And the heavens have opened and Hoppity has spoken HIS words...:rockin:

Haha true.. but like beaksnbeer said.. i need to keep them. I have to at least try to get her on the board before I just tell her I'm doing this...We have three boys.. precious little if any extra money ever gets spent on ourselves. She is relatively supportive of my hobby, though she rolls her...

I have no idea what you mean ;)

This is just for fun... but who knows. Maybe we can come up with some winners and we all can make the leap to all-grain without having to sleep in the garage with our new setup!

The 2 gallon test recipe was: Maris Otter: 1lb Melanoidin: 1lb Black patent: .5lb Flaked oats: .5lb Amber DME: 1llb BlackStrap Molasses: .5 Dark brown sugar: .5 Willamette 1oz @ 60min EK Goldings 1oz@ 30min This was a leftovers experiment. I also have some chocolate malt to substitute?? I guess...

Beersmith says 120.0 for the M.O.

Thanks. Definitely want something drinkable... I made a delicious oatmeal stout recently based loosely on Yooper's Recipe and I had some leftover grains I was going to make a 2 gallon batch with. I then used the scale tool on beersmith to convert it to a 5 galoon to see what you guys thought...

Thanks a lot. Yeah I was planning on adding another hop addition or at least bumping one of them up to 2 oz. Just as a curiosity since I am a newb, what is the issue with having two much specialty? Do they not convert as well?

I'm in :rockin:

I wanted this one to be black as night with a thick mouthfeel and pack a wallop. I added some dark brown sugar and blackstrap molasses to dry it out a bit. Any suggestions? The guy at the LHBS gave me a weird look when i put all the ingredients up on the counter. :confused: I am pretty excited...

Yeah I brewed an Irish red with the same yeast(WLP004) albeit a bit lower gravity beer last night and there is definitely a blowoff tube in that bad boy now.

Clogged airlock while at work. Wife sent me the photos along with a few choice expletives. I cleaned it up and replaced with a blowoff tube and fermentation continued pretty vigorously. Everything looks and smells good as a new sanitized airlock has replaces the tubing now that thing have...