Recent content by foobert

Why wait 10-days to turn the gas on?

OK folks, I need some help on this one. After 3.5 weeks in primary and then a few days in the fridge prior to kegging, the taste had what I think is an estery/fussil aftertaste (I'm not really sure how to describe the flavor). It was not a clean finish as I'd expected from a Kolsh yeast. Is...

I have a bag of RAHR 2-row that I plan to use for the base malt instead of the Maris Otter pale malt. I'm reading that the Maris Otter has a bit more "biscuit" character to it compared to a generic 2-row. Any thoughts on adding anything else to make up for the difference in these base malts...

Oddly enough, both the S-04 and S-05 finished out at a 1.020 gravity. A bit higher than I had expected (especially for the 05), but, not too far off Yuri's estimation. The S-05 version tastes a bit drier, but, the S-04 tastes better coming out of secondary. We'll see how they settle out after...

If you add during the boil (as suggested), you'll end up with a heap of trub that will likely be difficult draw down efficiently -- I'd add some extra allowance for that. If you add during the mash, I think the pumpkin is fairly water neutral after the sparge. In my case I forgot to account...

Well, I ended up dumping half of my 10-gallon batch over the S-05 yeast cake, and pitched S-04 over the other half. Will report back on the differences. For my 10G batch, I mostly followed a 2/3rds scaling of the AG version Yuri has at the beginning of this thread, with the following major...

Any thoughts on using Safeale S-05 yeast with this? I've got a yeast cake I can dump it on top of, and hate to waste it unless it's going to make a detrimental difference...

Tiger -- That sounds very similar to my first experience brewing this recipe. 2 days and the airlock went flat. I just let it go for another week, took a gravity reading and it was 1.008 -- DONE! BierMuncher -- Thanks for the great recipe! It has the distinction of 1) my first hack at...