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I was at my LHBS inquiring about kegs yesterday, and the guy told me the following: - Corny kegs are basically all used now; none have been manufactured in probably 15 years - With homebrewing becoming increasingly popular it's becoming harder to find corny kegs I thought that was...

I don't know where you heard this but it isn't true. You can refrigerate a properly carbonated beer for 1 hour or zero hours, whatever. The CO2 is not waiting for refrigeration before it will saturate the liquid.

My understanding is that a California Common is done just like an ale that happens to use lager yeast. The style originated with immigrants who were accustomed to making lagers but had no source of refrigeration.

This is my California Common; brewed it 8 days ago. There is weird snotty stuff floating at the top. I don't know if it's an infection or what, but I've never had this in a batch before. Maybe something to do with using lager yeast...? :eek: Any ideas? Thanks.

U Fleku in Prague is great. They serve a dark lager that I can still remember perfectly. Something you can and should drink all night long.

My hunch is that the fear of oxidation by gently stirring the beer or disturbing the surface by things like this is unfounded. How much oxygen could really get dissolved into a 5 gallon batch of beer from a little momentary surface splashing? In any event Bleme had a good point that it's going...

I brewed a saison four Saturday's ago tomorrow, and it's been in primary (6g better bottle) since then. I was hoping to bottle tomorrow but the blowoff is still bubbling every minute or so. So this morning I took a SG reading and it's 1.000! This is using Wyeast 3711 so I heard it makes a...

That's so funny. You should watch the Kids in the Hall sketch: the beard. It's on YouTube.

I love them too but I think they need a new name. It sounds funny to us but I don't think it'd be funny to an Irishman.

Isn't this also less preferable than a typical copper chiller because you will now be burdened with cleaning and sanitizing the *inside* of the copper tube that has had sticky wort run through it. With a normal chiller you only need to clean and sanitize the outside and you can accomplish that...

I had what i think would qualify as a bottle bomb (the neck of the bottle was found two feet from the rest of the bottle, though not much beer mess) in a batch of otherwise perfectly 100% consistently carbonated beers, I suspect due to a cracked bottle. So it's always possible.

Thanks for the reply. The beer is ______ by __________. Any additional help is greatly appreciated. I guess I'm showing my inexperience but how would I use Extra Special and Victory in an extract / steep recipe. I would have to choose a light base extract, and steep those specialty grains? Is...

I want to clone a beer (an english mild), but the brewery doesn't share their recipes. This is what I know about the ingredients: Hops: Galena (I'm guessing for bitterring) and Willamette (I'm guessing for aroma). Malts: they use Extra Special, and Victory. Then at least one other type, I...

Awesome. Did you do an extract recipe?

Thanks, I listened to the recording. Palmer doesn't say the effect on IBUs isn't there, merely that the mechanism is different than he described, and the magnitude of the effect may be lower than described in his book.

Do you not need to add vanilla to this? Where does the vanilla flavor come from?

I've read many people on these forums claim that you can (and should) add your extract late in the boil. Claimed advantages are that the resulting beer will be lighter in color and have less of that mysterious 'extract twang'. I'm reading John Palmer's How To Brew and according to the section...

Thanks. It bothers me that it seems a starter might be needed with White Labs yeast... they shouldn't sell the product in a quantity that is insufficient for pitching unless you do a starter. I have never done a starter with Wyeast and always had plenty of activity after 12 - 24 hours.

doh!

I am making the None More Black Vanilla Stout recipe (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/none-more-black-vanilla-stout-96969/) using White Labs WLP004 Irish Ale Yeast. This is my first time using White Labs yeast and I don't think I shook it hard enough. When I pitched it, some came out as a...