Recent content by ericwilson9

I have a pumpkin ale in the fermenter but I've been talking to a coworker about the concept of a persimmon saison. Plan on splitting a 10 gallon batch between that and a Brett saison that I've been itching to do for a while.

Bigger setup you say? See if she still wants another kid after you give her the price of your future 10 barrel brew system with multiple fermenters and bright tanks. Truthfully, I second 8rnw8's comment.

With those temperatures I would attribute it to inadequate oxygenation prior to fermentation

I'm assuming these are 6.5 gallon buckets? If so simple solution may be to pour some of bucket 1 into bucket 2 and then pour some back into bucket 1. Do this multiple times and keep mixing each bucket up and you could assume that there is a proficient amount of yeast present in each batch

Overall sounds good and I don't think you missed anything either. Just curious, any particular reason you are starting with a kettle sour rather than traditional sour?

Yea forgot to forewarn that all breweries in MT stop serving at 8 and you can only have 3 beers... Damn liquor laws...

Craft beer cellar by the mall has a decent variety of local beer. There are also a couple grocery stores with good local beer selections (Rosaurs or town and country on 11th ave). You won't find much for local wines just FYI. Here are some of my personal favorites: 1. Madison River - hop juice...

Another thing to look into is acidulated malt. Essentially it's malt that has been sprayed with lactic acid before drying. I have used a small portion while mashing to add a nice acidic/tart flavor to a quick gose recipe. Adding lactic acid is a decent option for souring but I would recommend...

You mentioned that you pulled the sample out of the mash. I would be concerned with possible contamination because the wort has not yet been boiled and may have some living bacteria in it. Other than that, I have pulled samples from the beginning of the boil and used this method relatively...

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I would side towards a kit from kegconnections. They can give you a lot of options and they also allow you to remove things from the kit and thus lower the price. I just finished my keezer build about a month ago and I bought quite a few different parts from various websites to save money...

I've been spending a lot of time in the kegerators and keezer forum in the past month and finally finished my keezer build. I live in a smaller apartment at the moment so I couldn't go too large (although I really wanted too), so I found a GE FCM5SUDWW on craigslist and built a three tap...