Recent content by CyberErik

What beer did you put it into?

someone in another thread raised this point- there's alcohol in the beer at that point, if you do it at secondary, the alcohol in the beer should take care of the extraction, as well as ward off contamination. I would probably add the spices dry to secondary.

anyone else try this? what sort of ale would this go with?

is it possible that the yeast smell of esters themselves and will settle out of the beer?

one more piece of information: this sample was taken after 2 weeks in primary. I bottled half of it and racked half of it into a secondary with coffee and bourbon oak.

I've found a lot of websites and blog posts and stuff that say banana taste fades over time with conditioning and that they are a common early product.

Pitched dry yeast at 78 degrees. 2 Packets of S-05

Hey guys, I was bottling my stout this evening and I had the bottles soaking in sanitizer. Since I did not have a large vessel to dump the solution into, I began dumping the sanitizer into the now-empty fermentation bucket with the yeast cake inside. As I did, obviously the smells inside...

As I count, it looks about 20 per ounce in that above container.

I don't own a scale, to the above poster- and I need to do this ASAP, so I need an approximate answer.

to possibly help, here is a photo

I can't find the packaging from LHBS where I bought the oak chips. They have been sitting in bourbon since May 1st. Recipe calls for 1 oz, but I can't figure out how many chips = 1 oz. I think I remember the package being 4 oz. I took about 1/4 of the total chips that I had in bourbon, and it...

This product uses hydrogen peroxide to clean and, apparently, sanitize. http://www.ecologiccleansers.com/one-step.php Their website says that it can't be called a sanitizer because they never went through the scientific rigors or expense to get called a sanitizer. The product pages on...

I used to use bleach to sanitize. However, my fellow homebrewer friend recently moved cross country and had to travel light. He sold me his brewing equipment for pennies on the dollar so that I could double up on equipment. Among the equipment was this agent for cleaning/sanitizing...