Recent content by Christaum

So heres what happened, I got to brewing a dry oatmeal stout, brewed around 11 gallons, and after the boil I added about 2,5 gallons of boiled and cooled water. I added this right after boiling so it would speed up my wort cooling. Got it at a OG of 1.046. Today (5 daya later) the air lock...

I´ve been searching for threads on diluting a high gravity wort BEFORE fermentation. All i´m finding is dilution after fermentation. Has anyone tried it before? The reason I want to try this, is because I have a larger fermenter capacity (70 L), and a smaller mash tun (50L). I was thinking...

Well, its been 2 months, and what happened to the beer is that it got a bit tanic. After the first month, you would get that strong heat as it went down, as if you were drinking a glass of whiskey. About, 2 weeks later, that began to disappear, and now, its not observable any more. So if...

Hello fellow brewers, Yesterday I made a very stupid mistake. After having a perfect mash, I began to recirculate the wort. Around 30 minutes passed and I noticed the grains weren't settling to the bottom of the mash tun (yeah, it took me that long. Dont drink and brew). I then saw that I...