Recent content by cygnus2048

For the Sour starter I use DME and for the yeast starter I draw off some sour mash liquid from the kettle. In either case I just boil for 10min before adding the grain for sour starter or yeast for yeast starter. I do not use a stir plate for the sour starter (I do for the yeast starter)...

I've had fantastic results with my sour mashing. I've made my Berliner Weisse twice and both times it's been great. I'm still not sure if I'm dissolving lots of Al during the sour mash but my kettle is well oxidized and I never scrub it so I think it's all fine. Regarding the sour mash...

I'm about to brew a Berliner Weisse using a sour mash for the first time and since I brew with BIAB I plan to leave the souring mash in the kettle for up to three days. My kettle is aluminum and I'm concerned about the sour mash reacting with the Al. I'm not worried with Al dissolving in...

I think you'll find that your ABV is higher than you think. Don't forget that the OG does not include the muscat concentrate. From information I found it should add about 17pts in 5gal. Including this your ABV calculations yield a value around 11%. Your results seems similar to mine. If the...

Hello fellow homebrewers. I've been brewing now for about 2.5 years but always using others recipes. I've taken a Milk Stout recipe and made some changes to it to accommodate my inventory and what I think would be good. I've listed the ingredients below. I would appreciate any...

It's not the muscat that the recipe calls for but it appears to be an equivalent grape concentrate made for wine. I suspect you will be fine with this. Let us know how it turns out.

I'm pretty sure the recipe is for LME. If you look back at one of my previous posts I used LME and even though the final gravity is lower than what is listed, if you then add in that from the muscat addition I pretty much nailed it dead-on. I ended up with a much dryer product than the real...

I think the recipe in Extreme brewing is for Liquid malt extract. If you are using DME I think you should multiply by 0.8. I finally tasted mine tonight after two weeks bottle conditioning. I did a side-by-side comparison with a genuine 2010 Midas and I must admit I was disappointed. While...

Hello guys, new to this forum but have been brewing for a little over a year now. Midas is one of my favorite beers and finally gave it a try about a month ago. I thought I would share my results. I used the recipe verbatim from the Extreme Brewing book and all my SG's here are shown temp...