Recent content by brent1769

Today is Thursday and because of that the blood of unicorn is highly priced.

So where I live there are plenty of breweries Only problem is most places will NOT fill blank growls. And the way the roads here are set up it can take 15-30 minutes just to get to a brewery 4 miles down the road. I want to open a growl house. Much like a tap house/room where I can bring as...

Actually I am considering the chemistry. Because mashing the grains converts starches to sugars which the yeast turns into alcohol. Basic knowledge. Boiling is to sanitize and extra the oils for hops. At no point does boiling do anything else! What boiling will do is Caramelize the sugars which...

It would be purely for for trying to change taste get a different end result. Think of it like bread. Fresh out of the bag taste one way Toasted tastes another way. Burnt tastes different too. Just thinking of different ways to get different flavors

I was thinking you could extract the bitterness of hops buy boiling in a quart of water or maybe a different amount than adding that water to the rest of the wort.

Just a curious question could you do a partial mash no boil.... Or more of a minimum boil? Use small amount of water for specialty grain boil to get flavors and color. Is dme and lme sterile? If using corn sugar to increase volume. Could you use a small amount of water to boil like when using...

Ok this is what I did. And everything turned out great so far. I did a 3 gallon mash 1 gallon sparge. 3lbs dme Along with 1 lbs corn sugar My target gravity was 1.079 and I got 1.070

Ignore my last post it was I was trying to cancel my post but it posted

I wish I would if read this before I made my batch. That would of been really good to know. I will say I got pretty lucky than because my target

I have a 5 gallon pot

Thanks. I think I'll give that a try. Appreciate the help

I'm doing a biab partial mash. I need help with water amount. I want to have 5 gallons in the fermenter. 6lb 2-row 1lb aromatic malt 1lb caramel/crystal 60L 3lb Amber DME What would I need for the mash /sparge? This is my second batch so still learning.

I was looking into some ways to upgrade my system without going broke or making the wife mad. I can across some polyethylene food barrels. I was thinking about using it for a mash tun at first but it it's only rated for up to 120°F so I thought it would be perfect to turn into a fermenter. With...

So good news. i checked my gravity again its right where I want it and 1.014 Taste is nice and drinkable. being that the beer is room temp and not carbonated. i got lucky with this one.

Thanks guys for the input. yeah I agree it is a learning process indeed. I'm going to let the beer sit for another week "hoping" for the best and that it will at least be drinkable. if it doesn't the taste i was going for oh well as long as i can drink it. I think ill invest in "The joys of...