Recent content by BPal75

I would think racking on top of flavoring would have mixed it up well enough but maybe some got stuck in the dip tube. My only other guess was you accidentally used sweetened coconut like morbster said. I assume you tasted your hydro samples before kegging so if those didn't taste overly...

My best guess is that because you had almost 40% adjunct in your mini mash it didn't properly convert with the 2 row being your only source of diastatic power. You would probably need 6 row base malt in that situation. Your mini mash needs at least 30 - 60 lintner DP to convert properly. If...

So I have a question that's been nagging at me for a while and I haven't been able to find any answers in my searches. When calculating mash and sparge water volumes to hit pre-boil gravity, at what temperature are these volumes? For instance I know that if I want to hit 5 gallons post-boil...

I have a new all grain setup where I'm using a pump and silicone hoses for the first time to move water/wort through my kettles. My question is how those of you with a similar setup clean your equipment after brew day? I filled my kettles with water and oxyclean and heated the water to about...

It will make your beer drier and up your ABV. No reason you can't do it. Make sure you pitch enough yeast and consider adding yeast nutrient to keep them happy. Consider adding the honey to the fermenter if you want more honey character. If you're concerned about possible infection you can...

Love the idea of trading homebrews and then being able to get feedback from other avid beer drinkers. In my view the best part of competitions is getting feedback so that feature is great.

I'm planning to try a peanut butter dunkelweizen as a nod to Elvis' favorite sandwiches. I've never used the powdered peanut butter before though but I know that's what most people recommend so as to avoid the oils. For those of you with experience with this stuff, how much should I add to a 5...

This recipe looks like a great start. Awesome that they are so open about sharing with homebrewers. A few tweaks I might recommend based on their website: it says they use rye as a specialty malt, so I would definitely include some nominal percentage of rye to the grist. They also list Northern...

Looks tasty! Were it me, I would probably mash a little lower but only because I prefer a drier hop forward beer and you have 1lb of caramel in there (not that I think that's too high for your grain bill). 152 isn't too high though and I'm sure it'll be great at that temp as well. Good luck!

Does anyone know if you can use the breweasy adapter kit with MegaPot 1.2s? I really like the idea and compact size of the breweasy system, but I already have MegaPots and don't want to have to go out and buy new Blichmann kettles. The Blichmann marketing material says the adapter kit will only...

It's possible it's not back to full carb. It has only be back in the fridge under pressure for 2 days. Just hard to tell how much co2 was still in solution from before. I didn't end up fully venting the keg. Just let enough out so it was no longer explosive, but there was still co2 in there. I'm...

Thanks for the helpful info. I think you were spot on and after thawing and venting the keg is back in the fridge and back under pressure and beer tastes ok. It tastes a bit sweeter than before which is interesting, almost like some of the hop bitterness fell out because of the freeze. Drinkable...

Hi All, For the first time recently I had a newly filled keg freeze on me in the beer fridge. It was the one stuffed furthest in the back up against the coils and I guess there wasn't sufficient air flow so it froze. I took it out and tried to vent the CO2 through the pressure release valve to...

My point was in the context of his post but I was u clear in that regard. I simply meant that the amount of kettle caramelization that will occur in a large volume of wort over 90 mins (posters timeframe) vs a typical 60 mins is pretty inconsequential and not likely to effect color in any...

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