Recent content by ascan

Its perfectly fine to freeze the bread. Wrap tightly in plastic, and to reheat bake at like 300 for 10 minutes (or until warmed through). I would not freeze dough, as it makes everything way more complicated since there is usually a ton of spent grain left for baking. I bake all of the bread I...

I hope he doesn't mean the Santa Cruz in northern CA, because our water is terrible. I would brew with straight SC water if someone paid me to. Well, I would, but remove any possibility it could be traced back to me.

Yeah, increasing the amount of flour is the way to go. My standard when using spent grains I haven't baked with before (after trying it standard, i adjust the flour and add adjuncts to compliment) is 3 cups whole wheat and 1 cup white. Perhaps a bit more white/water as dough consistency...

I've been using this recipe as my starting point for spent grain bread, but my only question/ponderer is about the spent grains. The first time I found there wasn't nearly enough dry flour to give the dough the right consistency after kneading (which was easily overcome and adjusted in future...

The problem is that iodophor and other iodine solutions are not the same. Iodine in iodophor has been bound to larger molecules so that it is more soluble in water, and a lot of the time people put tincture of iodine on wounds where the iodine hasn't been bound to larger molecules but...

A while back I stuck my hand into a bucket filled with iodophor treated water after sanitizing a few things, and there was some stinging on couple small wounds I had. A friend assures me that the pain wasn't caused by the iodophor, and that iodophor does not cause pain when applied to an open...

If you seriously think a layer of concrete is necessary, wouldn't it just be more advisable to trash the bottles before they fully carbonate? Also, have you ever had experiences that would lead you to believe such measures are necessary for safety? Not one of my over-primed popping bottles...

Having over-primed before, I would mostly worry about eye injury. The glass shards travel fairly far, but a lair of cardboard is sufficient to stop them.

On a similar note as AZ, was the reading prior to straining the wort of the hop particulates disintegrated from hop pellets? Did you also correct the hydrometer reading for temperature (since hydrometers are designed to give gravity readings at 59 degrees fahrenheit; in this case subtracting a...

Thanks for the validation and support. A friend is telling me that I worry more about my beer coming out than he worried for his wife's first pregnancy. I'm not sure if thats a good thing or bad thing yet.

I'm in the midst of fermenting a batch, sand I'm concerned about it being infected. The batch is an Irish stout. I didn't rack to a secondary fermenter. It is in it's second and a half week of fermentation ( i took a gravity reading at two weeks and it still had a bit to go to be in its final...