Search results

Greetings Collective, I made an oatmeal/milk stout (7% and 7% of the grain bill) with OG of 1.084 post addition of the lactose. It's been in the fermenter since August 23rd and actively fermented for over a week. I think the FG is 1.034 with serial readings over the last 4 days. I don't think...

Well, I made a goof. I brewed a milk stout with an OG of 1.060 made with 8% rolled oats. I goofed because I took the OG before I added 8% lactose to the whirlpool and didn't check the gravity after that. The wort was transferred over to the fermenter and fermented with 34/70. Post 5 days of...

I'm rather skeptical of my hydrometer's claims of my final gravity. I made an oatmeal stout that should have completed fermentation several days ago. I ramped up the oatmeal to over 16% of the grain bill. I just used gelantinized oatmeal as well as a 90 minutes mash routine until the iodine test...

Greetings collective, I've made a five gallon batch of mead with the addition of blueberries post primary fermentation. In about two more weeks I'll be packaging this up and allowing it to rest for at least six months. One thing I'd like to try is sweetening up with another dose of honey and...

Should I expect a full starch conversion with a hefeweizen of ratio of 2:1 wheat over pale malt? Mash temps 154f I'm having a heck of a time over here and always do. The wheat is malted.

[/URL][/IMG] [/URL][/IMG] [/URL][/IMG] [/URL][/IMG]

Of all the things I need is a keg washer and filler. But you know the commercial ones are between $5,000 and up. I, like most people trying to break out, are worried about money and that kind of expense I know can be avoided at the cost of man hours. I've looked around the net and found videos...

I've been having issues with my loose leaf hops not completely allowing my unfermented beer to drain through the false bottom of the boil kettle. I like using whole hops because of the benefit of collecting a portion of the hot break going onto the wort chiller and fermenter. It filters out some...

Greeting... I'm still new to winemaking and I have two packs of dry yeast from Lalvin that expired last November. I have a erlenmeyer flask and a stir plate to see if I can step up the old yeast and have a better wine made. I just don't know how to go about it. Does anyone have any experience...

Please let me start off my saying I love wheat beer and I can only aspire to be as good as the Bavarian wheat beer greats. That being said I've had consistent problems with my starch conversion. What have you guy experienced with conversion of wheat beers? This last go around I was 70/30 wheat...

I'm going back down uncharted territory here with the hopes that one of us has used powdered ginger vs fresh root. This is the design I'll use. Ten Gallons 11 lbs White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) 4 lbs Munich Malt - 10L...

I've got several half barrels with hops going back at least ten years. Last year it occurred to me that I should dig them out of the container, put in some good fresh soil and re plant some of the rhizomes. I'm sure by now the whole barrel is just packed full of root. My question is, does...

I'm going to give it a go with: Ten Gallon batch 10# pale malt 3# pilsner malt 3# Special B 3# Belgian white wheat 1 oz Saaz in the boil Wyeast lambic blend 1.35l 5# cranberries into the secondary fermenter with one oz of oak chips. The OG should be about 1.052 or so. Has anyone...

Today was one of those perfect brew days. You know the kind I'm talking about. The yeast bank produced a health yeast starter, the strike water was spot on at 152*f after the grains were added, the starch conversion was right on time at 55 minutes, the OG settled in right on target of 1.052 and...

I had a very difficult time with starch conversion yesterday and ended up boiling the wort without a 100% conversion. I'm not sure where the problem fell, but I kind of want to consider the French Pilsner malt I used. I can't imagine that it didn't have enough diastatic power to convert in this...

I want to try a bit of an experiment with a pretty good APA recipe I have, and that's by added 7% black patent malt to the grain bill just for the effect of making the beer black. I know 7% black patent malt is pushing the upper limits of it use, but I'm wondering if 40 IBUs would do a good...

It was wierd. At the end of fermentation I noticed that the fermenter somehow developed negative pressure. I use a 15.5 gallon keg with a #11 rubber stopper and vodka in the airlock. I thought maybe it was temperature changes, but since there is only 11 gallons in the fermenter and the...

Here's one I put together to see how it might come out. I'm always apprehensive with new beer designs, but this one especially because I want to add honey to the fermentation. Before I've added it to the boil and most all the honey flavor was gone afterwards, so this time I'll try to...

Recipe: Dragon's Milk Style: Sweet Stout TYPE: All Grain Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Boil Size: 13.44 gal Post Boil Volume: 10.44 gal Batch Size (fermenter): 10.00 gal Bottling Volume: 9.25 gal Estimated OG: 1.108 SG Estimated Color: 46.3 SRM Estimated IBU...

That's what I'm considering with an up coming IPA with this recipe I designed. I like to finish most all my beers with saaz because it's just a happy hop to me. It smells nice. So I was considering adding half as the FWH and adding the rest of the saaz at the final 5-10 minutes. Any thoughts...