Recent content by Bob

I agree.

Please do! :mug:

I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D I've never tried it on nitro, because I've never played with nitro. I'm sure it couldn't hurt anything. Might call it "Bobbingtons" in that case. ;) Cheers! :mug: Bob

I look forward to it! :mug:

Yeah, sounds like feed barley. The overwhelming majority of 6-row is unmalted animal feed. I'd thank him, hand him a beer, and also hand him the bucket back. :-)

I disagree. Once you add a significant proportion of specialty grains/malts, the character of whatever pale malt you choose is completely overwhelmed. Moreover, plenty of world-class Mild ales are brewed without expensive floor-malted Maris Otter.

Maris Otter will make a fine Hefeweizen, as I can attest from personal experience, having brewed at least 400bbl of the stuff. ;-) I've never needed rice hulls with a 50/50 mix of pale and wheat malts, but if it'll stop you worrying, add a fistful or two. Use wheat malt, not torrefied wheat...

I really wouldn't bother doing any of that. I'd just drop it. Without the dark crystal it will still be a fine beer. Cheers! Bob

None I can foresee. Brewers maize is often used by British breweries in Bitter. Cheers! Bob

In my experience, that's an excessive amount of 120L crystal. That stuff is potent. When used in excess the flavor is very unpleasant. Trust me; I speak from experience. :D In a beer like this I'd not exceed 4 ounces of 120L. I would add 8 ounces of 60L crystal to provide some caramel...

Agreed. Brew the mild as intended. Giving her what she wants is very unlikely with that grist. Brew her a hoppy beer later.

Classic Dry Irish Stout is dead simple: Grain bill: 70% 2-row 20% flaked barley 10% roasted barley Seek an OG of 1.040 to 1.045. The beer must finish dry. Avoid higher mash temperatures. Keeping in mind that a large proportion of the bitterness of DIS is from the roasted barley...

I'd FWH with Willamette to get ~45 IBU then add nothing more until the ferment is complete. Then I'd dry-hop the bejeebus out of it with as much EKG as I can stomach (and that, friends, is a considerable amount!). In fact, I just brewed 4bbl of English IPA in just that manner a few weeks ago...

Good, you started a new thread. ;) Like we told you in the other thread, get a sack of Pale Ale malt and experiment with modifying that rather than buying 25kg of specialty grains you won't even use. Stick with the "aroma" hops. Perle is a fabulous dual-purpose hops variety. Yeast is going to...

Congratulations! :D