Recent content by Deofol

Well, I had good ambitions, but with work, the economy (which means more work), and the new born, I've not been able to do anything with this. In fact I haven't had time to brew in 4 months. :\

I have it recored. LOVE F1! Unfortunately I know the ending, but I'll still watch it. It's hard to read auto blogs and not have some blog post an image if the finish. /sigh

Dude, I laughed my ass off. Glad you're ok! But you have a good way with words. lol

Really? So you want oxygen? Could you also just add a foam stopper instead of an airlock? At this point this batch is entirely for experimentation, I prefer it end up something desirable, as the SWMABO would prefer it. ;)

Really? I read the opposite, that StarSan would kill brett but Iodophor would not. So I'm confused. The only thing I've seen as a reference is that the Wikipedia page says that Sulphur Dioxide (S02) is known to kill it, but that is a gas, so not sure how you would use it. I've been really...

Here is my Winter warmer that I aged in an oak barrel for a week. Two days after racking to secondary I had this. Brettanomyces picked up from the barrel and under the microscope at 400x I have another thread about it, but it seems to fit this thread too. Just goes to show, not all...

OK at lunch I got some better pics (see origional post) and got a 25ml sample to try. Smell is normal, alcohol (it is near 9% after all), oak, special spices, wintery, a hint of sourish-ness but not harsh. Overall, nothing taste or smells out of whack, pretty much like I expected it to taste...

As noted in this previous thread (Oak Barrel - 20L) I acquired an oak barrel to age half of my Winter Warmer ale this year to give it that Extra Special Reserve kind of a kick. Well it appears, using the oak barrel, I got more than I bargained for! Brett Pellicle? This year I did a 10...

I'm just starting out now, but so far so good. I read other have had good results. I'll be logging my experiences with it in my blog. So only time will tell. :P

This thread kind of inspired me to keep a on going blog about all of this. Instead of hogging this forum with all my little updates, I'll quietly move on to that. So if any of this interest you, please visit me there! The link is in my signature!

I'm doing something very similar but using sterile water storage. Sterile Distilled Water Yeast Storage You can find autoclavable vials here pretty cheap (along with everything else lab wise). http://www.cynmar.com/SearchByKeyword.aspx?word=autoclavable

Those are just a wort (Water, DME, and a little yeast nutrient). I was using those to capture samples from bottles. Basically I added 15ml of wort to each tube, and then inoculated them with the dregs off the bottom of a bottle of craft beer using a inoculating loop. After a couple of days...

I second the use of Potassium metabisulfite. Thats what I use to sanitize and keep my oak barrel hydrated in between beers (1/4 tsp per 5gallons water, or 1tsp per 500ml water as a sanitizer you can spray and wipe). I've even used it to kill an infection on an aging/maturing beer. But you have...

Held the camera lens up to the eye piece and turned off the flash. Works pretty good.

It's been a lot of fun so far. I do have a Gram stain kit coming and some more glassware and plastic ware. It should be here tomorrow. Last night I finished setting up the other half of my brew closet set up as a lab. So now I have a permanent place to work from. I still have the samples from...