Recent content by blitz77

well we brewed up our first lager the other night, unfortunately we were also kegging 3 other beers and i spaced getting an OG reading. beer is a maibock pitched with a 1.2l starter (stirplate) consisting of 3 packs of white labs 8336 and went with 1gm dme to 10ml water ratio. because of the...

right on thanks so much! new to home brew and first starter so thanks for the tips. definitely like to save money when i can too :D

Thanks for the reply This is what I have thus far at about 23 hours also wasnt sure if i should turn off the stirplate at this point or let it keep running until i throw it in the fridge.

so i am getting ready to do my first lager today (maibock) and i have also done my first yeast starter. my starter consisted of 3 packs of wlp833 and i went with 1gm dme to every 10ml of water making up a 1320ml starter using a 2000ml flask, a stirplate and using tin foil on top, not an...

Ok. Thanks, thats all I needed to hear. If it doesn't take a big turn for the better I will count it as a loss and consider it a lesson learned. That whirlpool idea seems pretty slick but I notice that all the grain and what not settles to the center which happens to be where my pickup for the...

thank you all for all the replies! i do have fermometers on all of the carboys and just ordered one of the thermowells as well. also i have a stirplate and everything else ordered to start doing yeast starters for now on, a inkbird ltc-308 thermostat which i will be using to make a ferment...

No temp control but temp stayed between 64-70 through primary and secondary. i am trying to pin point the fould tase but am having a hard time doing so. closest i can come up with is acetaldehyde but not sure if a am right there

Here is a pic of setup and how they turned out.

i am snapping a couple pics to show my set up and a pic of the beer in glasses, i didnt take a pic when they were in carboys but you can definitely still tell the dif in the glasses. the first time we had this taste was in an extract (belgium blonde) and this was an all grain 10 gallon batch...

usually when we get done with a primary we take and let the carboy sit in oxyclean overnight to help get off the nastaies then next day we take a carboy brush and scrub whatever nasties are left over, rinse it out and put on shelf until we are going to use again. immediatly prior to using again...

hello, i am new to the forums and semi new to home brewing (about 6 batches in) and had some questions about bad tasting and smelling beer. 1st bad one we made a few weeks ago (actually brewed 3 different beers that day) 2 turned out fine and one came out with an AWFUL taste and smell. we ruled...