Recent content by ajm97210

Just thought I'd update.. 2 Days after pitching the lacto and the dregs, and keeping it at 95F, I took a gravity and pH reading. The gravity had dropped 4 points and the pH was at 4.7. My airlock was bubbling vigorously during those 2 days. After tasting my sample I don't taste much that is...

Awesome glad to hear it! That's my concern but it's a little late now. I know that Cascade tries to take a clean beer into their barrels so I'm hoping there's very trace amounts of yeast, and it was a 2015 bottle so hoping that helps as well. It had taken off over the last 36 hours. I'll...

So I brewed up a tripel style beer yesterday which I added L. Brevis and dregs from Cascade Brewing apricot to. I am aming to get it as close to the Cascade beer flavor as possible. I had toyed with several different ways of fermenting and after some reading and advice when with giving the...

I appreciate everyone's replies! I'm thinking it's the crush. I have a ThermaPen so it's pretty accurate. Mash temp could also be a slight issue. Quality of grain probably isn't the issue, I work at my LHBS and our grains are really fresh and I got the higher quality 2 row for the blonde but...

My boil off is high because of the amount of heat the Hellfire puts out. It's at about as low of a boil as I personally am comfortable with. In regards to the 6 row, I mention that because with large amounts of flaked you need extra enzymes which the 6 row provides for you.

I am batch sparging, I have done it in 2 and 3 batches. I mashed for 60min in the DIPA case and 90min in the Blonde case. I am milling at my LHBS so I don't have control over the crush but I could run it through a 2nd time if I wanted. As far as conversion goes, no I am not sure it's done...

So I have done a lot of reading on increasing efficiency and all that and while I understand that efficiency isn't everything when it comes to homebrewing, having a roughly 50% efficiency can be quite annoying. I am going to present my last 2 batches to you guys in hopes that someone can help me...

Yes indeed it is!

I just opened up a bottle last night and it turned out incredibly! The maple syrup priming worked wonderfully. It has a nice body, amazing flavor, and the right amount of hop. Perfect!

Yeah I tried the hydrometer sample and it was very very good, great flavor. I didn't end up going with White Labs, when I went to the local brewing shop they recommend I use a different yeast to make it slightly cheaper. It was still a low attenuating yeast... I can't remember the exact...

Just thought I'd update... I brewed this baby last night and it is going through a VERY active fermentation right now, can't wait to drink it when it's completely done

Awesome thanks so much for all the help! I plugged it back into the Brewers Friend App and got 31.44 IBU which should be good. Now I just need to get all the ingredients together!

How would I go about adding vanilla at the bottling phase? That kind of confuses me. Mix it in with the priming agent/maple syrup? And yeah unless I put in the wrong numbers into the Brewers Friend calculator that is what I got.

Here's what I've worked out with some of the suggestions Fermentables: 9.0lbs - Dry Malt Extract - Extra Light 1.0lbs - Brown Sugar 1.0lbs - Lactose 12oz - Victory (US) 6.0oz - Carapils 6.0oz - Roaster Barely (US) 6.0oz - Chocolate (US) 6.0oz - Midnight Wheat Malt (US) Hops: 1.0oz - Nugget...

Oh awesome thanks a ton. Working on updating the recipe again and I'll see what you guys think. @mdbrewer do you remember what kind of syrup you used? Was it one of the popular brands or a real maple syrup?