Recent content by BobtheBrewer85

Sorry for being a bit slow in posting my results, and I will say, my experimentation was not to expansive. Oxidizing beer was definitely the most successful. I filled a bottle about half way, shook it, and left it out on my kitchen counter top uncapped for 4 days. I then capped it and let it...

Thanks for the post. I think a lot of those look to be a bit outside of my means. I'm going to be bottling a brown ale today. I'm going to try to oxidize one just leaving it uncapped for a couple days. I'm also going to leave a bottle in the window for a week to try creating a like struck beer...

Hello there! I'm planning on taking the certified cicerone exam pretty soon, and while I've read all about off flavors in beer and their causes, I've hardly tasted any of them. I know there are off flavor kits out there that you can pay ridiculous sums of money for, and I'm not too inclined to...

Well, I went for it with just the smaxk pack yesterday, and they're bubbling away in the fermenter now. They were produced on 2/19 if I remember correctly though.

Hello! I'm off today and declaring it brew day. I've come up with my recipe for an IPA where I will have 3.25 gallons of 1.056 OG wort. According to the Mr. Malty pitching rate calculator, I should be pitching ~130 billion cells. If I make a started with a wyeast smack pack and pitch it 3-4...